What does rfa.org track?
Before any consent, rfa.org loaded 4 tracking companies and set 12 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.rfa.org/english once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 12
- Third-party hosts
- 18
- Cookies in total
- 21
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Yahoo1 requestAdvertising
jadserve.postrelease.com
- Adobe6 requestsAnalytics
dpm.demdex.net, bbg.demdex.net, bbg.sc.omtrdc.net, cm.everesttech.net
- Chartbeat4 requestsAnalytics
static.chartbeat.com, ping.chartbeat.net, mab.chartbeat.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ntv.io1 requestUnclassified
s.ntv.io
- Google4 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Queryly2 requestsFunctional
www.queryly.com
- Arc XP3 requestsContent delivery
cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com, static.themebuilder.aws.arc.pub
- Akamai2 requestsContent delivery
s.go-mpulse.net, c.go-mpulse.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_518ABC7455E462B97F000101%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_518ABC7455E462B97F000101%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | rfa.org | 13 months |
| AMCVS_518ABC7455E462B97F000101%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | rfa.org | Session |
| demdex | Advertising | demdex.net (third party) | 6 months |
| dpm | Advertising | dpm.demdex.net (third party) | 6 months |
| everest_g_v2 | Advertising | everesttech.net (third party) | 12 months |
| opt_out | Advertising | postrelease.com (third party) | 12 months |
| _cb | Analytics | rfa.org | 13 months |
| _cb_svref | Analytics | rfa.org | Under a day |
| _chartbeat2 | Analytics | rfa.org | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | rfa.org | 13 months |
| _ga_5V4D9YVREB | Analytics | rfa.org | 13 months |
| s_cc | Analytics | rfa.org | Session |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | rfa.org | Under a day |
| RT | Functional | www.rfa.org | 7 days |
| utag_main__pn | Functional | rfa.org | Under a day |
| utag_main__se | Functional | rfa.org | Under a day |
| utag_main__sn | Functional | rfa.org | 12 months |
| utag_main__ss | Functional | rfa.org | Under a day |
| utag_main__st | Functional | rfa.org | Under a day |
| utag_main_ses_id | Functional | rfa.org | Under a day |
| utag_main_vapi_domain | Functional | rfa.org | 12 months |
The page also wrote 6 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.