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What this actually means
wordpress.org recorded 7 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.
The visit with no blocking made 50 requests; the visit configured to apply Brave's ad-block engine and default Shields filter lists (a simulation in this scanner's browser, not a live Brave-browser visit) recorded 7 fewer third-party requests. The blocker directly stopped 2 requests; the remaining difference may include follow-on requests that never started once their sources were blocked, plus run-to-run variance.
The scan observed signals a non-expert should not have to decode from raw request tables.
The cards below translate the evidence into plain language; severity reflects fixed reference thresholds, not measured population percentiles. The request log, domain table, and methodology remain below for verification.
50 requests observed in one controlled visit.
Context
7 requests matched Brave Shields filter lists
7 requests matched the default filter lists of Brave Shields, the ad and tracker blocker built into the Brave browser, while loading normally.
Computed with Brave's own ad-block engine and default filter lists in classification mode: matched requests were not blocked by the scanner and remain in this report's observed request counts. Matching shows what Shields would target on this visit's traffic; an actual Shields visit blocks these and also prevents their follow-on requests, so this number is neither a measured block count nor the total effect.
The hand-curated service catalog separately matched 5 request rows in this visit.Show matched requests
Nothing observed
Lower values observed across comparable metrics in the Brave-list blocking attempt
With the scanner configured to apply Brave's ad-block engine and default Shields filter lists (a simulation in this scanner's browser, not a live Brave-browser visit; application was not verified), this paired visit showed 7 fewer third-party requests and 5 fewer tracking-related service requests.
Services only seen in the unblocked visit: Google. The blocking visit's engine directly blocked 2 requests; the remaining difference may include follow-on requests that never started once their sources were blocked. A single paired comparison can also reflect run-to-run variance (ad rotation, caching, experiments), so treat this as an observed difference, not a measured blocking rate.
Signed per-metric differences between the two visits; nothing is summed across metrics.Show matched requests
Context
Privacy policy read; it made no statement this scan can check
None of the statements this scan knows how to check appear in the policy text, so nothing was compared against this visit's evidence (1 of 1 observed tracking company named in the policy). That is a limit of the automated check, not a finding about the site either way.
Statements checked automatically: blanket no-cookie claims, third-party-cookie claims, and combined do-not-sell-or-share claims against advertising-pixel identifier fields. Global Privacy Control claims are never checked against request counts, which cannot show whether selling or sharing stopped.
Policy at https://wordpress.org/about/privacy; 0 checkable statements matched; 1 of 1 observed tracking company named in the policy.
Context
Catalogued service domains recorded responses during this visit
Google appeared in the request log.
A catalog match identifies a maintainer-reviewed service/domain mapping; it does not establish why an individual request occurred, what it carried, or whether profiling happened. Functional catalog labels include analytics / tag management and advertising. This scan could not identify 3 of the 6 third-party hosts recorded here, so it cannot say who operates them. That is a limit of identity coverage, not evidence about the site.
The automated visit did not observe third-party cookies.
This does not prove the site never uses cookies; it means this visit did not observe third-party cookies.
2 cookies total in this report.No third-party cookies observed.
Nothing observed
No fingerprint-like API calls observed
The scan did not observe the instrumented high-entropy browser APIs.
This is an observation layer, not proof that fingerprinting is impossible.
0 API families recorded.
Brave Shields Comparison
No blocking → Brave-list blocking delta
No blocking: 2,958msBrave-list blocking: 2,230ms
Some deltas are not comparable across these two visits and are not shown.
Other detector and causal-path deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): v1 never recorded detector versions, so fingerprinting and pixel deltas cannot be proven to come from matching instrumentation.
The Shields-number delta (each visit's own evidence still renders below): The two visits measured different Shields quantities (filter-list matches vs engine-blocked requests), which must never share a delta.
Fingerprinting deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): At least one visit did not complete the fingerprint measurement, so no exact cross-visit delta is shown.
Ad-pixel deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): At least one visit did not complete the pixel measurement, so no exact cross-visit delta is shown.
Every signed change is Brave-list blocking minus No blocking. A positive or negative direction is descriptive, not a judgment that the result is better or worse.
Cookie and storage count deltas include every observation. Name-level lists show only reviewed names; unreviewed names are not itemized because they can contain identifiers.
Visible cookie names only with Brave-list blocking
No visible cookie-name changes to show; privacy-filtered names are not itemized.
Visible cookie names only with No blocking
_ga.wordpress.orgfirst-party
Visible storage keys only with Brave-list blocking
No visible storage-key changes to show; privacy-filtered keys are not itemized.
