Compliance Summary

Overview

The Compliance Summary provides a clear and actionable view of your website’s cookie compliance based on data collected by the Cookie Scanner.

It enables you to:

• Evaluate your overall compliance level

• Identify the most critical issues

• Prioritize actions to improve your setup

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Filters

Use the filters at the top of the page to refine the analysis:

• Rare Cookies: Include or exclude low-frequency cookies (Off by default)

• Website: Select the domain(s) configured in your Cookie Notice settings

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Cookie Compliance Score

The Cookie Compliance Score (out of 100) reflects your website’s compliance level.

The score is calculated based on:

• Cookies set before user consent

• Cookies set after user refusal

• Cookie purpose (marketing cookies have a higher impact)

See formula and detailed explanation here

A low score indicates significant GDPR compliance risks, while a higher score reflects better alignment with regulatory requirements.

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Executive Narrative

The Executive Narrative provides an automated summary of your compliance status.

It highlights:

• The main issues affecting your score

• Key risk areas

• High-level recommendations to improve compliance

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Next Best Actions

The Next Best Actions section displays the top 3 actions with the highest impact on your compliance score.

Each recommendation includes:

• Cookie name & Category

• Detection frequency

• Issue type (e.g. before consent, after refusal)

• Severity & estimated impact on the score

Priority indicators

• High impact: Major issues with strong impact on the score (10 points or more)

• Medium impact: Important issues (between 5 and 9 points)

• Low impact: Minor issues or easy fixes (less than 5 points)

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Key Metrics

The following indicators provide a quick overview of your situation:

• Cookies before consent: Number of cookies set before user approval

• Cookies after refusal: Cookies set after a user has refused consent

• High frequency issues: Number of recurring issues identified

• Total cookies scanned: Total number of cookies detected in the last 30 days

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Cookies by Consent Status and Category

This chart shows the distribution of cookies by:

• Consent status: before consent, after consent, after refusal

• Category: essential, analytics, marketing, uncategorized

This helps identify which types of cookies are not compliant and when they are triggered.

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Top Violations

The Top Violations section lists the cookies with the highest negative impact on your compliance score.

• Up to 5 cookies are displayed

• If fewer cookies significantly impact the score, only relevant ones are shown

Focus on these cookies first to achieve the fastest improvements.

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Best Practices

To improve your compliance score:

• Do not set non-essential cookies before consent

• Ensure user refusal is fully respected

• Use the flag "exempted" for cookies allowed to be set before consent, or after refuse all

• Properly categorize all cookies

• Regularly review high-impact issues identified in the interface

Have you changed your settings to improve your score? You’ll need to wait 5 minutes for the changes to take effect on this page, whilst your score is being recalculated