Trust Index · Government and health
National Institutes of Health gets a B. Here's what loads before you agree
Checked October 25, 2026 in a US browser, with no choice made on any banner.
Grade B
nih.gov
85/100
- No consent banner seen
Consent and tracking100
Security100
Accessibility54
Transparency95
What cost it points
- high
Screen readers can't describe these images.
- high
Buttons don't say what they do.
- low
Embedded frames have no names.
- low
Headings don't outline the page.
- low
No published way to report a security hole.
- low
"Learn more" links don't say where they go.
What loaded before you chose
Third-party trackers that fired before any choice, across 2 visits.
- Ad trackers
- None
- Analytics
- None
- Cookies before a choice
- 1
- Session recording
- None
- Consent banner
- None
- Opt-out link
- No
The fine print
- Terms of use
- Couldn't read it
- Privacy policy
- 14 min read (opens in a new tab) · 3,386 words
- Forced arbitration
- Unknown
- Class-action waiver
- Unknown
- AI in the privacy policy
- 1 mention
- Accessibility statement
- Yes
Read automatically, so unusual wording can be missed. Not scored.
Security
- HTTPS
- Yes
- HSTS
- Yes
- Content-Security-Policy
- Yes
- Framing blocked
- Yes
- Secret keys in code
- None
- security.txt
- No
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