What does census.gov track?

Before any consent, census.gov loaded 4 tracking companies and set 14 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.census.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan

Tracking companies: 4
Tracking cookies: 14
Third-party hosts: 13
Cookies in total: 38

Consent banner

No known consent management platform was detected on the page.

Companies contacted before consent

4 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.

Adobe
assets.adobedtm.com, dpm.demdex.net, uscensusbureau.demdex.net, cm.everesttech.net
9 requestsAnalytics
Google Analytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
6 requestsAnalytics
Cloudflare Web Analytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
3 requestsAnalytics
Digital Analytics Program (DAP)
dap.digitalgov.gov
2 requestsAnalytics

Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)

tableau.com
public.tableau.com
1 requestUnclassified
Google
fonts.googleapis.com, www.google.com, www.gstatic.com, fonts.gstatic.com
5 requestsFunctional

Cookies set before consent

The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_3BE068F454E7806E0A4C98A6%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.

Cookie	Purpose	Set by	Lasts
AMCV_3BE068F454E7806E0A4C98A6%40AdobeOrg	Advertising	census.gov	13 months
AMCVS_3BE068F454E7806E0A4C98A6%40AdobeOrg	Advertising	census.gov	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
visitor	Advertising	www.census.gov	12 months
_ga	Analytics	census.gov	13 months
_ga_CSLL4ZEK4L	Analytics	census.gov	13 months
_ga_VY5XG9XWGG	Analytics	census.gov	13 months
s_cc	Analytics	census.gov	Session
s_ivc	Analytics	census.gov	Under a day
s_ppv	Analytics	census.gov	Session
s_tp	Analytics	census.gov	Session
s_tslv	Analytics	census.gov	13 months
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
dateLastVisited	Unclassified	www.census.gov	12 months
K755t7m	Unclassified	www.census.gov	Session
s_inv	Unclassified	census.gov	Under a day
s_ips	Unclassified	census.gov	Session
s_nr60	Unclassified	census.gov	2 months
s_vnc60	Unclassified	census.gov	2 months
visitNumber	Unclassified	www.census.gov	12 months
__cf_bm	Functional	data.census.gov	Under a day
__cf_bm	Functional	www.census.gov	Under a day
_cfuvid	Functional	www.census.gov	Session
cf_clearance	Functional	www.census.gov	12 months
TS01a30f36	Functional	www.census.gov	Session

The page also wrote 3 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.

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