yandex.com in the Consent Gap Index

A pairing that is almost total

98.1 percent co-presence is close to the ceiling. Yandex Metrica — the analytics product, counted separately in this index — appears on 209 of the 213 sites where yandex.com does. Nothing else comes near it. Google is second at 75 sites (35.2 percent), mail.ru third at 59 (27.7), and below that the co-presence list falls away into a tail of Yandex-adjacent hosts, none of them above 23 percent. A ratio that high usually means the two hostnames are pulled in by the same installation step rather than chosen independently, though this index records the co-occurrence and not the mechanism. It is the clearest signal on the page: if you see this host, you are almost certainly looking at a site with Yandex analytics on it.

Unusually light pages

The median site in this group makes 21 requests to third-party hosts. Among the 88 companies in this index that is the 4th-lowest median request count. The median company count is 6, which ranks 74th of 88, and the median tracker count is 1, ranking 55th. The count of companies contacted before a banner answer could be registered is 4 on the median site, 80th of 88 — only one company here sits lower, and seven more report the same 4. This is not a heavy corner of the web. Compared with the ad-financed publisher stacks elsewhere in this index, a typical yandex.com page has a short guest list and does not talk to it very much.

Thirteen banners across 213 sites

A consent tool was recognised on 13 of the 213 sites. Two were seen alongside them: an IAB TCF consent tool on 11 sites and OneTrust on 2. Early contact happened on 197 of the 213, 92.5 percent, ranking 53rd of the 88 companies here. On the median site no companies at all were contacted after the consent window closed. The picture is consistent: a small stack, contacted early, on pages that overwhelmingly never present a dialog to answer.

Timing and the named sample

First contact on the median site landed at 661 milliseconds, ranking 44th of 88 — squarely mid-field. The fastest recorded was 64 milliseconds. The named sites diverge sharply around that median. selectel.ru contacted 10 companies with all 10 early, at 244 ms. mail.ru shows 14 companies of which 9 were early, at 338 ms, and magnit.ru 14 with 12 early at 855 ms. ok.ru shows 11 with 7 early at 480 ms. At the other extreme, cdnvideo.ru, timeweb.ru and dzen.ru each recorded zero companies inside the early window, with first contact at 3,486 ms, 2,072 ms and 2,744 ms respectively — pages where nothing third-party happens for two to three and a half seconds.

The middle of the distribution

Between those poles sit the ordinary cases. 2gis.com contacted 5 companies, all 5 early, at 1,059 ms. yandex.ru shows 7 with 5 early at 1,033 ms. mts.ru shows 10 companies but only 4 early, at 1,371 ms, and ivi.ru 10 with 2 early at 1,425 ms — both examples of pages that defer most of their third-party work well past the opening. netangels.ru is the smallest here at 4 companies with 2 early. The variance inside a group this homogeneous is a reminder that a shared analytics vendor tells you what a site measures with, not how it is built.

Why an unclassified host still earns an entry

Hosts without a catalogue entry are usually skipped in tracker reporting, which is exactly why they are worth counting. yandex.com is the 18th most-encountered of the 88 companies in this index and carries no label at all. What can be said about it comes entirely from measurement: how often it appears, what appears with it, how much the pages around it do, and when.

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.

• Yandex MetricaTogether on 209 of these sites
• GoogleTogether on 75 of these sites
• mail.ruTogether on 59 of these sites
• yastatic.netTogether on 49 of these sites
• yadro.ruTogether on 30 of these sites
• Google Fonts / APIsTogether on 30 of these sites