What does ssa.gov track?
Before any consent, ssa.gov loaded 4 tracking companies and set 3 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.ssa.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- New Relic3 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | ssa.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | ssa.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_VSSTFV3FKR | Analytics | ssa.gov | 13 months |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | ssa.gov | Under a day |
| RT | Functional | www.ssa.gov | 7 days |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.