AbeBooks

abebooks.com

Scanned Fresh928 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Online shopAbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & CollectiblesDiscover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.

AbeBooks (abebooks.com) looks like an online shop, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1995. It is built with Brightspot, Envoy and Amazon Web Services; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #3,577 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #2,231

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#3,577list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#2,231list of 8 Oct 2026

Built with Brightspot, Envoy and Amazon Web Services.

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    Evidence · response header
    x-powered-by: Brightspot
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  • EnvoyWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 272
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    Evidence · response header
    x-amz-rid: PPT95DYJPMB5WWP861ST
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Everything else it uses (11)

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

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

3 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered24 Dec 1995, 30 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: AbeBooksPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Facebook SDKNoted

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 registered24 Dec 1995, 30 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings4 of 6 in placeFound
  • 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: Online shop.

In its own wordsAbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & CollectiblesDiscover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · its own title or description
AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles · AbeBooks · Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions 
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 599
<a href="/checkout/basket">Basket</a>
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 599
<a href="/collections/">Browse Collections</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataAbeBooks
  • copyright lineAbeBooks Inc
  • WikidataAbeBooks

Confirmed by 3 independent sources: structured data, copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Amazon; based in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Its X and Instagram accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 163
"name": "AbeBooks"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 5507
© 1996 - 2026 AbeBooks Inc. All Rights Reserved. AbeBooks, the AbeBooks logo, AbeBooks.com, "Passion for books." and "Passion for books. Books for your passion." are registered trademarks with the Reg
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q318128: AbeBooks
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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

  • AbeBooks: online book seller · business · since 1995

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of this item. 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: doesn’t ask AI training crawlers to stay away.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
AbeBooks
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, Organization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationAbeBooks

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

88 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

88OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page18 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page18 / 30no contact page link · 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 30 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses 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

Registered in 1995; first archived in 1996.

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

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

  1. 1996: captured
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  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

928 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

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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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