Introduction
Understand the Fix Scanner Issues Requirements that GDPR and ePrivacy-style audits expect on a live site—consent UI quality, pre-consent blocking, policy transparency, and verification evidence—so remediation clears automated findings instead of only changing copy.
What it means
Fix Scanner Issues Requirements start with behavior, not branding: a banner that appears but does not block tags still fails scanners that measure network and cookie state before any click.
Pre-consent requirement: on a first-time EU-style session, no analytics, ads, or marketing storage or third-party requests until the user opts in—or after Reject all those channels stay blocked.
UI requirement: Accept all and Reject all on the first layer with equal prominence; Close/X must not grant consent; preference centers cannot hide rejection behind multiple screens.
Script-order requirement: the consent guard or CMP blocking layer must load synchronously before GTM, gtag, and hardcoded marketing snippets in the HTML head of every scanned URL template.
Transparency requirement: Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy (or declaration) links must be discoverable from the footer and banner, and the cookie table must match cookies actually set after Accept.
Evidence requirement: fixes are not complete until a clean private-window check and a fresh scanner run on the same production URL confirm high-severity findings are cleared.
Why it matters
Buyers, agencies, and activists treat scanner reports as objective evidence. Sites that fail Fix Scanner Issues Requirements lose deals and delay campaigns even when a CMP logo is visible.
Regulators evaluate the same signals scanners automate—pre-consent trackers, unfair Accept nudging, missing Reject, and policy gaps. Meeting these requirements reduces both automated red flags and complaint risk.
Documented requirements turn one-off firefights into a repeatable acceptance checklist for theme, GTM, and landing-page releases so marketing changes do not reintroduce failures.
Common mistakes
- Treating a visible banner as sufficient without verifying zero non-essential network requests before interaction.
- Fixing only the homepage while campaign landing pages and subdomains still load GTM without a guard.
- Publishing Reject all that closes the modal but leaves analytics_storage or marketing tags granted.
- Updating the cookie declaration without stopping pre-consent cookies—or the reverse.
- Setting Consent Mode defaults after gtag/GTM has already executed with granted-like behavior.
- Rescanning in the same browser after Accept, then claiming the scanner is wrong.
- Skipping CDN or edge cache purge so scanners still see the old script order.
Practical checklist
- Baseline: scan the exact production URL(s) in a clean session; export high-severity findings.
- Confirm Accept all and Reject all on layer one with equal visual weight; Reject denies non-essential categories.
- Place CMP / runtime guard as the first synchronous script in <head> before GTM and analytics on every template you scan.
- Block non-essential tags until the matching category is granted; set Consent Mode v2 defaults to denied before Google tags load.
- Link Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy from footer and banner; align the declaration table with live cookies after Accept.
- Private-window verify: no non-essential requests before interaction; Reject keeps blockers across two navigations.
- Purge CDN cache if needed, rescan, and archive report IDs with fix dates for audit evidence.
How GDPRChecker helps
GDPRChecker’s free scanner loads your page as a first-time visitor and maps findings to the Fix Scanner Issues Requirements above—pre-consent requests, missing Reject, policy gaps, and banner-not-blocking behavior.
Use the report to prioritize remediation, then rescan the same URL to prove requirements are met on live HTML and network behavior—not only in a CMP preview.
Pair scans with GDPRChecker runtime blocking so Accept/Reject choices enforce tag rules instead of leaving a cosmetic banner that scanners still fail.