How we test sites
What the robot does
Once a week it requests the start page of each of the 975 sites in the catalog. If the site answers, the review gets a new «Checked» date; the last run was on Oct 13, 2026. When a site turns robots away, the review says «behind bot protection» instead of «opens». A site that stops opening, is parked or now belongs to another brand is taken out of the catalog.
For the score, the robot opens the start page in a phone-size browser (390 px wide) and measures five things: whether and how fast it opens, how it works on a phone, ads and pop-ups, links to legal and contact pages, and reach. It taps one empty spot to see whether a pop-up fires and clicks nothing else. The formula is on How we rate sites.
What people do
People decide whether a site may be listed, by reading its own sections, rules and age statement against our editorial policy. People write and correct the review texts and answer requests. An editor may move a score by at most ±0.3, and only with a recorded reason; the adjustment is shown in the score breakdown on the review.
What the dates mean
«Checked» is the last day the robot got the site to open. «Updated» is the last day the review text in that language was edited. A fresh «Checked» date does not mean the text was rewritten.
Limits of our testing
We do not buy subscriptions: prices and plans are quoted from the site’s own pages with the date we saw them. There are no user votes. The robot sees the site from one server in the EU, so a site may behave differently in another country. A check describes what we saw on that date; it is not a safety guarantee.
