What does ed.gov track?
Before any consent, ed.gov loaded 3 tracking companies and set 3 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.ed.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 7
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Microsoft Clarity5 requestsAnalytics
z.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- US General Services Administration (cloud.gov)2 requestsFunctional
touchpoints.app.cloud.gov
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
cg-1b082c1b-3db7-477f-9ca5-bd51a786b41e.s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 6 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | ed.gov | 6 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | ed.gov | 6 months |
| _ga_TTBYENS3X0 | Analytics | ed.gov | 6 months |
| TiPMix | Functional | www.ed.gov | Under a day |
| x-ms-routing-name | Functional | www.ed.gov | Under a day |
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.