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channel4.com looks like a video or music streaming service, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1995. It is built with React; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

The page shows little text before its JavaScript runs, so we also read its own scripts (/homepage/static/2.1.47/js/homepage.js, /zShOFYeRLFeN2AmV_Ta-ze1n/tYDiQcJVXm0Gc4/Awo7OlkB/EBc/TbgZfW0Y) for traces.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #4,554 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #1,737

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#4,554list of 27 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Sep 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#1,737list of 28 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with React.

  • ReactFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · script /homepage/static/2.1.47/js/homepage.js
    …1,e.toLowerCase(),null,!0)}));var ie=i.__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED;function oe(e,n,r,i){var o=te.hasOwnProp…
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Everything else it uses (14)

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

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

We couldn’t read the page; outside records are below.

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

  • Domain registered17 Nov 1995, 30 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
  • About pageThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
  • Privacy policyThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
  • TermsThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
  • Refund or returns policyThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
  • Contact detailsThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
  • Company detailsThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
  • Payment providersThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
  • TrackersThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check

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 registered17 Nov 1995, 30 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings2 of 6 in placePartly
  • 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: Video or music streaming.

In its own wordsChannel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TVWatch your favourite shows online, from Channel 4, E4 and Walter Presents

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · its own title or description
Channel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TV · Watch your favourite shows online, from Channel 4, E4 and Walter Presents
Exhibit 2 · visible text
…Channel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TV Channel 4…
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Who is behind it

  • WikidataChannel 4

Wikidata: Owned by Channel Four Television Corporation; based in London, United Kingdom.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q501070: Channel 4
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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

  • Channel 4: British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation · television channel, broadcaster, television station · since 1982
  • Channel 4: video on demand service from Channel Four Television Corporation · website, software, video on demand · since 2006

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.

AI use

  • AI training: asks CCBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai and 7 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Google-CloudVertexBot, OAI-SearchBot and 5 more to stay away.
Show evidence (20)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 19
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 23
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 31
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 47
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 51
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 55
User-Agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 63
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 75
User-agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 59
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 67
User-Agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 71
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 79
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 83
User-agent: YandexAdditional · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 87
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 91
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 95
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 99
User-agent: Amzn-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
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

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Score breakdown

Site Score

96 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

96OF 100
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 engines7 / 10

Scored on the parts we could check.

Why each part scored what it did
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 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 1995.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached; we’ll ask it again. Why can this be empty?

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

925 checks on 28 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

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#4,554list of 27 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Sep 2026
  • Majestic Million#1,737list of 28 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Framework
React

And 14 more around it (CDN, Security, DNS, Email), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageCouldn’t check
  • About pageCouldn’t check
  • Privacy policyCouldn’t check
  • TermsCouldn’t check
  • Refund or returns policyCouldn’t check
  • Contact detailsCouldn’t check
  • Company detailsCouldn’t check
  • Payment providersCouldn’t check
  • TrackersCouldn’t check

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactNot found

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?

96OF 100

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

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 engines7 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about channel4.com

What is channel4.com?

channel4.com describes itself: “Watch your favourite shows online, from Channel 4, E4 and Walter Presents” It looks like a video or music streaming service. See the evidence

How old is channel4.com?

Its domain was registered on 17 Nov 1995, 30 years ago. See the evidence

What is channel4.com built with?

It is built with React; we found 15 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is channel4.com?

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

Was channel4.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 channel4.com?

Wikidata names Channel 4. See the evidence

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 28 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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