What does usf.edu track?
Before any consent, usf.edu loaded 7 tracking companies and set 7 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.usf.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 27
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads8 requestsAdvertising
googleads.g.doubleclick.net, static.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- The Trade Desk5 requestsAdvertising
js.adsrvr.org, insight.adsrvr.org, match.adsrvr.org
- Meta109 requestsSocial media
static.cdninstagram.com, scontent.cdninstagram.com, www.instagram.com, connect.facebook.net
- YouTube20 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com, i.ytimg.com
- Microsoft Clarity6 requestsAnalytics
e.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Siteimprove3 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 6343592.global.r2.siteimproveanalytics.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google10 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com, jnn-pa.googleapis.com, fonts.googleapis.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _fbp | Advertising | usf.edu | 3 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | usf.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_QB3QP2ZSHX | Analytics | usf.edu | 13 months |
| nmstat | Analytics | usf.edu | 13 months |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| mid | Functional | instagram.com (third party) | 13 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 2 keys 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.