Trust Index · Shopping
Walmart gets a C. Here's what loads before you agree
Checked October 25, 2026 in a US browser, with no choice made on any banner.
Grade C
walmart.com
79/100
- Online since 1995, 31 years
- No consent banner seen
- Built with Next.js
Consent and tracking45
Security91
Accessibility91
Transparency100
What cost it points
- high
Ad networks log your visit before you choose.
- medium
No banner asks you, so there's nothing to refuse.
- low
Your browser may guess file types attackers can abuse.
- low
Keyboard users can't skip the menu.
- low
Full page addresses can leak to third parties.
- 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
- Google Ads / DoubleClick
- Analytics
- None
- Cookies before a choice
- 23
- Session recording
- None
- Consent banner
- None
- Opt-out link
- Yes
The fine print
- Terms of use
- Couldn't read it
- Privacy policy
- 34 min read (opens in a new tab) · 7,980 words
- Forced arbitration
- Unknown
- Class-action waiver
- Unknown
- AI in the privacy policy
- 3 mentions
- 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
- Yes
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