What does unl.edu track?

Before any consent, unl.edu loaded 11 tracking companies and set 17 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.unl.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan

Consent banner

No known consent management platform was detected on the page.

6 of the 17 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.

The Trade Desk
js.adsrvr.org, insight.adsrvr.org, match.adsrvr.org
5 requestsAdvertising
Yahoo
s.yimg.com, sp.analytics.yahoo.com
4 requestsAdvertising
Google Ads
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
3 requestsAdvertising
Bombora (IPredictive)
js.ipredictive.com, ad.ipredictive.com
2 requestsAdvertising
Basis Technologies (SiteScout)
pixel-sync.sitescout.com, pixel.sitescout.com
2 requestsAdvertising
MediaMath
pixel.mathtag.com
1 requestAdvertising
Meta
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
7 requestsSocial media
Snap
tr.snapchat.com, sc-static.net, tr6.snapchat.com
6 requestsSocial media
LinkedIn
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
4 requestsSocial media
Google Analytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com, region1.google-analytics.com
11 requestsAnalytics
BlueConic
unl.blueconic.net
3 requestsAnalytics

trkn.us
trkn.us
2 requestsUnclassified
mathjax.org
cdn.mathjax.org
1 requestUnclassified
pixel.ad
up.pixel.ad
1 requestUnclassified
Google
www.google.com
4 requestsFunctional
Cloudflare
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
2 requestsContent delivery
Amazon Web Services
its-unl-cms-prd-s3.s3.amazonaws.com, capi-automation.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
2 requestsContent delivery

The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was BCSessionID, from BlueConic, lasting about 13 months.

Cookie	Purpose	Set by	Lasts
_fbp	Advertising	unl.edu	3 months
_gcl_au	Advertising	unl.edu	3 months
_scid	Advertising	unl.edu	13 months
_scid_r	Advertising	unl.edu	13 months
barometric[cuid]	Advertising	trkn.us (third party)	12 months
bcookie	Advertising	linkedin.com (third party)	12 months
BCSessionID	Advertising	unl.blueconic.net (third party)	13 months
BCSessionID	Advertising	z168.unl.edu	13 months
BCSessionID	Advertising	www.unl.edu	Session
cu	Advertising	ipredictive.com (third party)	12 months
lidc	Advertising	linkedin.com (third party)	1 day
sc_at	Advertising	snapchat.com (third party)	13 months
_ga	Analytics	unl.edu	13 months
_ga_GNJC9KPY9R	Analytics	unl.edu	13 months
_ga_XYGRJGQFZK	Analytics	unl.edu	13 months
_pk_id.1.98ba	Analytics	unl.edu	13 months
_pk_ses.1.98ba	Analytics	unl.edu	Under a day
mediahub	Unclassified	mediahub.unl.edu	Session
UNL_Visitorchat_Session	Unclassified	ucommchat.unl.edu	Under a day
__cf_bm	Functional	linkedin.com (third party)	Under a day
AWSALB	Functional	z168.unl.edu	7 days
AWSALBCORS	Functional	z168.unl.edu	7 days
AWSALBCORS	Functional	unl.blueconic.net (third party)	7 days
li_gc	Functional	linkedin.com (third party)	6 months
X-AB	Functional	sc-static.net (third party)	1 day

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

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