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中日新聞Web

chunichi.co.jp

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86OF 100
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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news site東海・中部地方のニュースなら「中日新聞Web」中日新聞の総合ニュースサイト。東海地方・中部地方のニュースと生活情報を中心に、様々な地域情報を提供します。
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withjQuery13 technologies foundTrust signals3 of 7 foundDomain registered 32 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

中日新聞Web (chunichi.co.jp) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1994. It is built with 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.

Tranco: #6,668 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #9,650

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#6,668list 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#9,650list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with jQuery, Slick and Modernizr.

  • jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 3544
    <script src="https://static.chunichi.co.jp/chunichi/js/lib/jquery.min.js">
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  • SlickJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 3550
    <script src="https://static.chunichi.co.jp/chunichi/js/lib/slick.min.js">
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  • ModernizrJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 214
    <script src="https://static.chunichi.co.jp/chunichi/js/lib/modernizr-custom.js">
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Everything else it uses (10)

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

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 registered2 Sept 1994, 32 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 pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Chartbeat, Google Ad ManagerNoted

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 registered2 Sept 1994, 32 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.jprs.jp)
  • 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 words東海・中部地方のニュースなら「中日新聞Web」中日新聞の総合ニュースサイト。東海地方・中部地方のニュースと生活情報を中心に、様々な地域情報を提供します。

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q904678: Chunichi Shimbun, daily newspaper
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 365
<a href="https://www.chunichi.co.jp/news/sports/asiangames_aichi?ref=oshirase">アジア大会・アジアパラ大会特集</a>
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Who is behind it

  • copyright lineThe Chunichi Shimbun
  • WikidataChunichi Shimbun

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in Nagoya, Japan.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 3533
© The Chunichi Shimbun, All Rights Reserved.
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q904678: Chunichi Shimbun
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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

  • Chunichi Shimbun: Japanese daily "broadsheet" newspaper published in mostly Aichi Prefecture and neighboring regions by Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd. · block newspaper, daily newspaper, local newspaper · since 1886

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: asks Google-Extended, GPTBot, AI2Bot, Amazonbot and 21 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, Google-CloudVertexBot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot and 7 more to stay away.
Show evidence (36)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 12
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 13
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 24
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 30
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 45
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 48
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 51
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 54
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 66
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 69
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 75
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 81
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 93
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 96
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 102
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 117
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 138
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 141
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 144
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 171
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 180
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 183
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 201
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 10
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 11
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 14
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 57
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 60
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 78
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 120
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 33 · robots.txt, line 147
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 34 · robots.txt, line 153
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 35 · robots.txt, line 195
User-agent: YandexAdditional · Disallow: /
Exhibit 36 · robots.txt, line 198
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot · 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
中日新聞Web
Language
Japanese (ja)
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

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Score breakdown

Site Score

86 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

86OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 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 engines2 / 5
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 32 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 engines2 / 5site name in another script than its address: couldn’t check · 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 1994; first archived in 1996.

  1. Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.jprs.jp)
  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
  2. 1997: captured
  3. 1998: captured
  4. 1999: captured
  5. 2000: captured
  6. 2001: captured
  7. 2002: captured
  8. 2003: captured
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  10. 2005: captured
  11. 2006: captured
  12. 2007: captured
  13. 2008: captured
  14. 2009: captured
  15. 2010: captured
  16. 2011: captured
  17. 2012: captured
  18. 2013: captured
  19. 2014: captured
  20. 2015: captured
  21. 2016: captured
  22. 2017: captured
  23. 2018: captured
  24. 2019: captured
  25. 2020: captured
  26. 2021: captured
  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

928 checks on 17 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.

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How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#6,668list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#9,650list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

JavaScript library
jQuery, Slick, Modernizr

And 10 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

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

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • 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 →

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How has it changed? →
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How does it add up?

86OF 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 page22 / 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 engines2 / 5
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about chunichi.co.jp

What is chunichi.co.jp?

中日新聞Web describes itself: “中日新聞の総合ニュースサイト。東海地方・中部地方のニュースと生活情報を中心に、様々な地域情報を提供します。” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is chunichi.co.jp?

Its domain was registered on 2 Sept 1994, 32 years ago. See the evidence

What is chunichi.co.jp built with?

It is built with jQuery; we found 13 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is chunichi.co.jp?

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

Was chunichi.co.jp 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 chunichi.co.jp?

The Chunichi Shimbun, 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 17 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

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  • 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.
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