Glossary

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
_ga	Used to distinguish users.	2 Years	HTML	Google
_gat	Used to throttle request rate.	1 Day	HTML	Google
_gid	Used to distinguish users.	1 Day	HTML	Google
_ga_--container-id--	Persists session state.	2 Years	HTML	Google
_gac_--property-id--	Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.	3 Months	HTML	Google

_ga

Used to distinguish users.

2 Years

HTML

Google

_gat

Used to throttle request rate.

1 Day

HTML

Google

_gid

Used to distinguish users.

1 Day

HTML

Google

_ga_--container-id--

Persists session state.

2 Years

HTML

Google

_gac_--property-id--

Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.

3 Months

HTML

Google