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Technical audit · 2026-06-16

cbs.nl

Website of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands
NL

Cbs.nl is the website of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands, the national statistics agency. Homepage scan: 38 requests, 13 domains. The configuration is restrained. The bureau runs its web statistics on its own Piwik PRO account, with requests going out without a visitor identifier, and not a single cookie was set during the session. Additionally, a passive survey tool, a video platform for video previews, and functional UI libraries run. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no Facebook, no advertising, no session recording, and no third-party commercial trackers. No violations were recorded.

Timeline of the leak

545–571 ms · own CDN, libraries, and video
The site's own CDN, functional UI libraries, and a video preview from the video platform load. This is page styling and functioning.
738 ms · own Piwik PRO statistics
The bureau's own web statistics load on the Piwik PRO platform, under the organization's own account.
884 ms · survey tool
A passive survey tool connects — feedback collection triggered by the user.
1426 ms · pageview sent
The statistics tool sends pageview data without parameters tied to a visitor identifier, consistent with anonymized mode. No cookie is set in the process.
cookieless statistics, no consent required
The web statistics run without cookies and without a visitor identifier in requests, and are therefore exempt from consent. Not a single cookie was set during the session.

Declared versus actual

✓ Piwik PRO (statistics) — заявлен

Detected trackers

Context

www.cbs.nl is the website of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek): official statistics, data, and publications. The data controller is CBS, a government organization. The site is informational.

Scan: 38 requests to 13 domains, homepage, captured in a clean Edge browser without a VPN or ad blocker. The technical stack is restrained.

Who receives the data

There are no third-party commercial recipients.

The bureau runs its web statistics on its own Piwik PRO platform account. Additionally, a passive survey tool, a video platform for video previews, and functional UI libraries run. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no advertising networks, no social media pixels, and no session recording.

A full banner for the statistics is not required here: it runs on the bureau’s own account, requests go out without a visitor identifier, and not a single cookie was set during the session. This is consistent with a cookieless mode exempt from consent. The video platform in the scan only serves a video preview, and the survey tool runs on user request.

Only anonymized in-house statistics and functional elements. Before any interaction, web statistics on the bureau’s own account without cookies, a video preview, a survey tool, and UI libraries all fire. The scan contains no Google analytics, no advertising domains, no social plugins, and no session recording.

Conclusion

Cbs.nl is a restrained configuration for a national statistics agency. Web statistics run on the bureau’s own Piwik PRO account, without cookies and without a visitor identifier in requests, and aside from that, only functional services run — a video platform for previews and a survey tool. There is no third-party advertising, no Google analytics, no social media pixels, and no session recording whatsoever. The key takeaway for the reader: a statistics agency can manage with its own anonymized statistics alone, and here that is achieved without a single third-party commercial tracker and without a single cookie. No violations were recorded.

Evidence
Original (audit)
HAR file: nl/cbs-nl-2026-06-16.har
SHA-256: 33f713c58d57fe2570ee21018b417a1f8205f65b917084f0a81062acc241a190
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.