What does usa.gov track?
Before any consent, usa.gov loaded 5 tracking companies and set 4 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.usa.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Qualtrics7 requestsAnalytics
gov1.siteintercept.qualtrics.com, znbabnroqffo1d7xq-cemgsa.gov1.siteintercept.qualtrics.com
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Siteimprove2 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 51567.global.siteimproveanalytics.io
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
- Crazy Egg1 requestAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
s3-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | usa.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_GXFTMLX26S | Analytics | usa.gov | 13 months |
| nmstat | Analytics | usa.gov | 13 months |
| QSI_HistorySession | Analytics | www.usa.gov | Session |
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.