What does whitehouse.gov track?
Before any consent, whitehouse.gov loaded 2 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.whitehouse.gov once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Parse.ly3 requestsAnalytics
cdn.parsely.com, api.parsely.com, p1.parsely.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- mailchimp.com16 requestsUnclassified
form-assets.mailchimp.com
- intuit.com2 requestsUnclassified
eventcollector.mcf-prod.a.intuit.com
- Google14 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Mailchimp1 requestFunctional
chimpstatic.com
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
9kvu81ddh3.execute-api.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | whitehouse.gov | 13 months |
| _ga_5S5VLE733W | Analytics | whitehouse.gov | 13 months |
| Unclassified | www.whitehouse.gov | Session | |
| mcforms-227922038-sessionId | Unclassified | www.whitehouse.gov | Session |
| _parsely_session | Functional | whitehouse.gov | Under a day |
| _parsely_visitor | Functional | whitehouse.gov | 13 months |
The page also wrote 9 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.