What does si.edu track?
Before any consent, si.edu loaded 7 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.si.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 22
- Cookies in total
- 17
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Microsoft Advertising4 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com, bat.bing.net
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Adobe14 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Microsoft Clarity4 requestsAnalytics
i.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Cloudflare Web Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- verint-cdn.com9 requestsUnclassified
ucm-us.verint-cdn.com
- smithsonian.museum3 requestsUnclassified
logs1.smithsonian.museum
- Fundraise Up29 requestsFunctional
static.fundraiseup.com, cdn.fundraiseup.com, fndrsp.net
- Google13 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, www.gstatic.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- jsDelivr6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | si.edu | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | si.edu | 3 months |
| _ga | Analytics | si.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_ENWSWPLJYD | Analytics | si.edu | 13 months |
| ACOOKIE | Unclassified | logs1.smithsonian.museum (third party) | 13 months |
| fundraiseup_cid | Unclassified | si.edu | 13 months |
| fundraiseup_func | Unclassified | si.edu | Session |
| fundraiseup_stat | Unclassified | si.edu | Session |
| TS7013e7b2027 | Unclassified | www.si.edu | Session |
| TSe97c3f71029 | Unclassified | www.si.edu | Under a day |
| uws_rate_comparators | Unclassified | si.edu | Under a day |
| uws_session | Unclassified | si.edu | Under a day |
| uws_storage | Unclassified | si.edu | 7 days |
| uws_visitor | Unclassified | si.edu | 7 days |
| WT_FPC | Unclassified | si.edu | 13 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | www.si.edu | 12 months |
| TS019d35c9 | Functional | si.edu | Session |
The page also wrote 4 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.