Of 18,524 sites scanned, 94.5% had no consent platform the scanner could detect. Consent tooling is far less common in practice than the volume of banners online suggests.
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.
Four in five sites had neither a consent platform nor a privacy preferences link the scanner could find.
Rawsoft Website Privacy Index · n = 18,524 · scanned January to August 2026
| Tier | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gated | 205 | 1.1% |
| Partial | 819 | 4.4% |
| Exposed | 4,391 | 23.7% |
| Unprotected | 13,109 | 70.8% |
Verticals with at least 300 scanned sites. Ecommerce runs consent tooling roughly twice as often as restaurants do.
Rawsoft Website Privacy Index · n = 13,618 · scanned January to August 2026
| Vertical | Sites | Gated | Partial | Exposed | Unprotected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 10,653 | 1.0% | 3.5% | 16.6% | 78.9% |
| Ecommerce | 2,466 | 0.6% | 4.0% | 69.3% | 26.1% |
| Hospitality | 499 | 6.2% | 19.8% | 25.5% | 48.5% |
The mass sits at the bottom. 7,757 sites scored zero, and the mean was 13.8 out of 100.
Rawsoft Website Privacy Index · n = 18,524 · scanned January to August 2026
| Score band | Sites |
|---|---|
| 0-9 | 7,762 |
| 10-19 | 5,179 |
| 20-29 | 4,392 |
| 30-39 | 478 |
| 40-49 | 91 |
| 50-59 | 107 |
| 60-69 | 92 |
| 70-79 | 8 |
| 80-89 | 342 |
| 90-99 | 73 |
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.
Records: 18,613 scanned, 18,524 carrying a privacy result. Crawl window: January to August 2026. Nothing here is a legal conclusion, and no site is described as compliant or non-compliant.
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