What does ncsu.edu track?
Before any consent, ncsu.edu loaded 6 tracking companies and set 9 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 83% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.ncsu.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 9
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 15
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 analytics companies.
- Google Ads7 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, www.googleadservices.com, googleads.g.doubleclick.net
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Microsoft Clarity5 requestsAnalytics
r.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Crazy Egg4 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- pages03.net3 requestsUnclassified
www.pages03.net, www.sc.pages03.net
- Google7 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | ncsu.edu | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | ncsu.edu | 3 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| _ce.s | Analytics | ncsu.edu | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | ncsu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | www.ncsu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_3BCCQK39HR | Analytics | ncsu.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_E68CCDKNRD | Analytics | www.ncsu.edu | 13 months |
| com.silverpop.iMA.page_visit | Unclassified | ncsu.edu | Under a day |
| com.silverpop.iMA.session | Unclassified | ncsu.edu | Under a day |
| com.silverpop.iMAWebCookie | Unclassified | ncsu.edu | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | www.pages03.net (third party) | 7 days |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
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.