By category
What different kinds of sites load
Median per site in each category — what sites tried to load during a controlled visit, before any blocking. Heaviest first.
News & media
9 sites50
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 198
- 3rd-party cookies
- 8
- Brave would block
- 84
Health
9 sites29
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 76
- 3rd-party cookies
- 4
- Brave would block
- 53
Shopping
9 sites24
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 135
- 3rd-party cookies
- 3
- Brave would block
- 42
Government
7 sites8
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 15
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 12
Education
4 sites5
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 15
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 5
Kids & education
9 sites4
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 50
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 7
Banking & money
9 sites3
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 67
- 3rd-party cookies
- 4
- Brave would block
- 13
Dating
6 sites2
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 27
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 13
Search & social
9 sites0
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 80
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 0
Government (international)
4 sites0
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 1
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 0
Nonprofit & advocacy
6 sites0
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 1
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 0
Community & personal
3 sites0
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 0
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 0
Open source & tech
7 sites0
median catalogued tracker requests per site- Third-party reqs
- 0
- 3rd-party cookies
- 0
- Brave would block
- 0
Medians from one controlled visit per site, using the curated service catalog (a lower bound). A 0 means no catalogued third-party trackers were seen — large platforms like Google, YouTube, and X serve much of their own tracking first-party, which is not counted as third-party here. “Brave would block” is the median third-party requests Brave’s default Shields would remove, from a block simulation.