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ABC News

abc.net.au

Scanned 926 checks

92OF 100
How it adds up →
In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting CorporationFollow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withNext.js17 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain age unknownBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

ABC News (abc.net.au) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 1996. It is built with Next.js; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #1,278 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #409

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#1,278list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#409list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Next.js.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="/news-web/_next/static/chunks/polyfills-42372ed130431b0a.js?dpl=1de7c3b3">
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Everything else it uses (16)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager and more.

Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

4 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageLinked from the home pageFound
  • About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: ABC NewsPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
  • Domain registeredThe registry publishes no registration date, only when the record last changed (25 Sept 2026)Couldn’t checkdomain registry
  • First seen online17 Oct 1996, 29 years agoNotedInternet Archive
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings4 of 6 in placeFound
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

A second opinion on its security setup: Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory grades the site when you open it. Ten checks before you buy · A signal looks wrong? Report it

What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting CorporationFollow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · its own title or description
ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation · Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events,
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 1
<a href="/news/justin">Just In</a>
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 5
<a href="https://iview.abc.net.au/category/watch-live">Live TV</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataABC News
  • copyright lineABC
  • WikidataAustralian Broadcasting Corporation

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and copyright line.

Wikidata: Owned by Australian Government; based in Sydney, Australia; founded by Lyons Government.

Its Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1
"name": "ABC News"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 5
© 2026 ABC
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q781365: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation: state-funded independent national public broadcaster of Australia · organization, information, statutory corporation · since 1932
  • ABC Online: online services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation · website, nonprofit organization · since 1995

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of these items. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

Find them on

The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: asks ICC-Crawler, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Timpibot and 12 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User and PerplexityBot to stay away.
Show evidence (18)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 63
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 84
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 87
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 90
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 93
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 96
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 99
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 102
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 105
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 108
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 111
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 114
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 117
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 123
User-agent: Omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 126
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 129
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 81
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 120
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
ABC News
Language
English (en-AU)
What it tells search engines
WebSite, CollectionPage, ItemList, NewsMediaOrganization

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationABC News

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

How we know

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Score breakdown

Site Score

92 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

92OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10

Scored on the parts we could check.

Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on HTTPS · protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · tells search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

First archived in 1996.

  1. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 31 of 31 years · see the first capture

  1. 1996: captured
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  25. 2020: captured
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  27. 2022: captured
  28. 2023: captured
  29. 2024: captured
  30. 2025: captured
  31. 2026: captured
Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

  • Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
  • With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
  • Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.
This scan, in numbers

926 checks on 11 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

Quick look

Built with AI?

None foundWe found no AI builder traces.

“None found” never means “made by a person”: coding assistants leave no traces.

All the evidence →

Related

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How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#1,278list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#409list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Framework
Next.js

And 16 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageFound
  • About pageFound
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredCouldn’t check
  • First seen onlineNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersFound
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactFound

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

Every signal with its source →

Related

How has it changed? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

92OF 100

Strong trust signals. An open formula (v1.1): every point comes from a finding above. AI traces carry no weight.

TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 11 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

What this scan can’t tell you
  • Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
  • How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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