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56%

56% -- share of sites with more than 25 third party trackers for top UK websites (2012)

Name: Share Of Sites With More Than 25 Third Party Trackers Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-27

2012 · n=231 · TRUSTe

56% of the 231 top UK websites analysed had more than 25 third-party trackers on their site.

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Value

56%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2012

Entity

top UK websites

Sample Size

231

Geography

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

TRUSTe Primary Tier A

http://truste.com/uk-compliance-tracking-index ↗

Confidence: 32/100 Vintage: 2012 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Nearly Two In Three Top UK Websites Have Taken Steps To Be Cookie Compliant

Original Research

TRUSTe · Original study ↗

Methodology

TRUSTe Tracker/Cookie Monitoring service analysis of 231 top UK websites, July-August 2012

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrymarketing RegionUK Channelcontent

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top UK websites: 56% share of sites with more than 25 third party trackers. Source: TRUSTe (2012). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-websites-25-plus-third-party-trackers-2012

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