What does stlouisfed.org track?
Before any consent, stlouisfed.org loaded 5 tracking companies and set 9 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.stlouisfed.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 9
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Crazy Egg7 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com, pagestates-tracking.crazyegg.com, assets-tracking.crazyegg.com, tracking.crazyegg.com
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Microsoft Clarity4 requestsAnalytics
l.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Adobe1 requestAnalytics
use.typekit.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google8 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com
- jQuery CDN1 requestContent delivery
code.jquery.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | stlouisfed.org | 3 months |
| _ce.clock_data | Analytics | stlouisfed.org | 1 day |
| _ce.s | Analytics | stlouisfed.org | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | stlouisfed.org | 13 months |
| _ga_MSPJ5D0SE7 | Analytics | stlouisfed.org | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-101449103-3 | Analytics | stlouisfed.org | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | stlouisfed.org | 1 day |
| cebs | Analytics | stlouisfed.org | Session |
| cebsp_ | Analytics | stlouisfed.org | Session |
| _abck | Functional | stlouisfed.org | 12 months |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | stlouisfed.org | Under a day |
| bm_sz | Necessary | stlouisfed.org | Under a day |
The page also wrote 5 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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