What do the screenshots in the GDPR Website Check show – and how should they be interpreted?
Display of the website in a full-screen browser view (typical screen width ≥ 1280 px).
Display in a simulated smartphone view (narrow viewport width, e.g. 390 px).
Both screenshots show the state of the website immediately after the automated retrieval – exactly as it appeared to the auditing system. They serve as a visual snapshot of the page visit.
The page loaded successfully and the consent tool – if present – was automatically confirmed. The screenshot shows the regular page content as it appears after user consent has been given.
In this case, scripts, tools, and plugins that are only loaded after consent could also be evaluated.
The consent request was not automatically confirmed.
In this case, no additional scripts or services were loaded that only become active after consent is given. All tools, scripts, and cookies listed in the report were therefore loaded either without consent or detected by other means – for example, through source code analysis or network data detection (detection type "network_detection").
The website has protection against automated access (e.g. CAPTCHA, bot detection, anti-crawler mechanism). This protection was triggered during the audit retrieval – confirming that it is working as intended.
Nevertheless, numerous other checks were still carried out and are documented in the report – for example, through analysis of publicly accessible source code, network data, or other detection methods.