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What "Filtering Detected" Means on Your Scan Results

Every scan's results page has a "Filtering Detected" line. When a scan finishes, it's a quick summary that shows one of three status values.

What it saysWhat it means
Active Every domain tested, across every category, was blocked.
Partially active. Not all categories blocked. At least one category was a mixed result — some of its tested domains were blocked, some weren't.
Not filtered At least one category failed, and none of the failing categories were mixed — each one that failed, failed completely.

This is a summary line, not a separate scoring system — it's computed from the same pass/fail data as the per-category and overall results shown elsewhere on the page, just condensed into one sentence you can read at a glance. For what the per-category "Blocked," "Partially blocked," and "Not blocked" labels mean, and how they combine into the scan's overall Pass or Fail, see how the scanner works. For what gets tested under each compliance standard, see what each compliance standard actually checks.

If it says "Please refresh the page to try again"

That's not a fourth filtering status — it means the scan didn't finish reporting correctly. Refresh and re-run it rather than reading anything into that message.

Not sure what your result means for your specific situation? Run a free scan and check both the summary line and the per-category breakdown together — the summary tells you where you stand, the breakdown tells you what to fix.

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