Site Behavior Lab · Evidence

usatoday.com told Google you were here.

Currently retained public corpus evidence

This versioned report is currently retained in the public corpus. Follow the currently retained site history, repeat the same public route when it is available, or request a transparent evidence correction.

Integrity and provenance

Evidence receipt

Report ID
20260702-b8445483e9b70421d637fc1a38eb6ca4
Site
www.usatoday.com
Latest visit
Schema
v1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report
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Baseline visit

Started
Run quality
cut short: the visit hit the scanner's request-recording cap, so its counts are truncated; derived from status and warnings
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
149.0.7827.55
Redaction
not recorded by this schema
Provenance
Exact build and instrument digests were not recorded by this legacy schema.

Variant visit

Started
Run quality
cut short: the visit hit the scanner's request-recording cap, so its counts are truncated; derived from status and warnings
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
149.0.7827.55
Redaction
not recorded by this schema
Provenance
Exact build and instrument digests were not recorded by this legacy schema.

Recorded provenance is self-reported measurement metadata, not a cryptographic attestation. The public versioned report JSON contains the retained public evidence; see the methodology for interpretation and retention limits.

Recorded visit v1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report

www.usatoday.com

https://www.usatoday.com/

cut short: the visit hit the scanner's request-recording cap, so its counts are truncated; derived from status and warningsJul 2, 2026, 2:36 PM UTC

What this actually means

usatoday.com told Google you were here.

17 tracking companies saw this visit across 144 third-party domains. It also looks like 1 browser-fingerprinting heuristic matched.

17tracking companies
962data requests sent off-site
271third-party cookies
1fingerprinting signal

Detailed evidence

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