ABC News

abcnews.com

Scanned 13 Oct 2026926 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and VideosYour trusted source for breaking news, analysis, exclusive interviews, headlines, and videos at ABCNews.com

ABC News (abcnews.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1995. It is built with React and Bootstrap; 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.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #2,500 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #733

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#2,500	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 10,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#733	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with React and Bootstrap.

ReactFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 70
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52 attributes starting with data-react-helmet
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BootstrapCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 22
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<script src="https://dcf.espn.com/TWDC-DTCI/prod/Bootstrap.js">
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Everything else it uses (9)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, SEO and more.

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a49bb5990f392d64-KIX
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Amazon CloudFrontCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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x-amz-cf-id: C-MW8eFNYaVra8ybDDfJ4fggeU3x8rb6Up0O8JMguVajLE64LJBvRw==
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Amazon Route 53DNSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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abcnews.com NS ns-1511.awsdns-60.org.
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Microsoft 365EmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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abcnews.com MX 5 abcnews-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
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Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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abcnews.com TXT google-site-verification=Kprh58L9ca0ojob4g3VUz9CKsSCmVmCoeHJTuK4cE2g
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Datadog RUMMonitoringShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 30
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…)(window,document,'script','https://www.datadoghq-browser-agent.com/us1/v5/datadog-rum.js','DD_RUM');…
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New RelicMonitoringShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 79
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…t",errorBeacon:"bam.nr-data.net",agent:"js-agent.newrelic.com/nr-spa-1216.min.js"},R=g&&y&&y[v]&&!/Cr…
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Meta BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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abcnews.com TXT facebook-domain-verification=7ryehj4wi9sqmbv1dy8dgze04fe17b
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AtlassianBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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abcnews.com TXT atlassian-domain-verification=5lqJwtfJPMHqC/aGvT/7s2BR53IHCs9P6vFjCQYA5nkQ4mvoHKTqNTW7gucscGW7
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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.

Domain registered20 Apr 1995, 31 years agoNoted
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 page, and the page opensFound
About pageLinked from the home pageFound
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 detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
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 registered20 Apr 1995, 31 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settingsNone in placeNot found
Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS 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 - Breaking News, Latest News and VideosYour trusted source for breaking news, analysis, exclusive interviews, headlines, and videos at ABCNews.com

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence

Exhibit 1 · its own title or description

ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos · ABC News · Your trusted source for breaking news, analysis, exclusive interviews, headlines, and videos at AB

Exhibit 2 · visible text

…ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos ABC News Live Video Local Sh…

Exhibit 3 · visible text

…ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos ABC News Live V…

Exhibit 4 · visible text

…and exiting NYC manholes: What to know Top Stories Archbishop of US military speaks on fir…

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Who is behind it

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 84

© 2026 ABC News

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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

Find them on

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

AI use

AI training: asks GPTBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, anthropic-ai and 4 more to stay away.
AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User to stay away.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 12

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 15

User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 18

User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 24

User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 27

User-agent: Omgilibot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 30

User-agent: Omgili · Disallow: /

Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 33

User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 36

User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /

Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 21

User-agent: ChatGPT-User · 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)
What it tells search engines: WebSite, WebPage

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

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

How we test it · Every builder we know · How to tell if a site was built with AI

Score breakdown

Site Score

92 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10

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

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 31 years ago

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K in a popularity list

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on HTTPS · no 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

Registered in 1995; first archived in 1997.

20 Apr 1995Domain registeredRDAP
30 May 1997First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
13 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 30 of 30 years · see the first capture

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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 13 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

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 13 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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