What does usc.edu track?
Before any consent, usc.edu loaded 5 tracking companies and set 0 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 usc.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 16
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
The page loaded CookieYes, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Meta156 requestsSocial media
static.cdninstagram.com, scontent.cdninstagram.com, www.instagram.com, graph.instagram.com
- Adobe5 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
- New Relic5 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Hotjar3 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com, vc.hotjar.io
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _hjSession_3831866 | Functional | usc.edu | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_3831866 | Functional | usc.edu | 12 months |
| cookieyes-consent | Functional | usc.edu | 12 months |
| mid | Functional | instagram.com (third party) | 13 months |
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.