What does ucsc.edu track?
Before any consent, ucsc.edu loaded 7 tracking companies and set 6 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 www.ucsc.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 18
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
googleads.g.doubleclick.net, static.doubleclick.net
- YouTube9 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com, i.ytimg.com
- New Relic6 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Siteimprove2 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, {account_id}.global.siteimproveanalytics.io
- Crazy Egg2 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
- Plausible1 requestAnalytics
plausible.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- netlify.app7 requestsUnclassified
ucsc-truss.netlify.app, ucsc-webassets.netlify.app
- Google5 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com, www.google.com, jnn-pa.googleapis.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | ucsc.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_BWJ4Z4Y66X | Analytics | ucsc.edu | 13 months |
| nmstat | Analytics | ucsc.edu | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | www.ucsc.edu | Under a day |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | ucsc.edu | 12 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
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.