Eco-design & Cookieless

I build websites that drop zero cookies. No Google Analytics. No Meta Pixel. No Hotjar, Clarity, Intercom or Crisp. No advertising trackers. Not even Google Fonts — yes, loading a font from Google's servers already constitutes a transfer of personal data under GDPR.

External resources? Same philosophy. No Bootstrap or Tailwind loaded from a CDN. No jQuery, FontAwesome, Swiper or other libraries fetched on the fly. Everything is self-hosted. Everything is local. Everything is under control.

Let's be honest: relying on external resources is extremely convenient and comfortable. Importing a UI component from a global CDN or using a ready-made third-party analytics solution saves valuable development time. But choosing independence and managing the entire architecture autonomously requires rigorous discipline and firm convictions. It means optimising and maintaining your own files, writing custom code rather than reaching for heavy libraries, and systematically refusing technical shortcuts in order to guarantee the absolute privacy of your visitors.

Why build a cookieless website?

• Zero cookie banner. That popup everyone furiously closes the moment they land on your site? Gone. Not because it's been hidden — but because there is legally nothing to consent to. Without non-essential cookies, no banner is required.[3]
• A smooth experience from the very first millisecond. No requests firing off to 12 third-party servers before the page renders. The site loads what it needs and nothing more.
• Better performance. Every external call is a dependency, a latency, a potential point of failure. Zero external calls = faster, more stable site, better Core Web Vitals scores.
• A genuine eco-design commitment. Less data in transit, fewer servers involved, less energy consumed. The digital sector accounts for 3.7% of global GHG emissions[1] — a lean website is also a responsible one.

Why third-party resources raise a GDPR issue

Take Google Fonts as an example. This tool doesn't strictly set a cookie. But when your browser loads a font from Google's servers, it sends your IP address externally — which constitutes personal data under GDPR.

The same logic applies to all similar tools: Bootstrap CDN, FontAwesome, embedded Google Maps, Meta Pixel, Hotjar, Clarity. As soon as a resource is loaded from a third-party server, an IP address is transmitted — and without the user's explicit consent, this exposes the website owner to a GDPR compliance failure.

Data sovereignty and performance

Hosting a website responsibly also means controlling where the data physically resides. That's why each client's website is hosted in their own country, with a local, independent provider.

This strategic choice addresses two imperatives:

• Digital sovereignty: A local, independent infrastructure keeps your data and your users' data on national territory, protected by local and European laws, and subject to no foreign extraterritorial legislation.
• Aligned values and high performance: Local providers that manage their own data centres with a genuine eco-responsible approach deliver excellent computing power and resource allocation — your visitors benefit from ultra-fast response times thanks to geographic and technical proximity.

Cookieless: your analytics data doesn't disappear

The question always comes up: "So… you have no stats at all?" On the contrary.

I collect comprehensive server-side statistics — no cookie, no tracking JavaScript, no personal data collected. Visits, most-viewed pages, traffic sources, devices, performance, trends… everything is there. And this data is 100% reliable: it isn't truncated by consent refusals. With a classic Google Analytics setup, when a "Reject all" button is clearly displayed, around 60% of users refuse — representing a loss of 40 to 70% of analytics data.[2]

Purely server-side analytics deliver complete statistics without setting a single cookie, and are GDPR-compliant by default.

And every month, I produce a personalised report for my clients. A report designed for humans, not data analysts. Visually clear, business-oriented, with the indicators that truly matter.

A website can be lean AND fully equipped

This is the core message: performance, sobriety and legal compliance are not mutually exclusive. Removing third-party trackers simultaneously lightens the page, improves Core Web Vitals, respects user privacy and achieves GDPR compliance — all in one move.

The digital sector represents 3.7% of global GHG emissions[1], and every webpage generates an average of 0.36 g of CO₂[4]. An eco-designed site, free of superfluous third-party resources, structurally reduces this footprint — not symbolically.

Want to see an example of a monthly cookieless analytics report? Comment "Cookieless Stats Report" or book a call directly.