What does dol.gov track?
Before any consent, dol.gov loaded 5 tracking companies and set 9 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.dol.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 9
- Third-party hosts
- 19
- Cookies in total
- 14
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- X (Twitter)4 requestsSocial media
platform.twitter.com, syndication.twitter.com
- Google Analytics15 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com, www.google-analytics.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)3 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
- Siteimprove2 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 6313124.global.r2.siteimproveanalytics.io
- Crazy Egg1 requestAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | dol.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_8D6G2LK2BW | Analytics | dol.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_988WLCRHJJ | Analytics | dol.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | dol.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_HZ8Y6WJF2K | Analytics | dol.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_LTGX1LSENR | Analytics | dol.gov | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-175033420-4 | Analytics | dol.gov | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | dol.gov | 1 day |
| nmstat | Analytics | dol.gov | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| RT | Functional | dol.gov | 7 days |
| bm_lso | Necessary | www.dol.gov | 30 days |
| bm_s | Necessary | dol.gov | 31 days |
| bm_so | Necessary | dol.gov | 1 day |
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
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- 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.