The Five Cookie Names and Types Used by Google Analytics

Cookie name     Time to live     Type Purpose
__utma              24 months     first-party Stores domain and visitor identifiers
                                                For example, unique ID, timestamp of initial visit, number of sessions to date

 

__utmb              Session         first-party Stores session identifiers

                                                Changes to identify each unique session

 

__utmc              Session         first-party Stores session identifiers
                                                Expires after 30 minutes of inactivity

 

__utmk               Session         first-party Used for quality control
                                                Checks data integrity when using the _link() and
                                                _linkByPost() functions

 

__utmv              24 months     first-party Stores custom label
                                                For example, customer, subscriber, registered user

 

__utmz              6 months       first-party Stores campaign variables
                                                For example, referrer, keyword (if search engine), medium
                                                type (CPC, organic, banner, e-mail)