What does nsf.gov track?
Before any consent, nsf.gov loaded 3 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.nsf.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 6
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 Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Crazy Egg4 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- AWS WAF8 requestsFunctional
e6eb454b0e16.edge.sdk.awswaf.com
- US General Services Administration (cloud.gov)4 requestsFunctional
touchpoints.app.cloud.gov
- AddToAny3 requestsFunctional
static.addtoany.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
cg-1b082c1b-3db7-477f-9ca5-bd51a786b41e.s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ce.s | Analytics | nsf.gov | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | nsf.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | nsf.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_YTMBPD5RB8 | Analytics | nsf.gov | 13 months |
| ADRUM_BT | Unclassified | www.nsf.gov | Under a day |
| aws-waf-token | Necessary | www.nsf.gov | 4 days |
The page also wrote 2 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.