What does msu.edu track?
Before any consent, msu.edu loaded 10 tracking companies and set 17 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 92% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading msu.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 10
- Tracking cookies
- 17
- Third-party hosts
- 27
- Cookies in total
- 40
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 15 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- The Trade Desk5 requestsAdvertising
js.adsrvr.org, insight.adsrvr.org, match.adsrvr.org
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net
- Snap6 requestsSocial media
tr.snapchat.com, sc-static.net, tr6.snapchat.com
- Meta5 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- YouTube3 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- X (Twitter)3 requestsSocial media
static.ads-twitter.com, t.co, analytics.twitter.com
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Microsoft Clarity4 requestsAnalytics
l.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- BlueConic3 requestsAnalytics
msu.blueconic.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- sitecorecontenthub.cloud27 requestsUnclassified
msu-p-001.sitecorecontenthub.cloud
- sitecorecloud.io15 requestsUnclassified
edge.sitecorecloud.io, edge-platform.sitecorecloud.io
- Google1 requestFunctional
www.google.com
- Cloudflare8 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- Google Cloud1 requestContent delivery
mpc2-prod-23-is5qnl632q-ue.a.run.app
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was BCSessionID, from BlueConic, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _fbp | Advertising | msu.edu | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | msu.edu | 3 months |
| _scid | Advertising | msu.edu | 13 months |
| _scid_r | Advertising | msu.edu | 13 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| BCSessionID | Advertising | msu.blueconic.net (third party) | 13 months |
| BCSessionID | Advertising | i647.msu.edu | 13 months |
| BCSessionID | Advertising | msu.edu | Session |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| muc_ads | Advertising | t.co (third party) | 13 months |
| personalization_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | msu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_D7271B6VVJ | Analytics | msu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_EFLDCHXNHH | Analytics | msu.edu | 13 months |
| _hash | Unclassified | explore.msu.edu | 13 months |
| _hashV | Unclassified | explore.msu.edu | 13 months |
| _node | Unclassified | explore.msu.edu | Session |
| _twpid | Unclassified | msu.edu | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | msu.edu | 13 months |
| sc_cid | Unclassified | msu.edu | 13 months |
| sc_site | Unclassified | msu.edu | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | sitecorecloud.io (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | sitecorecontenthub.cloud (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | t.co (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| AWSALB | Functional | i647.msu.edu | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | i647.msu.edu | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | msu.blueconic.net (third party) | 7 days |
| BIGipServermichiganstate.netlifyglobalcdn.com_167610_https_pool | Functional | msu.edu | Session |
| incap_ses_305_2067418 | Functional | msu.edu | Session |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| nlbi_2067418 | Functional | msu.edu | Session |
| visid_incap_2067418 | Functional | msu.edu | 12 months |
| X-AB | Functional | sc-static.net (third party) | 1 day |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 5 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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