: What is the Google Analytics cookie expiration? Do you know how long it takes for the Google Analytics cookie to time out before a user is recognized as new again? I believe it is 2 years.

@Vandalay111

Depending on what cookie you mean exactly, 2 years would probably be the answer you're looking for based on this source: developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
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Google itself lists three main cookies that are set by the analytics script:


"_ga" with a lifetime of "2 years" that is "Used to distinguish users."
"_gid" with a lifetime of "24 hours" that is "Used to distinguish users."
"_ga" with a lifetime of "1 minute" that is "Used to throttle request rate."


Beyond that there are 7 more specific cookies that handle things like distinguishing between users/sessions and setting user level data. Their expiration time is between 10 minutes and 2 years.

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