Cookiebot: 98 sites, and what happened before the click

Every one of the 98 carried a banner

All 98 of Cookiebot's sites in this index were recorded as carrying a detected consent tool, and Cookiebot was the only tool recorded on them, with a count of 98. Sites can and do carry more than one banner, so that second fact is not automatic. It makes this group easier to read than most: the population is defined by the presence of a working consent mechanism rather than by an industry, a platform or a country, which is what gives the timing figures below their meaning. Whatever happened on these pages happened on pages that were asking.

These are quiet pages

The median Cookiebot site reached five separate companies during the load, which ranks 85th of the 88 companies in this index on that measure, made 26 requests, ranking 79th, and carried one host classified as tracking, ranking 77th. Whatever else these sites are, they are not advertising-funded aggregations of a dozen vendors. They are corporate sites, tools, publications and standards bodies with a modest third-party footprint, and the median count of companies first seen after the consent window closes is zero.

Early contact on 97 of the 98

On 97 of the 98 sites, 99 percent, at least one company was contacted before the point where a banner could have been answered. One site had none. That share ranks fifth of 88 companies in this index. The median site had reached five companies inside the window and its first third-party request came at 546 milliseconds, the quickest at 108 milliseconds. Two things this does not say: it does not identify which companies arrived early, because the crawl counts them per site without naming them, and it does not describe the banner's own network activity.

Who else is on these pages

Google was present on 73 of the 98 sites, 74.5 percent. Then jsDelivr on 17.3 percent, Cloudflare Analytics on 15.3 percent, Amazon CloudFront on 13.3 percent, Adobe Fonts on 11.2 percent, HubSpot on 9.2 percent, LinkedIn and Cloudflare on 8.2 percent each, Sentry on 7.1 percent and Google Tag Manager on 6.1 percent. That is a font, a script host, an error reporter and a form tool: the standard furniture of a business website, which is consistent with a median of five companies rather than fifteen.

Twelve of the sites in detail

launchdarkly.com reached nine companies, all nine inside the early window, with first contact at 249 milliseconds. bt.dk reached twelve, eleven early, at 278 milliseconds, and ekstrabladet.dk six, all early. globalsign.com reached eight, seven early; sectigo.com seven, six early; acm.org seven, six early; weforum.org six, all six early; hltv.org five; adjust.com five; issuu.com three; action.com four, three early. The exception in this set is oxylabs.io, which reached twelve companies with only two of them inside the window and first contact at 857 milliseconds.

Seen on the same pages

Companies most often contacted by the same sites. Co-presence only — the crawl records what arrived, not who called whom.

• GoogleTogether on 73 of these sites
• jsDelivrTogether on 17 of these sites
• Cloudflare AnalyticsTogether on 15 of these sites
• Amazon CloudFrontTogether on 13 of these sites
• Adobe FontsTogether on 11 of these sites
• HubSpotTogether on 9 of these sites
• LinkedInTogether on 8 of these sites
• CloudflareTogether on 8 of these sites