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CNN (cnn.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1993. It is built with Varnish; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

The page was larger than our size limit, so we read only its first part.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #205 · Chrome UX Report: Top 1,000 · Majestic Million: #97

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#205list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 1,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#97list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Varnish.

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    via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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Everything else it uses (23)

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

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

3 of 4 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered22 Sept 1993, 33 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • 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 pageThe page was larger than we read, and its end (where footers link these) went unreadCouldn’t check
  • About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Refund or returns policyThe page was larger than we read, and its end (where footers link these) went unreadCouldn’t check
  • Contact detailsThe page was larger than we read, and its end (where footers link these) went unreadCouldn’t check
  • Company detailsName: CNNPartly
  • Payment providersThe page was larger than we read, and its end (where footers link these) went unreadCouldn’t check
  • Trackers3 analytics and advertising tools: Chartbeat, Google Ad Manager, Amazon AdsNoted

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 registered22 Sept 1993, 33 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings3 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: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsBreaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNNView the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q48340: CNN, cable news in the United States
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN · CNN · View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 1781
<a href="/newsletters">Newsletters</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataCNN
  • copyright lineCable News Network
  • WikidataCNN

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 606
"name": "CNN"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 13468
CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q48340: CNN
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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

  • CNN: American news channel · film production company, specialty channel, cable news in the United States · since 1980
  • CNN.com: news website of CNN · online newspaper · since 1995

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: asks AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai and 23 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot and 10 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 14
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 15
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 17
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 20
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 21
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 25
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0 · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 26
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 29
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 32
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 34
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 37
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 41
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 43
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 50
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 51
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 53
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 61
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 62
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 63
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 73
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 83
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 85
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 87
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 90
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 18
User-agent: amzn-searchbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 19
User-agent: amzn-user · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 28
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 30
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 31
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 33 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 34 · robots.txt, line 40
User-agent: Exabot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 35 · robots.txt, line 49
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 · Disallow: /
Exhibit 36 · robots.txt, line 56
User-agent: MistralAI-user · Disallow: /
Exhibit 37 · robots.txt, line 60
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 38 · robots.txt, line 66
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 39 · robots.txt, line 67
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 40 · robots.txt, line 88
User-agent: YandexAdditional · Disallow: /
Exhibit 41 · robots.txt, line 89
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
CNN
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, NewsMediaOrganization

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationCNN

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

98 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

98OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page14 / 14
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 engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page14 / 14contact page link: couldn’t check · email and phone: couldn’t check · privacy policy linked · terms linked · refund policy link: couldn’t check · about page linked
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 33 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K 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 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 1993; first archived in 2000.

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

In the web archive: captured in 27 of 27 years · see the first capture

  1. 2000: captured
  2. 2001: captured
  3. 2002: captured
  4. 2003: captured
  5. 2004: captured
  6. 2005: captured
  7. 2006: captured
  8. 2007: captured
  9. 2008: captured
  10. 2009: captured
  11. 2010: captured
  12. 2011: captured
  13. 2012: captured
  14. 2013: captured
  15. 2014: captured
  16. 2015: captured
  17. 2016: captured
  18. 2017: captured
  19. 2018: captured
  20. 2019: captured
  21. 2020: captured
  22. 2021: captured
  23. 2022: captured
  24. 2023: captured
  25. 2024: captured
  26. 2025: captured
  27. 2026: captured
Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
No changes since 10 Oct 2026.
ScannedScoreAI tracesPopularity
shown above98None foundTop 1K
98None foundTop 1K

Findings can change when a site changes or when we update our signatures; each scan keeps the version it used.

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

927 checks on 14 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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Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#205list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 1,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#97list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Web server
Varnish

And 23 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 pageCouldn’t check
  • About pageFound
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyCouldn’t check
  • Contact detailsCouldn’t check
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersCouldn’t check
  • TrackersNoted

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?

98OF 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 page14 / 14
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 engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 14 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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