What does clemson.edu track?
Before any consent, clemson.edu loaded 8 tracking companies and set 9 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 89% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.clemson.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 8
- Tracking cookies
- 9
- Third-party hosts
- 25
- Cookies in total
- 15
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- The Trade Desk10 requestsAdvertising
js.adsrvr.org, insight.adsrvr.org, match.adsrvr.org
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- YouTube20 requestsSocial media
www.youtube-nocookie.com, www.youtube.com, i.ytimg.com
- Snap6 requestsSocial media
tr.snapchat.com, sc-static.net, tr6.snapchat.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Adobe32 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Microsoft Clarity5 requestsAnalytics
u.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google9 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com, www.gstatic.com, jnn-pa.googleapis.com
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _fbp | Advertising | clemson.edu | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | clemson.edu | 3 months |
| _scid | Advertising | clemson.edu | 13 months |
| _scid_r | Advertising | clemson.edu | 13 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | clemson.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_QCHBS4YQTH | Analytics | clemson.edu | 13 months |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| AWSALB | Functional | events.clemson.edu | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | events.clemson.edu | 7 days |
| BIGipServerwww.clemson.edu_https_pool | Functional | www.clemson.edu | Session |
| X-AB | Functional | sc-static.net (third party) | 1 day |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 5 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.