Yandex Metrica, on 246 sites and 15 banners

Fifteen banners across 246 sites

Of the 246 sites where Metrica was present, 15 showed a consent banner of any kind during the crawl. Seen among those: an IAB TCF consent tool on 13, OneTrust on 2. A site can carry more than one banner, so treat these as counts rather than a split. There is a straightforward reason a figure this low is not surprising — banner obligations follow the audience a site expects, and most sites in this group are serving a Russian-speaking audience rather than an EU one. The number is worth stating anyway, because it sets the context for everything below: for the overwhelming majority of these pages there was no banner to arrive before.

Light pages by request count

The median Metrica site made 24 requests, which is 83rd of the 88 companies in this index — only a handful of entries sit lower. Its median site contacts 6 companies and carries 1 classified as tracking. The median count of companies contacted before a banner could have been answered is 4, ranked 80th of 88 and level with seven others, again toward the bottom. These are not elaborate pages. The pattern is a small number of hosts, contacted early, and not much else.

A stack that arrives as a set

The co-presence figures are unusually concentrated. On 209 of the 246 sites — 85 percent — yandex.com is present too. yastatic.net is on 25.2 percent, yandex.net on 13.8, yadro.ru on 13. mail.ru appears on 28.9 percent and vk.com on 11. Google is on 38.2 percent and Google Fonts or APIs on 12.2. A single name reaching 85 percent of an entry's sites is a strong signal that the two arrive as a set rather than being chosen separately. Metrica is rarely installed alone here; it comes with a regional group of services that tend to be adopted together.

Timing and early contact

On 228 of the 246 sites — 92.7 percent — at least one company was contacted before a banner could have been answered, which ranks 51st of 88 on share. The median time to first third-party contact is 653 ms, 50th of 88, and the earliest single site was 64 ms. The median count of companies contacted after the window closes is 0. As everywhere in this index, that early-contact figure is a property of the site, counted per page: it records how many companies arrived inside the window, not which.

Twelve of the sites, in detail

The spread inside the sample is large. selectel.ru contacted 10 companies with all 10 inside the window and a first contact at 244 ms. dzen.ru contacted 7 with none inside the window and a first contact at 2,744 ms — a page that waits. mail.ru contacted 14 with 9 early; ok.ru 11 with 7; mts.ru 10 with 4; ivi.ru 10 with 2. At the light end, yandex.net and yandex.com each contacted 3, both fully inside the window. nic.ru contacted 6, netangels.ru 4, 2gis.com 5, yandex.ru 7.

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.comTogether on 209 of these sites
• GoogleTogether on 94 of these sites
• mail.ruTogether on 71 of these sites
• yastatic.netTogether on 62 of these sites
• yadro.ruTogether on 32 of these sites
• Google Fonts / APIsTogether on 30 of these sites
• jsDelivrTogether on 15 of these sites