ConformTrail ConformTrail: website compliance evidence and monitoring

Free scan

How many of these patterns are on your public pages?

Type the address of a website you are responsible for. We read the home page and a few public pages linked from it and tell you how many patterns were observed and of which kind. The count is free. The page, the date, the screenshot and the wording of the rule are the paid report. This is not legal advice.

The address

A public website, for example https://example.com. No IP addresses, no ports, no pages behind a login.
Read the method first

A few scans per address per day. Above that the form asks you to come back later.

What the answer says, and what it does not

What you see

  • The number of patterns that were observed
  • Which kinds they were
  • The date of the scan
  • How many pages we read

What you do not see

  • Which single pattern sits where
  • The page it was observed on
  • The text that was displayed, and the element it sits in
  • The screenshot and the wording of the rule

Those are the report. There is no other way to them.

What we keep

One log line with the domain you entered and the number of observations. No findings, no screenshots, no pages, nothing about you: no address, no email, no account. The result page is not stored and is shown to nobody else.

How the site is read

  • The home page and a few public pages linked from it.
  • robots.txt first. A page address you disallow is not opened.
  • At most one request per second per host, and the scan stops on its own.
  • Only GET. No form is submitted, no login is attempted, nothing is uploaded.
  • Our crawler identifies itself as ConformTrailBot/1.0 (+https://conformtrail.com/bot). What it does and how to block it is on the crawler page.

What is looked for

  • A testimonial or review widget without an adjacent disclosure
  • A rating or rating logo without date, period, rater or compensation
  • Performance figures or hypothetical/backtested returns on a public page
  • A website statement that the firm has no conflicts of interest
  • The page claims FINRA membership and carries no BrokerCheck reference

The paid report looks at more than this free scan does, and it says on which pages it looked. Whether a statement on a page is adequate is a judgement for the supervisor; we report the pattern the supervisor described. This is not legal advice.