What does virginia.edu track?
Before any consent, virginia.edu loaded 7 tracking companies and set 16 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.virginia.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 16
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 21
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- StackAdapt4 requestsAdvertising
tags.srv.stackadapt.com
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- YouTube2 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- Adobe82 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net
- Crazy Egg4 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Parse.ly2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.parsely.com, p1.parsely.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Cludo2 requestsFunctional
customer.cludo.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
ajax.googleapis.com
- Vimeo1 requestFunctional
player.vimeo.com
- jsDelivr7 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- Cloudflare5 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.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 |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | www.virginia.edu | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | www.virginia.edu | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v3 | Advertising | www.virginia.edu | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | www.virginia.edu | 12 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ce.s | Analytics | virginia.edu | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | virginia.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_J44315NZPS | Analytics | virginia.edu | 13 months |
| Unclassified | www.virginia.edu | Session | |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _parsely_session | Functional | virginia.edu | Under a day |
| _parsely_visitor | Functional | virginia.edu | 13 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 4 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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