cgtn.com

Scanned 16 Oct 2026Fresh928 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteCGTN | Breaking News, China News, World News and VideoGet the news as it breaks and go behind the day's top stories, from politics, business, culture and sports to nature, travel and technology. CGTN delivers a Chinese perspective on global news through innovative use of the latest media tools.

cgtn.com looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2002. It is built with Animate.css and jQuery; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

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

Tranco: #5,990 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #2,582

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#5,990	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	#2,582	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with jQuery, Swiper and Slick and 2 more.

jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 5534
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<script src="https://ui.cgtn.com/static/ng/resource/vendor/jquery.min.js">
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SwiperJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 5546
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<script src="https://ui.cgtn.com/static/ng/resource/vendor/swiper-6.1.2/swiper.min.js">
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SlickJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 5541
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<script src="https://ui.cgtn.com/static/ng/resource/vendor/slick/slick.min.js">
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lazysizesJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 5537
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<script src="https://ui.cgtn.com/static/ng/resource/vendor/lazysizes.min.js">
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Animate.cssCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 82
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ui.cgtn.com/static/ng/resource/vendor/animate.css-master/animate.css-master/animate.css">
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Everything else it uses (9)

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

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Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4b5d9bcc8baa28a-SLC
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Alibaba Cloud DNSDNSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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cgtn.com NS vip3.alidns.com.
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Evidence · DNS record
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cgtn.com TXT MS=ms74189957
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Amazon SESEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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cgtn.com TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mail.qq.com include:amazonses.com -all
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Google AnalyticsAnalyticsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 161
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<script src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-Q2N7DKTSVJ">
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Google Tag ManagerTag managerShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 212
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…'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f…
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Evidence · DNS record
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_dmarc.cgtn.com TXT v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:rua@dmarc.brevo.com
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Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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cgtn.com TXT google-site-verification=3txFgH3QvlG8pGag-J19b1Z8L9RJJtMWGLgXgEfYt3Y
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JW PlayerVideoShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 5539
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…//ui.cgtn.com/static/ng/resource/vendor/jwplayer-8.32.0/jwplayer.js">
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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

3 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

Domain registered15 Nov 2002, 23 years agoNoted
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Contact detailsPhone on the home pagePartly
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 5520Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
Disinformation report hotline: 01•-••••••66
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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 detailsPhone on the home pagePartly
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 5520Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
Disinformation report hotline: 01•-••••••66
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Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Google AnalyticsNoted

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 registered15 Nov 2002, 23 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings1 of 6 in placePartly
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 wordsCGTN | Breaking News, China News, World News and VideoGet the news as it breaks and go behind the day's top stories, from politics, business, culture and sports to nature, travel and technology. CGTN delivers a Chinese perspective on global news through innovative use of the latest media tools.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · its own title or description

CGTN | Breaking News, China News, World News and Video · Get the news as it breaks and go behind the day's top stories, from politics, business, culture and spo

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 261

<a href="https://www.cgtn.com/newspal"></a>

Exhibit 3 · visible text

…CGTN | Breaking News, China News, World News and Video Home…

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Who is behind it

copyright lineCGTN
WikidataCGTN

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by China Media Group and China Central Television; based in Beijing, People's Republic of China.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 5509

Copyright © 2026 CGTN.

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q4378607: CGTN

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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

CGTN: English-language channel of China Global Television Network · State-controlled media (PRC), Chinese state-controlled propaganda channel · since 1997
China Global Television Network: Chinese international state-media organization · television network, state media company · since 2016

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: 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: Not given
Language: English (en)
What it tells search engines: None

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.

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Score breakdown

Site Score

83 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

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 protections13 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 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 23 years ago

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K 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 engines7 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · doesn’t tell 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 2002; first archived in 2002.

15 Nov 2002Domain registeredRDAP
24 Nov 2002First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
22 Dec 2016First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
16 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 24 of 25 years · see the first capture

2002: captured
2003: captured
2004: captured
2005: captured
2006: captured
2007: captured
2008: captured
2009: captured
2010: captured
2011: captured
2012: captured
2013: captured
2014: captured
2015: no capture
2016: captured
2017: captured
2018: captured
2019: captured
2020: captured
2021: captured
2022: captured
2023: captured
2024: captured
2025: captured
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 16 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

Questions about cgtn.com

What is cgtn.com?

cgtn.com describes itself: “Get the news as it breaks and go behind the day's top stories, from politics, business, culture and sports to nature, travel and technology. CGTN delivers a Chinese perspective on global news through…” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is cgtn.com?

Its domain was registered on 15 Nov 2002, 23 years ago. See the evidence

What is cgtn.com built with?

It is built with Animate.css and jQuery; we found 14 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is cgtn.com?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Was cgtn.com made with AI?

We found no traces of an AI site builder. That doesn’t prove a person built it: AI coding assistants leave no traces. See the evidence

Who is behind cgtn.com?

CGTN, named by its copyright line and Wikidata. See the evidence

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 16 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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