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

148,139 business websites read in 674 indexes, as of 17 October 2026. 122 of 675 indexes have enough pages read to be compared so far.

Main points

That is 15% of 148,139 business websites read.
The most common: Complianz (5,214), Cookiebot (4,745), Borlabs (2,452).
By kind of business: highest among tours, attractions and museums (21%), lowest among cafes and bars (12%).
Among 22 cafe and bar indexes, Cologne is highest at 27%; the median is 11%.

Figure 1

Which consent managers

Tool	Sites
Complianz	5,214
Cookiebot	4,745
Borlabs	2,452
CookieYes	1,985
iubenda	1,186
OneTrust	1,165
CookieControl	1,118
Usercentrics	941

Figure 2

By kind of business

Kind	Share	Of
restaurants	13%	67,051
cafes and bars	12%	26,931
hairdressers and beauty salons	14%	16,738
dentists, clinics and vets	20%	28,152
tours, attractions and museums	21%	9,267

Figure 3

Cafes and bars, city by city

another cafe and bar indexmedian, 11%

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22 cafe and bar indexes. The median is 11%; the highest is Cologne at 27%.

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Cologne DE	27%	312
2	Hamburg DE	23%	618
3	Munich DE	22%	414
4	Dublin IE	20%	305
5	Copenhagen DK	17%	540
6	Budapest HU	17%	370
7	Berlin DE	15%	1,906
7	Vienna AT	15%	506
9	London GB	13%	1,978
10	Prague CZ	12%	495

All 22 cafe and bar indexes

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Cologne DE	27%	312
2	Hamburg DE	23%	618
3	Munich DE	22%	414
4	Dublin IE	20%	305
5	Copenhagen DK	17%	540
6	Budapest HU	17%	370
7	Berlin DE	15%	1,906
7	Vienna AT	15%	506
9	London GB	13%	1,978
10	Prague CZ	12%	495
11	Paris FR	12%	659
12	Stockholm SE	11%	370
13	Amsterdam NL	9.2%	433
14	Miami US	8.8%	577
15	Los Angeles US	6.7%	330
16	New York US	4.6%	1,177
17	Chicago US	4.3%	558
18	Sydney AU	3.9%	635
19	Vancouver CA	3.5%	312
20	Melbourne AU	3.1%	849
21	Washington, DC US	2.9%	348
22	Seattle US	1.9%	521

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.