What does propublica.org track?
Before any consent, propublica.org loaded 5 tracking companies and set 7 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.propublica.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 21
- Cookies in total
- 15
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Convert4 requestsAnalytics
cdn-4.convertexperiments.com, 1004714.metrics.convertexperiments.com, logs.convertexperiments.com
- Parse.ly3 requestsAnalytics
cdn.parsely.com, api.parsely.com, p1.parsely.com
- Sailthru2 requestsAnalytics
ak.sail-horizon.com, api.sail-personalize.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- iteratehq.com3 requestsUnclassified
platform.iteratehq.com, iteratehq.com
- trueanthem.com2 requestsUnclassified
static.trueanthem.com
- Google11 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, www.gstatic.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- WordPress.com2 requestsFunctional
stats.wp.com, pixel.wp.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sailthru_content | Advertising | www.propublica.org | 12 months |
| sailthru_pageviews | Advertising | www.propublica.org | Under a day |
| sailthru_visitor | Advertising | www.propublica.org | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | propublica.org | 13 months |
| _ga_K9RW8M6GL5 | Analytics | propublica.org | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-3742720-1 | Analytics | propublica.org | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | propublica.org | 1 day |
| iter_id | Unclassified | propublica.org | 13 months |
| pp_cta_last_viewed | Unclassified | propublica.org | Session |
| ppfun | Unclassified | propublica.org | 4 months |
| _conv_s | Functional | propublica.org | Under a day |
| _conv_v | Functional | propublica.org | 6 months |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Functional | www.google.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _parsely_session | Functional | propublica.org | Under a day |
| _parsely_visitor | Functional | propublica.org | 13 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.