Is your site tracking people before they say yes?
Most UK sites are. We load your page on a clean browser from a UK vantage point, record everything it stores before anyone clicks anything, and score it against UK GDPR and PECR — with the ICO guidance behind each finding.
Free, no signup, about a minute. One page per scan. We only scan public pages, never sign in, and never enter personal details.
What we’ve found so far
From 62 UK sites across 7 sectors. A convenience sample from our own scans, not a survey.
| Sector | Sites | Median score | Offer one-click refuse | Clean before consent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public sector | 8 | 87 | 75% | 25% |
| Health | 8 | 60 | 63% | 13% |
| Finance & insurance | 8 | 54 | 63% | 0% |
| Retail & e-commerce | 13 | 42 | 23% | 0% |
| Technology | 8 | 39 | 25% | 0% |
| Travel & transport | 8 | 27 | 75% | 0% |
| Media & publishing | 9 | 26 | 44% | 0% |
The ICO is explicit that refusing non-essential cookies must be as easy as accepting. Most sectors here are not close. See the full findings and method.
What the free check shows you
Free
- Your score out of 100, and how you compare with your sector
- Every tracker that fired before consent, named
- Your top findings, with the regulation behind each
- A link you can share for 7 days
With an account
- The full evidence trail — timestamps, matched rules, where each tag comes from
- PDF report you can hand to a client or a board
- Re-scan on a schedule, with alerts when something regresses
- Category, product and basket pages, not just the homepage
PrivacyScan is an automated technical assessment, not legal advice. It records what a browser observed on a single page load from a UK vantage point. Whether a practice is lawful depends on facts a scan cannot see.