What does vt.edu track?
Before any consent, vt.edu loaded 10 tracking companies and set 14 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 92% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.vt.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 10
- Tracking cookies
- 14
- Third-party hosts
- 29
- Cookies in total
- 29
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 13 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads11 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, www.googleadservices.com
- The Trade Desk5 requestsAdvertising
js.adsrvr.org, insight.adsrvr.org, match.adsrvr.org
- Microsoft Advertising4 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com, bat.bing.net
- Spotify Ads1 requestAdvertising
pixel.byspotify.com
- Meta5 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- X (Twitter)5 requestsSocial media
t.co, analytics.twitter.com, static.ads-twitter.com
- Reddit5 requestsSocial media
alb.reddit.com, www.redditstatic.com, pixel-config.reddit.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Google Analytics12 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Crazy Egg4 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was muc_ads, from X (Twitter), lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | vt.edu | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | vt.edu | 3 months |
| _rdt_uuid | Advertising | vt.edu | 3 months |
| _uetsid | Advertising | vt.edu | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Advertising | vt.edu | 13 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| muc_ads | Advertising | t.co (third party) | 13 months |
| MUID | Advertising | bing.com (third party) | 13 months |
| personalization_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ce.s | Analytics | vt.edu | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | vt.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_5Z60EH83Q9 | Analytics | vt.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_DTEQ1JM2SG | Analytics | vt.edu | 13 months |
| __spdt | Unclassified | www.vt.edu | 12 months |
| _hash | Unclassified | admit.vt.edu | 13 months |
| _hash | Unclassified | applyto.graduateschool.vt.edu | 13 months |
| _hashV | Unclassified | admit.vt.edu | 13 months |
| _hashV | Unclassified | applyto.graduateschool.vt.edu | 13 months |
| _node | Unclassified | admit.vt.edu | Session |
| _node | Unclassified | applyto.graduateschool.vt.edu | Session |
| _twpid | Unclassified | vt.edu | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | vt.edu | 13 months |
| cee | Unclassified | cpg.netnatives.com (third party) | 3 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | t.co (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| test_cookie | Functional | doubleclick.net (third party) | Under a day |
The page also wrote 7 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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