What does brookings.edu track?
Before any consent, brookings.edu loaded 4 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.brookings.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
The page loaded Osano, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Parse.ly2 requestsAnalytics
experiments.parsely.com, cdn.parsely.com
- HubSpot1 requestAnalytics
js.hs-scripts.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Osano1 requestConsent banner
cmp.osano.com
- Google13 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- WordPress.com1 requestFunctional
stats.wp.com
- jsDelivr3 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-scripts.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _cfuvid | Functional | brookings.edu | Session |
The page also wrote 1 key to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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.