What does fcc.gov track?
Before any consent, fcc.gov loaded 1 tracking company and set 7 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.fcc.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 9
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 functional companies.
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- audioeye.com13 requestsUnclassified
wsv3cdn.audioeye.com, wsmcdn.audioeye.com, analytics.audioeye.com
- Google6 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- AddToAny3 requestsFunctional
static.addtoany.com
- Font Awesome2 requestsContent delivery
use.fontawesome.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 | fcc.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_BGN1RLF2CV | Analytics | fcc.gov | 13 months |
| dtCookie | Analytics | fcc.gov | Session |
| dtPC | Analytics | fcc.gov | Session |
| dtSa | Analytics | fcc.gov | Session |
| rxVisitor | Analytics | fcc.gov | Session |
| rxvt | Analytics | fcc.gov | Session |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | fcc.gov | Under a day |
| bm_sv | Functional | fcc.gov | Under a day |
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.