What does studentaid.gov track?
Before any consent, studentaid.gov loaded 7 tracking companies and set 13 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 studentaid.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 13
- Third-party hosts
- 21
- Cookies in total
- 48
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 11 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Tealium8 requestsAnalytics
tags.tiqcdn.com
- Medallia8 requestsAnalytics
resources.digital-cloud-gov.medallia.com, analytics-fe.digital-cloud-gov.medallia.com
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Crazy Egg7 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com, tracking.crazyegg.com, pagestates-tracking.crazyegg.com, assets-tracking.crazyegg.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
- Salesforce1 requestAnalytics
fsaocts.my.salesforce.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google13 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Salesforce Sites19 requestsContent delivery
fsaocts.my.site.com, fsaocts.my.salesforce-scrt.com
- Akamai2 requestsContent delivery
s.go-mpulse.net, c.go-mpulse.net
- unpkg1 requestContent delivery
unpkg.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ce.clock_data | Analytics | studentaid.gov | 1 day |
| _ce.s | Analytics | studentaid.gov | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | studentaid.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_2TVXCHEG31 | Analytics | studentaid.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | studentaid.gov | 13 months |
| cebs | Analytics | studentaid.gov | Session |
| cebsp_ | Analytics | studentaid.gov | Session |
| dtCookie | Analytics | studentaid.gov | Session |
| dtPC | Analytics | studentaid.gov | Session |
| dtSa | Analytics | studentaid.gov | Session |
| LSKey-c$CookieConsentPolicy | Analytics | fsaocts.my.salesforce.com (third party) | 12 months |
| rxVisitor | Analytics | studentaid.gov | Session |
| rxvt | Analytics | studentaid.gov | Session |
| akaalb_prod_dcc_app_alb | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| akaalb_prod_dcc_user_alb | Unclassified | user-api.studentaid.gov | Session |
| akavpau_wr | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| ConfiguredSelection | Unclassified | studentaid.gov | Session |
| _abck | Functional | studentaid.gov | 12 months |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
| bm_sv | Functional | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
| BrowserId | Functional | salesforce.com (third party) | 12 months |
| CookieConsentPolicy | Functional | fsaocts.my.salesforce.com (third party) | 12 months |
| RT | Functional | studentaid.gov | 7 days |
| utag_main__pn | Functional | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
| utag_main__se | Functional | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
| utag_main__sn | Functional | studentaid.gov | 12 months |
| utag_main__ss | Functional | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
| utag_main__st | Functional | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
| utag_main_ses_id | Functional | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
| bm_mi | Necessary | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
| bm_sz | Necessary | studentaid.gov | Under a day |
The page also wrote 12 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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