What does cornell.edu track?
Before any consent, cornell.edu loaded 3 tracking companies and set 9 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.cornell.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 9
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Adobe68 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net
- Google Analytics13 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, ssl.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Siteimprove3 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 6120104.global.siteimproveanalytics.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Kaltura4 requestsFunctional
cdnsecakmi.kaltura.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
ajax.googleapis.com
- Cloudflare2 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was __utma, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __utma | Analytics | www.cornell.edu | 13 months |
| __utmb | Analytics | www.cornell.edu | Under a day |
| __utmc | Analytics | www.cornell.edu | Session |
| __utmt | Analytics | www.cornell.edu | Under a day |
| __utmz | Analytics | www.cornell.edu | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | cornell.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_PMZ19X3F8W | Analytics | cornell.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_XJK3YSJ0LV | Analytics | cornell.edu | 13 months |
| nmstat | Analytics | cornell.edu | 13 months |
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.