What does pewresearch.org track?
Before any consent, pewresearch.org loaded 6 tracking companies and set 0 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.pewresearch.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Meta1 requestSocial media
connect.facebook.net
- Adobe20 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Parse.ly3 requestsAnalytics
cdn.parsely.com, api.parsely.com, p1.parsely.com
- Crazy Egg1 requestAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- nelioabtesting.com2 requestsUnclassified
api.nelioabtesting.com
- WordPress.com2 requestsFunctional
stats.wp.com, pixel.wp.com
- Sentry1 requestFunctional
o4510032606527488.ingest.us.sentry.io
- Cloudflare2 requestsContent delivery
challenges.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| nabAlternative | Unclassified | www.pewresearch.org | 4 months |
| nabSegmentation | Unclassified | www.pewresearch.org | 4 months |
| _parsely_session | Functional | pewresearch.org | Under a day |
| _parsely_visitor | Functional | pewresearch.org | 13 months |
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