Is Your Cookie Banner Actually Compliant? Introducing Compliance Score for Wix

For most website owners, cookie compliance feels like a guessing game. You install a banner, hit publish, and assume your site is covered. But having a visible banner on your site does not automatically make you compliant. Privacy law follows your visitor, not your site settings – meaning the exact same setup that satisfies Europe’s GDPR can fall short of California’s “Do Not Sell or Share” mandates or transparency standards in countries like Australia and Japan.

Managing these overlapping global standards manually creates significant operational friction and legal exposure. If your tracking tags fire before an EU visitor clicks accept, or if a US visitor has no accessible way to opt out, your business faces regulatory scrutiny and damaged customer trust. To eliminate this complexity, Consentik has released Compliance Score – a live, automated compliance auditor built directly into Consentik for Wix.

What is Compliance Score?

Compliance Score audits your entire cookie setup on a single 0–100 scale, benchmarked against privacy laws across all 284 regions your visitors can come from:

• Opt-in (225 regions — EU/UK): Prior consent required (auto-block tracking, Decline button).
• Opt-out (54 regions — US states): Refusal options required (“Do Not Sell or Share”, GPC signal).
• Notice (6 regions — Japan, Australia…): Upfront transparency required (privacy policy link, re-open button).

Your score maps to three clear risk tiers:

• 🟢 Low Risk: 85+
• 🟠 Medium Risk: 60–84
• 🔥 High Risk: Below 60, or any critical check failing

Core Cookie Compliance Features and Critical Checks

The new dashboard surfaces your highest-exposure compliance gaps first and provides direct paths to resolve them. Key capabilities include:

• Critical Check Locking: Failing an essential check (such as tracking firing before consent or a missing Decline button) locks your overall score with a 🔒 note. Cosmetic fixes will not raise your score until critical issues are resolved.

• Ranked “Biggest Wins”: Open issues are sorted by urgency and regional impact (e.g., “Affects 225 opt-in regions”) so you always know what to fix first.
• One-Click Deep-Link Fixes: Each issue features a dark Fix button that jumps straight to the exact setting card in Consentik. For routine toggles, Fix all issues applies safe updates in one click.
• Smart Geo-Targeting: Evaluates each region under its local law instead of forcing a single banner to fit conflicting international rules. Enabling this single toggle often moves a locked score from 60 (High risk) to 96 (Low risk).
• Contextual & Proof-of-Consent Checks: Automatically validates Google Consent Mode v2 when Google tags are detected, and checks that your plan supports verifiable consent log exports for regulatory audits.
• Real-Time Score Refresh: Monitor your status via compact score cards on your Dashboard and Settings pages, with instant updates whenever you save changes.

How to Check and Improve Your Wix Cookie Compliance Score

Auditing your tracking setup takes only a couple of minutes directly inside your existing Consentik dashboard:

1. Open Compliance Score: Click Compliance score in the Consentik sidebar or select the score card on your Dashboard.
2. Resolve Critical Checks First: Identify any locked issues at the top of your Biggest wins list and click Fix to update the setting.
3. Turn On Smart Geo-Targeting: Enable region-specific banner modes to resolve cross-border rule conflicts automatically.
4. Save and Verify: Watch your score update instantly with an on-screen confirmation toast.

Note: Compliance Score is based on your Consentik configuration and demonstrates feature functionality; it does not constitute formal legal advice.