What does lse.ac.uk track?
Before any consent, lse.ac.uk loaded 2 tracking companies and set 0 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.lse.ac.uk once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 1
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were content delivery companies.
- Google Ads10 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com, ade.googlesyndication.com
- Google Analytics8 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- contensis.com3 requestsUnclassified
api-lse.cloud.contensis.com
- OneTrust12 requestsConsent banner
cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google17 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- jsDelivr2 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- unpkg1 requestContent delivery
unpkg.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| OptanonConsent | Functional | lse.ac.uk | 6 months |
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