What does umd.edu track?
Before any consent, umd.edu loaded 3 tracking companies and set 6 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading umd.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 10
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Hotjar3 requestsAnalytics
script.hotjar.com, static.hotjar.com
- Siteimprove2 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 90779855.global.siteimproveanalytics.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- svdcdn.com15 requestsUnclassified
umd-main.transforms.svdcdn.com, umd-main.files.svdcdn.com
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
d3tv0kpcim3xds.cloudfront.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 | umd.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_GYM82Z681N | Analytics | umd.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_RQC4EESGS6 | Analytics | umd.edu | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-48344270-2 | Analytics | umd.edu | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | umd.edu | 1 day |
| nmstat | Analytics | umd.edu | 13 months |
| _hjSession_3609113 | Functional | umd.edu | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_3609113 | Functional | umd.edu | 12 months |
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.