What does imf.org track?
Before any consent, imf.org 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.imf.org/en/home once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 13
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 23
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Adobe2 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- sitecorecloud.io3 requestsUnclassified
edge-platform.sitecorecloud.io
- addevent.com1 requestUnclassified
cdn.addevent.com
- verint-cdn.com1 requestUnclassified
ucm-us.verint-cdn.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
fonts.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| _ga | Analytics | imf.org | 13 months |
| _ga_CPJPTDPL31 | Analytics | imf.org | 13 months |
| coveo_visitorId | Analytics | imf.org | 12 months |
| s_cc | Analytics | imf.org | Session |
| s_fid | Analytics | imf.org | 13 months |
| s_invisit | Analytics | imf.org | Under a day |
| s_ppn | Analytics | imf.org | Under a day |
| s_ppv | Analytics | imf.org | Session |
| s_tp | Analytics | imf.org | Session |
| s_vi | Analytics | imf.org | 13 months |
| s_vnum | Analytics | imf.org | 29 days |
| s_ips | Unclassified | imf.org | Session |
| sc_2QX2PS3NaUAiSWe00EIO2 | Unclassified | imf.org | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | sitecorecloud.io (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | imf.org | Under a day |
| bm_sv | Functional | imf.org | Under a day |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| bm_lso | Necessary | www.imf.org | 30 days |
| bm_s | Necessary | imf.org | 31 days |
| bm_so | Necessary | imf.org | 1 day |
The page also wrote 5 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
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- 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.