What does northwestern.edu track?
Before any consent, northwestern.edu loaded 1 tracking company and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.northwestern.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 7
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
The page loaded CookieYes, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- gmc-cloud.net2 requestsUnclassified
common.gmc-cloud.net
- CookieYes8 requestsConsent banner
cdn-cookieyes.com, log.cookieyes.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
ajax.googleapis.com
- Amazon Web Services5 requestsContent delivery
dgwlxezajnh25.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ | Unclassified | common.northwestern.edu | Session |
| f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ | Unclassified | common.northwestern.edu | Session |
| f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ | Unclassified | common.northwestern.edu | Session |
| f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ | Unclassified | common.northwestern.edu | Session |
| f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ | Unclassified | common.northwestern.edu | Session |
| f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ | Unclassified | northwestern.edu | Session |
| f5avraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_session_ | Unclassified | www.northwestern.edu | Session |
| BIGipServer~trust-662~pool_evnuinfo_80 | Functional | northwestern.edu | Session |
| BIGipServer~trust-662~pool_evnuinfo_80 | Functional | www.northwestern.edu | Session |
| BIGipServer~trust-662~pool_evnuinfo_80 | Functional | common.northwestern.edu | Session |
| cookieyes-consent | Functional | northwestern.edu | 12 months |
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.