What does ftc.gov track?
Before any consent, ftc.gov loaded 2 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.ftc.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.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, fonts.googleapis.com
- AddToAny3 requestsFunctional
static.addtoany.com
- USA.gov (Search.gov)1 requestFunctional
search.usa.gov
- Vimeo1 requestFunctional
extend.vimeocdn.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 | ftc.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_B59RVWNH5N | Analytics | ftc.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | ftc.gov | 13 months |
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.