What does archives.gov track?
Before any consent, archives.gov loaded 3 tracking companies and set 11 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.archives.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 11
- Third-party hosts
- 8
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics15 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Crazy Egg4 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ce.s | Analytics | archives.gov | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | archives.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_0KHCNR6KSZ | Analytics | archives.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | archives.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_NPRSVNG84W | Analytics | archives.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_Z0BESEZFL2 | Analytics | archives.gov | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-114045448-1 | Analytics | archives.gov | Under a day |
| _gat_UA-17592594-8 | Analytics | archives.gov | Under a day |
| _gat_UA-182127501-1 | Analytics | archives.gov | Under a day |
| _gat_UA-72079228-1 | Analytics | archives.gov | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | archives.gov | 1 day |
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.