Website Privacy Test: Scoring Methodology & Grading Criteria

Test your website and its components for privacy misconfigurations, user tracking technologies and other violations of data protection laws

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Website Privacy Test: Scoring Methodology

At the beginning of the test, the score is set to 100.

Website gets an "N" if a tested port is closed or HTTP status code is not 200, 301, 302, 303, 307 or 308.

The number of points changes as provided below:

Description	Score
The website has a privacy policy	+10
The website is accessible via unencrypted HTTP protocol	-50
The website is accessible via unencrypted HTTP protocol without a redirect to secure HTTPS version	-40
The website has third-party cookies and the cookie consent banner is not found	-25
For each tracking pixel	-20
The website sets a tracker in the browser’s Local Storage	-20
For each third-party cookie with lifetime longer than 3 months	-5
For each third-party SLD host that makes an XHR request to the website	-2
For each third-party SLD host with iframe on the website	-2
For each third-party SLD host that receives sumbmitted data via a web form on the website	-2
For each third-party SLD host that sets a cookie on the website	-1
For each third-party SLD host that loads an image on the website	-1
For each third-party SLD host that loads a JavaScript file on the website	-1
For each third-party SLD host that loads a CSS file on the website	-1
For each third-party SLD host that loads a media file on the website	-1
For each third-party SLD host that loads a font file on the website	-1