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Learn to read a website

How to tell if a site was built with AI, how popular it is, what it runs on and which trust signals matter, explained with real evidence from our scans.

9 articles6 topicsUpdated 4 Oct 2026

AI-built sites6 min readHow to tell if a website was built with AIAI site builders leave traces in the address, the page source and the headers. Here's where to look, what each trace proves, and why "no traces" never means "made by a person".2 Oct 2026Read

AI-built sites3 min readHow to spot a website made with Bolt.newBolt.new leaves fewer traces than most AI builders: its hosting address, a DNS record, its badge, and a starter that only counts as a whole. Here is each one, and how often we find them.4 Oct 2026Read AI-built sites2 min readHow to spot a website made with v0v0, Vercel’s AI builder, signs most of what it makes: a generator tag, a default description and title, its preview address and the name its deploy gives a project. Here is each trace.4 Oct 2026Read Trust signals5 min readCan I trust this website? 10 checks before you buyNo tool can promise a shop is honest. But ten quick checks, from domain age to payment options, tell you a lot before you hand over your card details.2 Oct 2026Read Traffic4 min readHow much traffic does a website get? What you can know, and what you can'tOnly a site's owner knows its real visits. Here's what public popularity lists and commercial estimates actually measure, and how to read them without fooling yourself.2 Oct 2026Read Domains and history4 min readHow old is this website? Two dates that tell youA domain's registration date and its first capture in the web archive answer different questions. Read together, they also reveal when an address was registered again.2 Oct 2026Read AI-built sites4 min readHow to spot a website made with LovableLovable leaves more traces than most AI builders: its hosting, DNS records, scripts, meta tags, default icon and uploads. Here is each one we check, and the ones another builder copies.2 Oct 2026Read Our research6 min readWe tested our AI website detector on 2,395 sites. Here's what we foundPrecision, recall and every miss, builder by builder; a held-out test of sites we never tuned for; and sweeps of random sites. How we measure the AI Website Detector, in the open.2 Oct 2026Read Tech stacks3 min readWhat is this website built with? How to find any site's tech stackFrameworks, site builders, shops, hosting and payments all leave fingerprints in a page and its headers. Here's how to read them yourself, and where the method stops.2 Oct 2026Read