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EU Website Security Benchmark

We scan 822307 European websites every week — banking, pharma, e-commerce, government, tech. No individual sites are named. The question isn't who failed. It's which industries are exposed.

40.1/100

Average score

100%

Email spoofable

84%

No DNSSEC

31%

Missing security headers

How does your industry compare?

Security posture by industry — sorted by average score. Click an industry to see its detailed breakdown.

Industry Sites Score Unprotected Spoofable Pre-Consent Grade distribution
Real Estate 12006
38.6
27% 100% 22%
D
F
Hospitality 110591
39.3
32% 100% 17%
D
F
Automotive 36073
39.6
30% 100% 16%
D
F
NGO & Nonprofit 11915
39.6
28% 100% 19%
D
F
Fashion 28371
39.8
27% 100% 18%
D
F
pets 3492
39.8
31% 100% 15%
D
F
Sports 46457
39.8
31% 100% 16%
D
F
construction 13398
39.9
30% 100% 13%
D
F
Food & Delivery 231427
40.0
32% 100% 13%
D
F
home-garden 27165
40.0
31% 100% 15%
D
F
culture 29977
40.1
31% 100% 17%
D
F
Travel 23343
40.2
32% 100% 17%
D
F
beauty 30236
40.3
32% 100% 12%
D
F
Education 97056
40.4
29% 100% 20%
D
F
Logistics 2221
40.6
31% 100% 16%
D
F
Pharma 13767
40.7
26% 100% 14%
D
F
professional-services 15529
40.7
30% 100% 16%
D
F
Healthcare 51656
40.8
30% 100% 14%
D
F
Media 4119
41.2
33% 100% 24%
D
F
Technology 17882
41.6
31% 100% 16%
D
F
Insurance 2990
42.3
25% 100% 13%
D
F
Energy 1782
42.9
28% 100% 16%
D
F
Adult 330
44.4
59% 100% 11%
D
F
Government 1623
46.0
24% 99% 24%
C
D
F
E-Commerce 4378
46.3
39% 100% 17%
D
F
Transport 490
46.3
36% 100% 19%
C
D
F
Banking 2985
46.8
16% 100% 14%
C
D
F
Gambling 327
48.4
50% 99% 12%
C
D
F
Telecom 372
49.1
36% 100% 21%
C
D
F
Regulatory 348
50.5
35% 100% 33%
C
D
F

Click a column header to sort. Column explanations: Unprotected = missing 3+ critical HTTP headers. Spoofable = no or weak DMARC.

A B C D F

Security across Europe

Average security score by country — hover for details, click to explore.

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What we found

The most common security gaps across 822307 European websites — and the regulations they violate.

31%

Missing Security Headers

Visitors are exposed to clickjacking, XSS, and content injection because critical HTTP headers are missing.

NIS2 Art. 21

100%

Weak Email Authentication

Emails from these domains can be spoofed — invoices, password resets, anything. No DMARC enforcement.

NIS2 Art. 21 / DORA Art. 9

84%

No DNSSEC

DNS responses are unsigned. Attackers can redirect visitors to fake sites without detection.

NIS2 Art. 21
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99%
No MTA-STS
Inbound emails can be downgraded to plaintext by an attacker — the server doesn't enforce TLS.
NIS2 Art. 21
98%
No SMTP Encryption
Email is transmitted in cleartext. Anyone on the network can read it.
GDPR Art. 32
99%
No security.txt
No public vulnerability disclosure contact — security researchers have nowhere to report issues.
CRA Art. 11
97%
No CAA Records
Any certificate authority can issue certificates for this domain — no restrictions.
NIS2 Art. 21
73%
No HTTPS Redirect
Visitors connect over unencrypted HTTP. Credentials and data are visible on the network.
GDPR Art. 32
90%
No DANE/TLSA
No certificate pinning for email transport — vulnerable to man-in-the-middle on SMTP.
NIS2 Art. 21

Methodology & Scoring

How we scan, what we measure, how scores are computed.

Every site is scanned weekly across these security dimensions. Scores are computed on a 100-point scale.

Security Headers 25 pts

HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy

SSL/TLS Certificate 20 pts

Key strength, signature algorithm, chain depth, TLS version, forward secrecy

HTTPS Enforcement 10 pts

HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect for all visitors

Email Authentication 15 pts

SPF, DKIM (key strength), DMARC (policy enforcement)

DNS Security 15 pts

DNSSEC signing, CAA records, DoH consistency, DANE/TLSA

security.txt 5 pts

Vulnerability disclosure contact per RFC 9116

MTA-STS 3 pts

Inbound email TLS enforcement (enforce vs. testing mode)

TLS-RPT 2 pts

SMTP TLS failure reporting endpoint

Server Privacy 5 pts

No server version disclosure, no X-Powered-By, restricted CORS

Data based on automated weekly scans of publicly accessible websites.

No individual site names are disclosed. All statistics are anonymised by industry.

Regulatory references indicate which requirements relate to each finding. They do not assert non-compliance of any specific organisation.

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