What does ct.gov track?
Before any consent, ct.gov loaded 5 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading portal.ct.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Adobe55 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Pingdom2 requestsAnalytics
rum-static.pingdom.net, rum-collector-2.pingdom.net
- Hotjar2 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ipmeta.io2 requestsUnclassified
ipmeta.io
- Google10 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, www.gstatic.com, translate.google.com, translate.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | ct.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_89NN4475GK | Analytics | ct.gov | 13 months |
| high-contrast | Unclassified | ct.gov | 7 days |
| SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE | Unclassified | portal.ct.gov | 13 months |
| shell#lang | Unclassified | portal.ct.gov | Session |
| sxa_site | Unclassified | portal.ct.gov | Session |
| _hjSession_218205 | Functional | ct.gov | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_218205 | Functional | ct.gov | 12 months |
| ARRAffinity | Functional | portal.ct.gov | Session |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Functional | portal.ct.gov | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Functional | portal.ct.gov | Session |
The page also wrote 2 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.