What does uspto.gov track?
Before any consent, uspto.gov loaded 4 tracking companies and set 6 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.uspto.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- YouTube2 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- Qualtrics26 requestsAnalytics
gov1.siteintercept.qualtrics.com, zn38hormqiggjilaq-uspto.gov1.siteintercept.qualtrics.com
- Google Analytics17 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Digital Analytics Program (DAP)1 requestAnalytics
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 | uspto.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CD30TTEK1F | Analytics | uspto.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_CSLL4ZEK4L | Analytics | uspto.gov | 13 months |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 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.