What does usda.gov track?
Before any consent, usda.gov loaded 4 tracking companies and set 12 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.usda.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 12
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 15
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net
- YouTube2 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- Google Analytics15 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)2 requestsAnalytics
dap.digitalgov.gov
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 | usda.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | usda.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_JV4BH8QMXZ | Analytics | usda.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_MKM7D79XFX | Analytics | usda.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_VYRH7BQ1FL | Analytics | usda.gov | 13 months |
| _gat | Analytics | usda.gov | Under a day |
| _gat_UA-93344103-7 | Analytics | usda.gov | Under a day |
| _gat_usdaTracker | Analytics | usda.gov | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | usda.gov | 1 day |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | usda.gov | Under a day |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 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.