What does uchicago.edu track?
Before any consent, uchicago.edu loaded 5 tracking companies and set 7 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.uchicago.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 19
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics9 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Hotjar3 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com, content.hotjar.io
- Siteimprove2 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 66356295.global.siteimproveanalytics.io
- Mouseflow1 requestAnalytics
cdn.mouseflow.com
- Plausible1 requestAnalytics
plausible.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Font Awesome30 requestsContent delivery
ka-p.fontawesome.com, kit.fontawesome.com
- Amazon Web Services14 requestsContent delivery
uchicago-brand-fonts.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | uchicago.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_2V4M4Z833J | Analytics | uchicago.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_DBDWJCS0JR | Analytics | uchicago.edu | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-3572058-26 | Analytics | uchicago.edu | Under a day |
| _gat_UA-373360-31 | Analytics | uchicago.edu | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | uchicago.edu | 1 day |
| nmstat | Analytics | uchicago.edu | 13 months |
| dismissed-alerts | Unclassified | www.uchicago.edu | 13 months |
| SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE | Unclassified | www.uchicago.edu | 13 months |
| shell#lang | Unclassified | www.uchicago.edu | Session |
| sxa_site | Unclassified | www.uchicago.edu | Session |
| www#lang | Unclassified | www.uchicago.edu | Session |
| _hjSession_3545609 | Functional | uchicago.edu | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_3545609 | Functional | uchicago.edu | 12 months |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinity | Functional | www.uchicago.edu | Session |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS | Functional | www.uchicago.edu | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Functional | www.uchicago.edu | Session |
| AWSALB | Functional | events.uchicago.edu | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | events.uchicago.edu | 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
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