What does bu.edu track?
Before any consent, bu.edu loaded 2 tracking companies and set 7 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.bu.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics9 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- New Relic5 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Monotype (Fonts.net)1 requestFunctional
cdn.fonts.net
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | bu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_0Z1EBE5RV7 | Analytics | bu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_GBDN9CZLF7 | Analytics | bu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_HVBYYX9KF6 | Analytics | bu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_TXDQ2GBM72 | Analytics | bu.edu | 13 months |
| FPID | Analytics | bu.edu | 13 months |
| FPLC | Analytics | bu.edu | 1 day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | fonts.net (third party) | Under a day |
| AWSALB | Functional | www.bu.edu | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | www.bu.edu | 7 days |
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.