What does gatech.edu track?
Before any consent, gatech.edu loaded 3 tracking companies and set 2 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.gatech.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 12
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
region1.google-analytics.com, www.googletagmanager.com
- Microsoft Clarity3 requestsAnalytics
www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms, j.clarity.ms
- Adobe2 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- usablenet.com2 requestsUnclassified
a40.usablenet.com
- Google6 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- Cloudflare21 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- jsDelivr2 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
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 | gatech.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_L3KDESR6P8 | Analytics | gatech.edu | 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.