What does vanderbilt.edu track?
Before any consent, vanderbilt.edu loaded 5 tracking companies and set 6 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.vanderbilt.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were content delivery companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Meta5 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Hotjar3 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com, content.hotjar.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- hu-manity.co1 requestUnclassified
cdn.hu-manity.co
- Google4 requestsFunctional
www.google.com
- Cloudflare7 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- Google Cloud1 requestContent delivery
mpc-prod-21-1053047382554.us-central1.run.app
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
capi-automation.s3.us-east-2.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | vanderbilt.edu | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | vanderbilt.edu | 3 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| _ga | Analytics | vanderbilt.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_Q8Z61J6QLT | Analytics | vanderbilt.edu | 13 months |
| _hash | Unclassified | apply.vanderbilt.edu | 13 months |
| _hashV | Unclassified | apply.vanderbilt.edu | 13 months |
| _node | Unclassified | apply.vanderbilt.edu | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _hjSession_3146100 | Functional | vanderbilt.edu | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_3146100 | Functional | vanderbilt.edu | 12 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
The page also wrote 4 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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