What does canada.ca track?
Before any consent, canada.ca loaded 1 tracking company and set 10 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.canada.ca once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 10
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 20
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Adobe9 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com, dpm.demdex.net, canada.demdex.net, cm.everesttech.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_A90F2A0D55423F537F000101%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_A90F2A0D55423F537F000101%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | canada.ca | 13 months |
| AMCVS_A90F2A0D55423F537F000101%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | canada.ca | Session |
| demdex | Advertising | demdex.net (third party) | 6 months |
| dpm | Advertising | dpm.demdex.net (third party) | 6 months |
| everest_g_v2 | Advertising | everesttech.net (third party) | 12 months |
| mbox | Advertising | canada.ca | 13 months |
| s_cc | Analytics | canada.ca | Session |
| s_plt | Analytics | canada.ca | Session |
| s_ppv | Analytics | canada.ca | Session |
| s_tp | Analytics | canada.ca | Session |
| aka-ca-site-token | Unclassified | www.canada.ca | Session |
| DomComplete | Unclassified | www.canada.ca | Session |
| gpv_pc | Unclassified | canada.ca | Session |
| gpv_pqs | Unclassified | canada.ca | Session |
| gpv_pt | Unclassified | canada.ca | Session |
| gpv_pthl | Unclassified | canada.ca | Session |
| gpv_url | Unclassified | canada.ca | Session |
| s_ips | Unclassified | canada.ca | Session |
| at_check | Functional | canada.ca | Session |
| RT | Functional | canada.ca | 7 days |
The page also wrote 4 keys 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.