What does itu.int track?
Before any consent, itu.int loaded 4 tracking companies and set 6 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.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads8 requestsAdvertising
ep2.adtrafficquality.google, ep1.adtrafficquality.google, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Oracle Advertising1 requestAdvertising
s7.addthis.com
- Hotjar10 requestsAnalytics
script.hotjar.com, static.hotjar.com, surveystats.hotjar.io
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
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 | itu.int | 13 months |
| _ga_T69008QZXS | Analytics | itu.int | 13 months |
| _ga_X521SCRNMQ | Analytics | itu.int | 13 months |
| _gat_gtag_UA_121074739_1 | Analytics | itu.int | Under a day |
| _gat_UA-121074739-1 | Analytics | itu.int | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | itu.int | 1 day |
| TScb06847e027 | Unclassified | www.itu.int | Session |
| WSS_FullScreenMode | Unclassified | www.itu.int | Session |
| _hjSession_768571 | Functional | itu.int | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_768571 | Functional | itu.int | 12 months |
| BIGipServera+HD4Pssz5sidDOF9oMUZw | Functional | www.itu.int | Session |
| TS010592a8 | Functional | www.itu.int | Session |
The page also wrote 3 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.