Website Privacy Index 2026

The sites that got it right

61 sites out of 4,815 cleared every check we could run. Each one showed a consent platform, a working Consent Mode v2 signal, and no tracking before consent or after a refusal. This page is positive only. No site appears here for anything it did wrong.

This index covers restaurant, hospitality and independent ecommerce sites. It is not a sample of the web as a whole, and the figures should not be read as one. Every figure describes what an automated scan could observe on a public page. A site recorded as having no consent platform detected may run one the scanner could not see, and an absence of findings is not a clean bill of health.

61 sites reached the Gated tier out of 4,815 scored
1.3% of the whole crawl 61 of 4,815
54 perfect scores excluded no positive evidence behind them

Why the list is short

A perfect score on its own doesn't earn a place here. 54 sites in this crawl scored 100 because the scanner found nothing at all to fail them on, which is a very different thing from getting consent right. Those are excluded. Everything on this list had to show positive evidence of a working consent gate.

Listed alphabetically within score. Each result reflects a single scan on the date shown and may not describe the site today.

How this was measured

Each site was loaded the way a first-time visitor loads it. The scan recorded whether a consent platform appeared, when it appeared, what fired before anyone interacted with it, what fired after a refusal, and whether a privacy preferences link was reachable.

Tiers describe the mechanism observed, not the company. They are assigned from what the scan saw rather than from the score, because the score awards points where a vendor simply isn't present, and that would flatter sites that run no tags at all.

  • Gated. Consent platform detected, Consent Mode v2 observed, no tracking seen before consent or after denial
  • Partial. Consent platform detected, but with gaps: no Consent Mode v2 signal, or tracking seen anyway
  • Exposed. No consent platform detected, though a privacy or cookie preferences link was found
  • Unprotected. No consent platform and no privacy preferences link detected

Records: 4,904 scanned, 4,815 carrying a privacy result. Crawl window: January to February 2026. Nothing here is a legal conclusion, and no site is described as compliant or non-compliant.

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