Visible storage keys only with No blocking
No visible storage-key changes to show; privacy-filtered keys are not itemized.
Entities only with Brave-list blocking
No entity changes observed.
Entities only with No blocking
Google3 domains5
Measurement limits
6 conditions affect how this evidence reads
This report
Brave-list blocking comparison runs should be collected under matched crawl conditions, and the blocking run is a simulation with Brave's engine and default lists in this scanner's browser, not a live Brave visit. Differences can still reflect timing, experiments, cache state, consent state, or bot detection.
The two visits ran in randomized order; the "No blocking" visit ran first.
Both visits
Each visit in this report is one automated, headless Chromium visit from a fixed en-US / UTC profile, with no scrolling, clicking, or consent interaction. Sites can behave differently for real users, browsers, regions, accounts, or network locations.
Counts are a lower bound: trackers that load only after interaction or consent are not observed; Service Workers are blocked, and Web Worker or WebSocket traffic may be incomplete. Service labels use a US-biased hand-curated catalog, so regional services may be under-labeled. Cookie and storage figures are an end-of-visit snapshot, with storage keys read from the top frame only.
Read the site's privacy policy (https://wordpress.org/about/privacy) and compared its text against this visit's observed behavior. Policy checks are an automated text match with the matched sentences quoted, not a legal reading.
Brave-list blocking visit only
Brave Shields block simulation was enabled; matching requests were aborted before loading and are not included in request totals.
How to use this report
Read the findings and measurement limits first, then inspect the evidence for each recorded visit. Comparisons include both visits, even where a difference cannot be interpreted.
Keep this PDF with its evidence package: the source JSON, correction context, export receipt and SHA256SUMS. The package preserves source bytes and the correction context at export time. Hashes check file consistency; they do not establish independent measurement accuracy or a signed attestation.
2026-08-03T11:03:25.493Z · complete; derived from status and warnings
Retained observations from this visit. Missing measurements do not establish absence of activity.
Request attribution map
Which actor each third-party request is attributed to, from the initiator the browser reported. Attribution, not causation: an initiator may itself have been told what to fetch, and requests with no reported initiator are not distinguished from ones fetched from several. Asterisks mark subdomain labels hidden for privacy.
Attributed requests
0
Not attributable
21
Third-party requests
21
No unique actor could be assigned to 21 of these requests. That includes requests for which the browser reported no usable initiator, and repeated URLs seen with conflicting initiators. This report does not distinguish those causes, so they are counted together rather than drawn.
21 third-party requests: 0 attributed to a single recorded actor, 21 not attributable.
No retained third-party request has one recorded actor to draw. This is not evidence that no actor was involved: the visit may have reported no actor or several actors for the same request.
By the numbers
Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests5021 third-party
Matched Shields lists7classification reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains61 distinct catalogued service entity
Every domain this visit recorded, with its role, request count and catalog match.
Domain
Role
Requests
Catalog match
Resource types
www.googletagmanager.com
service
2
Google: analytics / tag management
script
analytics.google.com
service
2
Google: analytics / tag management
fetch
*.*.doubleclick.net
service
1
Google: advertising
ping
*.wp.com
third-party
14
No catalog match
image, script
*.w.org
third-party
1
No catalog match
image
pixel.wp.com
third-party
1
No catalog match
image
wordpress.org
first-party
29
No catalog match
document, font, stylesheet, script, image, fetch
Request log
50 recorded requests
In hosts and URLs, * and … mark details hidden for privacy.
Request references name this visit's retained JSON rows in order (B = baseline, V = variant, S = single). R0001 is the first request row.
Every request row this visit retained, with its time, status, resource type, domain and recorded provenance.
Ref
Time
Status
Type
Domain
Provenance
URL
B:R0001
41ms
200
document
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/
B:R0002
153ms
200
font
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0003
153ms
200
font
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0004
154ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0005
159ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0006
159ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0007
159ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0008
160ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0009
160ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0010
160ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0011
161ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0012
161ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0013
162ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0014
240ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0015
241ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0016
241ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0017
270ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0018
298ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0019
299ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0020
300ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0021
300ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0022
301ms
200
script
www.googletagmanager.com
Not attributed
https://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id
B:R0023
302ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0024
302ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0025
303ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0026
303ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0027
304ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0028
304ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0029
304ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0030
304ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0031
305ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0032
305ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0033
305ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0034
305ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0035
306ms
200
image
*.w.org
Not attributed
https://*.w.org/…
B:R0036
306ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0037
306ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0038
306ms
200
script
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…
B:R0039
306ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0040
337ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0041
338ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0042
338ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0043
339ms
200
font
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0044
436ms
200
image
pixel.wp.com
Not attributed
https://pixel.wp.com/…?v&…&ref
B:R0045
440ms
200
fetch
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0046
463ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
B:R0047
560ms
200
script
www.googletagmanager.com
Not attributed
https://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id&…
B:R0048
701ms
204
fetch
analytics.google.com
Not attributed
https://analytics.google.com/…?v&tid&…&cid
B:R0049
702ms
204
ping
*.*.doubleclick.net
Not attributed
https://*.*.doubleclick.net/…?v&…&tid&cid
B:R0050
702ms
204
fetch
analytics.google.com
Not attributed
https://analytics.google.com/…?v&tid&…&cid
Brave-list blocking — evidence
2026-08-03T11:03:28.459Z · complete; derived from status and warnings
Retained observations from this visit. Missing measurements do not establish absence of activity.
