What does dhs.gov track?
Before any consent, dhs.gov loaded 5 tracking companies and set 13 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 www.dhs.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 13
- Third-party hosts
- 19
- Cookies in total
- 17
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 analytics companies.
- Google Ads6 requestsAdvertising
www.googleadservices.com, ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- YouTube2 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- Google Analytics21 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com, region1.google-analytics.com, www.google-analytics.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
- Siteimprove2 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 6342107.global.r2.siteimproveanalytics.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
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 |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | dhs.gov | 3 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | dhs.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_5YY8Y4R5TC | Analytics | dhs.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | dhs.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_GHG7XR2CMP | Analytics | dhs.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_X7LCTSTP70 | Analytics | dhs.gov | 13 months |
| _gat | Analytics | dhs.gov | Under a day |
| _gat_gtag_UA_32318423_1 | Analytics | dhs.gov | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | dhs.gov | 1 day |
| nmstat | Analytics | dhs.gov | 13 months |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | dhs.gov | Under a day |
| RT | Functional | www.dhs.gov | 7 days |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.