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UK compliance audit.

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Compliance Score

How the score was calculated

Starting score: 100
1 high finding: −15
Final score: 85

AI Analysis

Your site has a critical accessibility issue affecting 1 element that needs urgent attention. More significantly, no consent banner was detected on your website, which means visitors cannot give or refuse consent for non-essential tracking before it runs. The good news is that the audit found no non-essential cookies currently active, so there's no immediate conflict between missing consent and active tracking — but you'll need to put a consent mechanism in place before you add any tracking tools in future. Right now, your site is compliant by accident rather than by design, and that won't hold if your tooling changes.

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HIGHwcag_aa_scan
Found 1 accessibility violation(s): 1 critical, 0 serious, 0 moderate, 0 minor

Report Details

Playbook: UK Cookie Compliance
Domain: geektown.co.uk
Started At: 17 Oct 2026, 17:38
Duration: 58s
Total Checks: 38
Report ID: wqwQyCFjz61W

Check Results

Data Capture

2 checks All passed

capture_html_initial

INFO

Captured HTML (28417 bytes) from https://www.geektown.co.uk/

capture_cookies_initial

INFO

Captured 0 cookies

Pre-Consent Cookies

2 checks All passed

check_initial_cookies

CRITICAL

No non-essential cookies found

PECR Regulation 6(1)

Cookies (except strictly necessary) require user consent BEFORE being set

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check_pre_consent_trackers

INFO

No known trackers fired before consent (6 total requests captured during page load).

PECR Regulation 6(1) & UK GDPR Article 6

Loading third-party trackers (Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, etc.) before consent is a PECR violation regardless of whether they set cookies

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Cookie Consent Banner

1 check

find_banner

INFO

No consent banner detected

No cookie consent banner was detected on this page.

PECR Regulation 6(2)

Clear and comprehensive information must be provided about cookie use

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Accessibility

1 check1 failed

wcag_aa_scan

HIGH-15

Found 1 accessibility violation(s): 1 critical, 0 serious, 0 moderate, 0 minor

Critical accessibility barrier: Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used. This violation affects users who rely on assistive technologies. 1 element(s) affected.

Website has 1 critical and 0 serious WCAG AA violations that significantly impact users with disabilities. These issues may prevent screen reader users, keyboard-only users, or users with visual impairments from accessing the cookie consent interface.

Accessibility Issues:

Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be usedcritical1 element

Ensures <meta http-equiv="refresh"> is not used for delayed refresh

Affected elements :

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="360">

How to fix

Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018, Equality Act 2010

UK websites must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards; failure may constitute disability discrimination

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Report Generation

1 check All passed

generate_summary

INFO

AI summary generated successfully

Other Checks

2 checks

screenshot_initial

INFO

Execution error: failed to upload to S3: operation error S3: PutObject, exceeded maximum number of attempts, 3, https response error StatusCode: 0, RequestID: , HostID: , request send failed, Put "http://smesolutions-smesolutions-minio:9000/artifacts/artifacts/1a369401-576c-4e7e-bd54-822368a3bd7d/screenshots/initial_state.png?x-id=PutObject": dial tcp 10.28.9.15:9000: connect: connection refused

generate_pdf

INFO

Execution error: failed to upload to S3: operation error S3: PutObject, exceeded maximum number of attempts, 3, https response error StatusCode: 0, RequestID: , HostID: , request send failed, Put "http://smesolutions-smesolutions-minio:9000/artifacts/artifacts/1a369401-576c-4e7e-bd54-822368a3bd7d/report.pdf?x-id=PutObject": dial tcp 10.28.9.15:9000: connect: connection refused

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