Technical audit · 26.05.2026

statistik.at

Austrian Federal Statistical Office

Austria's Federal Statistical Office — 27 requests, 1 domain. Zero external requests. Matomo and Google reCAPTCHA are declared in the policy — neither appeared in the HAR. The CSP permits Google, but Google stays silent.

Request timeline

+444 ms · SgCookieOptin
A TYPO3 cookie-management plugin loads from www.statistik.at. No external requests.
Session total
27 requests, 1 domain. Neither Matomo nor Google reCAPTCHA appeared in the HAR.

Declared versus actual

✓ Matomo — mentioned in the policy, no legal basis stated, absent from the HAR — declared
✓ Google reCAPTCHA — mentioned in the policy, Art. 6(1)(f), absent from the HAR — declared

Indicators of GDPR non-compliance

Context

Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) is the federal statistical office, a public-law institution. HAR: 27 requests, 1 domain. The privacy policy is in English, last updated January 2026.

One domain, zero external

27 requests — all to www.statistik.at. Source Sans 3 fonts, icons, jQuery — all local. Zero cookies, zero external requests. The CSP allows *.google.com, *.gstatic.com, and *.highcharts.com — but none of them appeared in the HAR.

Matomo and reCAPTCHA — in the policy, not in the HAR

The policy mentions Matomo for “statistical analysis of access” — with no legal basis and no mention of a consent gate. SgCookieOptin (a TYPO3 plugin) loads, but Matomo was not activated on this page. Google reCAPTCHA is declared on the basis of legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) — absent from the HAR, likely used only on pages with forms.

Conclusion

In practice, this is a clean HAR — one domain, zero trackers. The policy describes tools that were not activated during this session. The weak point: Matomo is declared without a stated legal basis, which creates a gap for when it is actually activated.

Evidence

How to verify: download the file and compute its checksum — sha256sum file.har (Linux, macOS) or certutil -hashfile file.har SHA256 (Windows); it must match the one shown. The conclusions apply to the scope of this measurement — see the limitations of the method.

Original (audit)
HAR file: at/statistik-at-2026-05-26.har
SHA-256: d3430b1e0a2480238817afde40a532cc995bd71ba76d4f90f21df8e0929ec8a0
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.