Guardian News & Media Limited · Media · United Kingdom
Low risk. No critical or high findings.
The Guardian is a globally recognized media company specializing in news, opinion, and analysis with a strong digital presence. It operates under Guardian News & Media Limited, a UK-based enterprise with a long history dating back to 1821. The website serves a broad general audience with high-quality, professionally curated content and a consistent brand identity. The business model is primarily advertising and subscription-based, supported by a sophisticated digital infrastructure. Technically, the site employs modern web technologies including React, advanced header bidding for advertising, and comprehensive analytics and tracking tools. The site is well optimized for performance, mobile responsiveness, and accessibility. Security posture is strong, with HTTPS enforcement, security headers, and error monitoring via Sentry, though explicit security policies and incident response details are not publicly disclosed. Privacy compliance is robust, featuring clear privacy and cookie policies with consent mechanisms aligned with GDPR. Overall, the website is trustworthy, professional, and secure, with no signs of blocking or suspicious activity.
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NIS2 Art. 21(2)
The NIS2 figure counts only evidence anyone can see from the internet. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.
GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.
No critical or high findings. These medium findings are worth fixing next.
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
The banner's first layer offers "141 partners", ".", "privacy policy", "cookie policy", "Store and/or access information on a device" but no button to refuse or to accept only necessary cookies; the only alternative to accepting is a paid subscription ("pay or OK"), a model EU regulators assess case by case. The EDPB cookie banner taskforce, CNIL and the Latvian DVI expect refusing to be as easy as accepting.
What to do: Add a "Reject all" (or "Only necessary") button next to "Accept all", with the same size and prominence.
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
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Findings that cap the score at 49
Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.
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When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.
Risk levels
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.
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