Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites

Not accurate.

It has nsa.gov on the leaderboard as having no US dependencies.

It wrongly says one of my sites is using Cloudflare.

It says that one of my sites that is hosted in the US (no CDN, US IP address) has no US dependencies.

it treats social media links the same way was embeds.

it gives gov.uk a perfect score. Maybe by design because it is hosted in Europe, but if so it should not say its EU sovereignty.

I do not think that is the case because it also gives a perfect score to https://english.www.gov.cn/

I do not know how it got to the HN front page - people presumably vote it up without checking it actually works.

Its just not anywhere near accurate.

I have some feedback for OP: my personal website got 92% because there is a link to my X profile in the contact session. It's not like it relies on the service. Its just a contact and there are also links to other services such as self hosted matrix.

On the other hand my registrar is Namecheap which is in the US and your tool didn't checked for that. I think thats a lot more important in terms of dependance than a link to a social network so you could run a whois lookup to check what registrar is hosting that domain.

Nice, but for me it is reporting false information. I use Vercel, Cloudflare for DNS yet it shows 92%. The only thing it correctly reported was the LinkedIn link. (There is also a GitHub and Bluesky link, which are US companies / services as well).

So their leatherboard of good examples lists nsa.gov with 100 points.

Is this a parody?

I put in my site and it gave me a red cross for "Hosting", on hover it said "GitHub Pages". But my site isn't hosted on GitHub Pages.

Expanding "Details", the URL that is hosted on GitHub Pages is... a different website? There's merely a hyperlink to it on my website.

It also says I'm using "self-hosted" fonts - but I don't think I'm doing that at all? I'm just using the browser's fonts. Using non-standard fonts is a bad idea because it causes the content to either be invisible until the font is loaded, or else it initially shows in a fallback font and then the text all jumps when the font is loaded.

In English, unlike German, "1." doesn't mean "1st"/"first".

Apparently you get dinged for using AWS even if you're using an EU datacenter.

I'm sure you can define "EU sovereignty" in a way that's consistent with that, but that's not very useful.

Any recommendations for good European alternatives to Clooudflare? Is there an EU company that's as trustworthy when it comesq to DDoS protection?

reddit.com gets a perfect "no US dependencies" score. I guess they have servers around the world and can serve requests from a local-ish server.

Obviously this simple check only concerns the technical aspects of the website and doesn't analyse the business itself but I wonder if all .com domains should be marked down?

When I check google.com I get a 94% score? Kinda ironic no?

I get a 100% for a site hosted in GH pages and which embeds YouTube videos and Google fonts. So this does not seem to be very reliable.

Very nice tool!

The UI has a few errors on desktop, I cannot see all the issues. The leaderboard... doesn't work ? and the topbar hides some elements

browser: firefox

Nice, good idea. I need to move away from Github pages finally ;)

How is this calculated? A suspicious amount of people (including myself) get 92%...

Seems to treat finnish kapsi.fi hosting as US?

Checks hosting, analytics, fonts, cdn, video, chat, social embeds. Gives you a score from 0-100 and suggests Eu-alternatives.

Happy to see mastodon.xyz score 100%.

Mastodon is pretty cool and proof that we can make federation work.

nice idea!

If I may, and not trying to be annoying, on my screen the navigation bar (.navigation-wrapper) covers 90% of the top left buttons (aria-label=breadcrumbs).

Happens with both Chrome and Firefox, macOS, 15" macbook pro.

My customer's site got a 100% while running on azure.

I am proud my website would score a nice round 0% even though I am pure blooded european

nice idea, are you planning to open source this project?

hmm... it really miss a lot of infrastructure.

take my website for example mrtno.com - it's hosted in europe, ok. but under what legislation the domain register is based? and where is the dns server?

those a crucial information. and they are missing.

thanks for this checker, we also need HN alternative for EU only. As Europeans, I'm sure we can do this.

nsa.gov got PERFECT! NO US DEPENDENCIES lmao

This 'website' is a pile of steaming vibecoded garbage that doesn't even work or do what it claims.

It remaining alive on the frontpage here only serves to underline how politically irrational the userbase of HN has gotten.

microsoft.com got 92%

my blog which is hosted on namecheap.com, server whois is Los Angeles, got 100%

I guess this is another vibe coding AI slop service which doesn't even render its own top buttons properly (they're covered by some white div).

Have mercy, web devs!