What does energy.gov track?
Before any consent, energy.gov loaded 4 tracking companies and set 13 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.energy.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 13
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 17
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
googleads.g.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, static.doubleclick.net
- YouTube11 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com, i.ytimg.com
- Google Analytics15 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com, ssl.google-analytics.com, www.google-analytics.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google3 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com, jnn-pa.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | energy.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | energy.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_GS1KB7R8DY | Analytics | energy.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_MFMY1F6D3V | Analytics | energy.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_VEJ5DJ7LND | Analytics | energy.gov | 13 months |
| _gat_gtag_UA_17192165_1 | Analytics | energy.gov | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | energy.gov | 1 day |
| dtCookiedgtcdnr2 | Analytics | energy.gov | Session |
| dtPCdgtcdnr2 | Analytics | energy.gov | Session |
| rxVisitordgtcdnr2 | Analytics | energy.gov | Session |
| dtSadgtcdnr2 | Unclassified | energy.gov | Session |
| rxvtdgtcdnr2 | Unclassified | energy.gov | Session |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
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.