EDPB Website Auditing Tool
The facts below are what the maker publishes about EDPB Website Auditing Tool, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From EDPB Website Auditing Tool's own pricing page, checked 14 Nov 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free and Open Source | Free | EUPL 1.2 licence |
| Free and Open Source Software | Free | EUPL 1.2 licence |
The facts
Each one read from EDPB Website Auditing Tool's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audit workflow
- A tutorial covers configuration, tracker evaluation and the final audit report.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Collaboration and server storage
- The local and SaaS versions were upgraded to share information with a secure server database to support collaboration.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Ease of use
- It is meant to be easy to use so national DPAs can enforce the law and controllers can check compliance.checked 14 Nov 2026
- EDPS integration
- It can import and evaluate audits from the EDPS website evidence collector.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Filter lists
- It uses the EasyPrivacy list and the Fanboy’s Annoyance list.checked 14 Nov 2026
- How audits run
- Audits can be prepared, completed and evaluated in the tool by visiting the website.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Import/export
- The updated tool supports analysis import and export.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Import, export and screenshots
- The updated tool adds analysis import/export and full-page screenshots.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Integration
- Auditors can import and evaluate results from the EDPS website evidence collector.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Intended users
- It is intended for legal and technical auditors at DPAs, as well as controllers and processors testing their own websites.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Knowledge base
- Users can search the knowledge database, update a database, and manage multiple databases with a source and a trust level.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Knowledge databases
- Users can update databases, choose whether to add or remove elements, and manage multiple databases with source and trust level information.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Knowledge database search
- It provides search in the knowledge database during analysis or while exploring the database.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Languages
- The tool is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, and the EDPB does not guarantee the automatic translations.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Purpose
- It helps analyse whether websites are compliant with the law.checked 14 Nov 2026
- SaaS limitation
- The first limited server version offered a subset of local features and was limited to knowledge databases or audits stored locally or in browser storage.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Screenshot feature
- The tool supports full-page screenshots.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Self-hosted SaaS
- A SaaS build can be served from Apache2 or Nginx, and a Dockerfile is included to build and test that service.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Signing limit
- Not all versions are signed, and users are told to use the official releases page or compile the software themselves.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Support
- Issues and improvement suggestions go to the code.europa.eu project, and end-user documentation is in the doc folder.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Support and learning
- The product page links a short video tutorial to guide users through its features and audit stages.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Trackers and reports
- It collects evidence, analyses it and generates reports on trackers used by websites.checked 14 Nov 2026
Where it runs
- Desktop platforms
- Release 3.0.1 is published as a Mac universal disk image, a Linux amd64 deb package and a Windows setup executable.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Platforms
- The 2025 version 1.3 included local software for Mac, Windows and GNU/Linux, along with a first limited SaaS version.checked 14 Nov 2026
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