ecb.europa.eu

Context

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the eurozone, responsible for the monetary policy of 20 EU member states. Governed by Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. It publishes data on inflation, interest rates, and eurozone statistics. HAR: 89 requests, 1 domain.

What the HAR shows

One domain — www.ecb.europa.eu. Absolutely everything loads from the proprietary server: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, and inflation data in XML (data/inflation.xml). Not a single external request — no Google Fonts, no webtools.europa.eu, no CDN. Zero Set-Cookie responses, zero consent requests.

An interesting detail: the homepage loads inflation.xml with a hash — current eurozone inflation data, served directly from the ECB’s own server.

Myracloud — a European WAF

The header server: myracloud points to Myracloud, a German service (Myra Security GmbH, Munich) — a European WAF and DDoS protection provider. Unlike Cloudflare (USA), Myracloud operates exclusively within the EU. Visitor data does not leave European infrastructure, even at the CDN/WAF level.

Comparison within the institutions series

Europol uses webtools.europa.eu (22 requests). The European Parliament uses webtools.europa.eu (11 requests). The ECB has zero external dependencies whatsoever. The only fully self-sufficient site in the EU institutions series.

Conclusion

The eurozone’s central bank — one domain, zero external requests, a European WAF. The architectural maximum among all sites in the series.