No privacy policy linked
69.6%
of the 3,044 free scans considered in the last 30 days raised this finding. That is 2,119 scans across 2,105 distinct sites. 95% interval 67.6% to 71.5%.
What it means
A missing privacy policy is both a trust signal and, in many jurisdictions, a legal requirement.
How to fix it
Publish a privacy policy and link it from the footer of every page. If you use analytics or a contact form, most jurisdictions require one.
How to check it yourself
Open the site footer and look for a link labeled Privacy Policy. If it is missing from the footer and every other page, none is linked.
What fixed looks like
The footer of every page links to a privacy policy describing how visitor data is handled.
How we measured this
Go Voltic scans a site and records which findings it raises. The share above is over every free four-page scan in the last 30 days that loaded at least one page, which is 3,044 scans. Deep scans of paid reports and of the research sweep read a site at a different depth and are a separate population, never in this denominator. It is not a survey and it is not an estimate: it is a count of what our own scanner found. Sites are counted once each in the distinct-sites figure, so a site scanned twice does not weigh double there.
The interval is a 95% Wilson interval. A share printed without its sample size reads as certainty and is indistinguishable from a guess, so both are always shown. Figures on this page were computed on 2026-09-08.
The same share sits beside every other finding on the benchmarks page, which also carries the whole table as CSV and JSON and says how to cite it.
Check your own site
The free scan reads four pages and reports every finding it raises, including this one. It takes about ten seconds and asks for nothing but the address.