By top-level domain

How third-party contact differs by where a site is registered. Measured across 5,294 sites.

• .com third-party load: what 2,831 measured sites show usThe .com sites in this index number 2,831 of the 5,294 measured. The median one reaches five separate companies, four of them before a banner can be answered.
• .io domains: all 104 measured had contact before consentEvery one of the 104 .io sites measured had a company contacted before consent could be recorded — the highest share of the nine top-level domains here.
• .net domains measured: leaner pages, early first contact245 .net sites were measured for this index. The median one reaches 4 outside companies, and 228 of them had contact before a banner could be answered.
• .ru Sites: 7 of 164 Carried a Consent Banner of Any KindAcross the 164 measured .ru sites, only 7 carried a consent banner, yet 149 contacted a company early. Median: 6 companies over 32 third-party requests.
• Inside .de websites: 91 German sites, measured one by oneNo domain ending here is lighter than .de: 3 companies at the median, level with .org, and 0 trackers. Yet 88 of the 91 saw contact before the banner.
• Inside .gov: one detected banner across 86 measured sitesAcross 86 measured .gov sites, the crawl detected a consent banner on exactly one. On 80 of the 86, a company was contacted in the pre-consent window.
• Japan's .jp domains: heaviest of the nine TLDs measuredThe median .jp site in this index contacted 10 companies over 58 requests, the highest of nine TLDs, and waited 1,755 ms for its first third-party contact.
• The 250 .org sites in this index: light, early, and quietThe 250 .org sites in this index contact just 3 companies at the median, and 241 of them reached someone before a banner could have been answered yet.
• What .edu sites load: 99 measured, only 14 with a bannerAcross the 99 .edu sites measured here the median page contacts 7 companies, yet only 14 of the 99 carried a consent banner the crawl could recognise at all.

How this was measured, and what it refuses to measure