Request attribution map
Which actor each third-party request is attributed to, from the initiator the browser reported. Attribution, not causation: an initiator may itself have been told what to fetch, and requests with no reported initiator are not distinguished from ones fetched from several. Asterisks mark subdomain labels hidden for privacy.
Attributed requests
0
Not attributable
14
Third-party requests
14
No unique actor could be assigned to 14 of these requests. That includes requests for which the browser reported no usable initiator, and repeated URLs seen with conflicting initiators. This report does not distinguish those causes, so they are counted together rather than drawn.
14 third-party requests: 0 attributed to a single recorded actor, 14 not attributable.
No retained third-party request has one recorded actor to draw. This is not evidence that no actor was involved: the visit may have reported no actor or several actors for the same request.
By the numbers
Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests4314 third-party
Blocked by Brave lists2engine blocks reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains20 distinct catalogued service entities
Every domain this visit recorded, with its role, request count and catalog match.
Domain
Role
Requests
Catalog match
Resource types
*.wp.com
third-party
13
No catalog match
image
*.w.org
third-party
1
No catalog match
image
wordpress.org
first-party
29
No catalog match
document, font, stylesheet, script, image, fetch
Request log
43 recorded requests
In hosts and URLs, * and … mark details hidden for privacy.
Request references name this visit's retained JSON rows in order (B = baseline, V = variant, S = single). R0001 is the first request row.
Every request row this visit retained, with its time, status, resource type, domain and recorded provenance.
Ref
Time
Status
Type
Domain
Provenance
URL
V:R0001
40ms
200
document
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/
V:R0002
151ms
200
font
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0003
151ms
200
font
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0004
151ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0005
152ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0006
156ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0007
157ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0008
157ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0009
158ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0010
158ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0011
158ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0012
159ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0013
159ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0014
227ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0015
240ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0016
242ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0017
242ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0018
248ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0019
249ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0020
261ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0021
296ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0022
298ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0023
298ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0024
299ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0025
300ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0026
300ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0027
300ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0028
301ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0029
301ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0030
301ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0031
301ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0032
302ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0033
303ms
200
image
*.wp.com
Not attributed
https://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0034
303ms
200
image
*.w.org
Not attributed
https://*.w.org/…
V:R0035
304ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0036
304ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0037
304ms
200
stylesheet
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0038
337ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0039
338ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0040
338ms
200
image
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0041
338ms
200
font
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0042
387ms
200
fetch
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
V:R0043
422ms
200
script
wordpress.org
Not attributed
https://wordpress.org/…
This versioned report is currently retained in the public corpus. Follow the currently retained site history, repeat the same public route when it is available, or request a transparent evidence correction.
Exact build and instrument digests were not recorded by this legacy schema.
Variant visit
Started
Run quality
complete; derived from status and warnings
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
151.0.7922.34
Redaction
not recorded by this schema
Provenance
Exact build and instrument digests were not recorded by this legacy schema.
Recorded provenance is self-reported measurement metadata, not a cryptographic attestation. The public versioned report JSON contains the retained public evidence; see the methodology for interpretation and retention limits.
This report covers what the scanner measures, not everything a site can do. 16 browser surfaces are not instrumented at all (Every page except the one that was scanned; Anything that only loads after scrolling or interaction; Why a request happened, as a causal chain; and 13 others), 3 capabilities are declined by policy, and 3 are outside what any single visit can see. Their absence from this report is not evidence that they did not occur. Read the published coverage boundary.
Detector accuracy is unmeasured. No calibration study currently publishes a precision or recall for the detectors on this page, so a detector match here is a recorded observation, not a calibrated classification. How detector accuracy is measured.
Approved use boundary: This report is investigative evidence that requires independent corroboration. It is not a standalone legal determination and not the sole exhibit in a legal proceeding. Recorded in this project's release manifest on .
Reports record one automated visit per condition; visits may be incomplete. Results describe these visits, not everything a site can do.