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15% business websites load a consent manager, in the 674 indexes read so far

143,999 business websites read in 674 indexes, as of 17 October 2026. 121 of 675 indexes have enough pages read to be compared so far.

Main points

That is 15% of 143,999 business websites read.
The most common: Complianz (5,187), Cookiebot (4,632), Borlabs (2,452).
By kind of business: highest among tours, attractions and museums (21%), lowest among cafes and bars (12%).
Among 73 restaurant indexes, Verona is highest at 36%; the median is 9.5%.

Figure 1

Which consent managers

Tool	Sites
Complianz	5,187
Cookiebot	4,632
Borlabs	2,452
CookieYes	1,973
iubenda	1,180
OneTrust	1,118
CookieControl	1,118
Usercentrics	939

Figure 2

By kind of business

Kind	Share	Of
restaurants	13%	65,062
cafes and bars	12%	26,913
hairdressers and beauty salons	15%	14,538
dentists, clinics and vets	20%	28,202
tours, attractions and museums	21%	9,284

Figure 3

Restaurants, city by city

another restaurant indexmedian, 9.5%

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73 restaurant indexes. The median is 9.5%; the highest is Verona at 36%.

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Verona IT	36%	538
2	Milan IT	35%	838
3	Rome IT	30%	636
4	Strasbourg FR	26%	329
5	Nuremberg DE	24%	516
6	Düsseldorf DE	24%	497
7	Barcelona ES	23%	554
8	Dresden DE	22%	333
9	Cologne DE	22%	831
10	Hanover DE	22%	394

All 73 restaurant indexes

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Verona IT	36%	538
2	Milan IT	35%	838
3	Rome IT	30%	636
4	Strasbourg FR	26%	329
5	Nuremberg DE	24%	516
6	Düsseldorf DE	24%	497
7	Barcelona ES	23%	554
8	Dresden DE	22%	333
9	Cologne DE	22%	831
10	Hanover DE	22%	394
11	Leipzig DE	22%	319
12	Munich DE	22%	1,494
13	Hamburg DE	21%	1,743
14	Bremen DE	21%	393
15	Frankfurt DE	21%	808
16	Copenhagen DK	20%	947
17	Madrid ES	19%	865
18	Porto PT	18%	388
19	Stuttgart DE	17%	668
20	Budapest HU	17%	740
21	Toulouse FR	17%	368
22	Paris FR	17%	2,420
22	Vienna AT	17%	2,239
24	Nantes FR	17%	301
25	Lyon FR	17%	685
26	Nice FR	16%	304
27	Dublin IE	15%	318
28	Lisbon PT	14%	875
29	Helsinki FI	14%	709
30	Berlin DE	14%	3,991
30	Warsaw PL	14%	542
32	Utrecht NL	13%	485
33	Ghent BE	12%	396
34	Zurich CH	12%	633
35	Prague CZ	11%	1,063
36	Antwerp BE	11%	359
37	Amsterdam NL	9.5%	1,081
37	Ottawa CA	9.5%	454
39	Edinburgh GB	9.3%	335
40	The Hague NL	9.2%	467
41	Rotterdam NL	8.7%	345
42	Oslo NO	8.6%	373
43	Brussels BE	7.8%	683
43	London GB	7.8%	2,385
43	San Jose US	7.8%	435
46	Montreal CA	7.7%	620
47	Stockholm SE	7.6%	1,218
48	Phoenix US	7.0%	302
49	Miami US	6.9%	682
50	Gothenburg SE	6.3%	382
51	Houston US	5.8%	363
52	Los Angeles US	5.7%	948
52	Philadelphia US	5.7%	492
54	Atlanta US	5.5%	327
54	Dallas US	5.5%	508
54	Denver US	5.5%	544
54	Washington US	5.5%	993
58	San Diego US	5.4%	596
59	Singapore SG	4.4%	405
60	San Francisco US	4.3%	785
61	Seattle US	4.2%	646
62	Minneapolis US	4.1%	343
62	Sydney AU	4.1%	664
64	Chicago US	3.9%	1,016
65	Boston US	3.8%	584
66	Austin US	3.5%	369
66	Calgary CA	3.5%	483
68	Toronto CA	3.2%	809
69	Tokyo JP	3.1%	386
70	New York US	2.8%	3,229
71	Auckland NZ	2.6%	306
72	Vancouver CA	2.2%	743
73	Melbourne AU	1.7%	872

Indexes are compared once 300 pages, and half of the scanned sites, have been read. The "Of" column is the base each figure rests on.

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About these numbers
Counted when the page loads one of 19 known consent-management tools. Banners written by hand aren't recognised, so this is a lower bound.

Cite this

15% business websites load a consent manager, in the 674 indexes read so far (The Direct Index, 17 October 2026, directindex.org/stats/consent).

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Data: ODbL. Business data from OpenStreetMap contributors and Overture Maps; website facts from the Direct Index scanner, which reads each site's public pages.