What does sydney.edu.au track?

Before any consent, sydney.edu.au loaded 11 tracking companies and set 19 advertising or analytics cookies.

That's more tracking companies than 94% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.

Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.sydney.edu.au once and clicking nothing. How we scan

Consent banner

No known consent management platform was detected on the page.

6 of the 14 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.

Google Ads
ad.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net, cm.g.doubleclick.net
6 requestsAdvertising
Magnite
pixel.rubiconproject.com, sync.search.spotxchange.com
2 requestsAdvertising
Index Exchange
dsum-sec.casalemedia.com
2 requestsAdvertising
Xandr (Microsoft)
ib.adnxs.com
1 requestAdvertising
OpenX
us-u.openx.net
1 requestAdvertising
PubMatic
image2.pubmatic.com
1 requestAdvertising
YouTube
www.youtube.com
2 requestsSocial media
Meta
www.facebook.com
1 requestSocial media
Adobe
sync-tm.everesttech.net, assets.adobedtm.com, dpm.demdex.net, rum.hlx.page
18 requestsAnalytics
Google Analytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
4 requestsAnalytics
Hotjar
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com, vc.hotjar.io
3 requestsAnalytics

The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_35B46472540D9EE20A4C98A6%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.

Cookie	Purpose	Set by	Lasts
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN	Advertising	youtube.com (third party)	6 months
_gcl_au	Advertising	sydney.edu.au	3 months
AMCV_35B46472540D9EE20A4C98A6%40AdobeOrg	Advertising	sydney.edu.au	13 months
AMCVS_35B46472540D9EE20A4C98A6%40AdobeOrg	Advertising	sydney.edu.au	Session
CMID	Advertising	casalemedia.com (third party)	12 months
CMPRO	Advertising	casalemedia.com (third party)	3 months
CMPS	Advertising	casalemedia.com (third party)	3 months
demdex	Advertising	demdex.net (third party)	6 months
dextp	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
s_ecid	Advertising	sydney.edu.au	13 months
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Advertising	youtube.com (third party)	6 months
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA	Advertising	youtube.com (third party)	6 months
_ga	Analytics	sydney.edu.au	13 months
_ga_KXYY9PEVLH	Analytics	sydney.edu.au	13 months
_swb	Analytics	sydney.edu.au	13 months
s_ppv	Analytics	sydney.edu.au	Session
s_tp	Analytics	sydney.edu.au	Session
gpv_Page	Unclassified	sydney.edu.au	Under a day
s_ips	Unclassified	sydney.edu.au	Session
__Secure-YNID	Functional	youtube.com (third party)	6 months
_hjSession_550296	Functional	sydney.edu.au	Under a day
_hjSessionUser_550296	Functional	sydney.edu.au	12 months
AWSALB	Functional	www.sydney.edu.au	7 days
AWSALBCORS	Functional	www.sydney.edu.au	7 days
YSC	Functional	youtube.com (third party)	Session
_ketch_consent_v1_	Necessary	sydney.edu.au	13 months
_swb_consent_	Necessary	sydney.edu.au	7 days

The page also wrote 6 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.

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