What does pa.gov track?
Before any consent, pa.gov loaded 3 tracking companies and set 7 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.pa.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 18
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
The page loaded Osano, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Qualtrics20 requestsAnalytics
siteintercept.qualtrics.com, zn9fwgvx9dqbciucw-codepa.siteintercept.qualtrics.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Adobe2 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com, adobedc.demdex.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- levelaccess.net1 requestUnclassified
cdn.levelaccess.net
- Coveo46 requestsFunctional
static.cloud.coveo.com
- Google13 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com, www.google.com
- ipify1 requestFunctional
api.ipify.org
- Adobe (Scene7)3 requestsContent delivery
s7d9.scene7.com
- jsDelivr2 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_36CD506B6290D6770A495FF4%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | pa.gov | 13 months |
| demdex | Advertising | demdex.net (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | pa.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_2ZGS0W26QS | Analytics | pa.gov | 13 months |
| coveo_visitorId | Analytics | pa.gov | 12 months |
| FPID | Analytics | www.pa.gov | 13 months |
| s_gpv | Analytics | www.pa.gov | Under a day |
| kndctr_36CD506B6290D6770A495FF4_AdobeOrg_cluster | Unclassified | pa.gov | Under a day |
| kndctr_36CD506B6290D6770A495FF4_AdobeOrg… | Unclassified | pa.gov | 13 months |
| affinity | Necessary | www.pa.gov | Session |
The page also wrote 10 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.