Majestic

Overview

Majestic is a dedicated SEO backlink intelligence service, providing metrics such as Trust Flow and Citation Flow that quantify the quality and volume of links pointing to any domain. Unlike analytics or advertising vendors, Majestic does not distribute scripts to third-party websites for execution in visitor browsers. Its data collection is performed server-side by the MajesticBot web crawler, which indexes the public web independently of any script deployment.

What This Script Does

Majestic does not embed client-side scripts on third-party websites. There is no majestic.js or equivalent file that runs in visitor browsers. The platform's data collection mechanism is entirely server-side: MajesticBot crawls publicly accessible URLs, records link relationships, and stores them in Majestic's index.

Some website operators add Majestic verification tokens to their sites to prove ownership within the Majestic dashboard — these tokens are passive HTML meta tags or TXT records, not executing scripts, and they do not collect visitor data.

If Majestic appears in a website's third-party request logs, it is most likely a false positive caused by a browser extension, a security scanner, or the Majestic toolbar/browser plugin installed by a user visiting the site. These are user-initiated tools, not scripts deployed by the site operator.

Consent & Compliance

GDPR and ePrivacy Directive: Because Majestic does not deploy client-side scripts or set cookies on third-party sites, the ePrivacy Directive's cookie consent requirements do not apply in the context of Majestic as a third-party vendor. Site operators using the Majestic SaaS dashboard are subject to Majestic's own privacy policy as data subjects.

CCPA/CPRA: Majestic does not receive personal information from site visitors through any client-side mechanism. No sale or sharing of visitor data occurs.

Consent category: analytics (as classified), though the classification applies to Majestic's role as a monitoring service rather than client-side analytics. No visitor-facing consent action is required for Majestic itself.

Should You Block This Without Consent?

Yes.

Despite Majestic having no client-side tracking presence on third-party sites, the analytics tag is used in its classification. If Majestic scripts do appear in a site's tag inventory — for example, via a Majestic browser plugin or erroneously added script — they should be blocked until consent is established, as the origin and data handling of unexpected analytics scripts cannot be assumed benign.