Deccan Herald

deccanherald.com

Scanned 15 Oct 2026Fresh927 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteDeccan Herald | Latest News Today: Breaking News and Top Headlines on Elections 2026, India, Karnataka, Bengaluru, Politics, World, Entertainment, Business and SportsDeccan Herald | Latest News Updates: Get Headlines from Elections 2026, India, World, Karnataka & Bengaluru. Latest English News, Breaking news, Today's News Updates, Politics, Sports, Education, Business, Entertainment & Opinions.

Deccan Herald (deccanherald.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1996. It is built with Express; 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: #5,079 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #3,452

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#5,079	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 5,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#3,452	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Express.

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Evidence · response header
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x-powered-by: Express
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Everything else it uses (10)

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

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Evidence · page source, line 90
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cf-ray: a4ad4067ff8c4a03-TPE
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Evidence · DNS record
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deccanherald.com NS ns-1486.awsdns-57.org.
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deccanherald.com MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
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Evidence · page source, line 74
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…s.async = true; s.src = "https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/cs/39632204/beacon.js"; el.parentNo…
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Evidence · page source, line 118
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….async = true; j.src = "https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=" + i + dl; f.parentNode.insertB…
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Evidence · page source, line 102
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<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-…
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<script async="async" src="https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js">
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Evidence · page source, line 489
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…ola":true,"taboola_script":"\u002F\u002Fcdn.taboola.com\u002Flibtrc\u002Fdeccanherald-deccanher…
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Evidence · page source, line 38
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@400;500;700&display=swap">
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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

4 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

Domain registered19 Nov 1996, 29 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 pageFound
About pageLinked from the home pageFound
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 detailsOrganization without name or addressNot found
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers4 analytics and advertising tools: Comscore, Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, TaboolaNoted

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 registered19 Nov 1996, 29 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: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsDeccan Herald | Latest News Today: Breaking News and Top Headlines on Elections 2026, India, Karnataka, Bengaluru, Politics, World, Entertainment, Business and SportsDeccan Herald | Latest News Updates: Get Headlines from Elections 2026, India, World, Karnataka & Bengaluru. Latest English News, Breaking news, Today's News Updates, Politics, Sports, Education, Business, Entertainment & Opinions.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data

"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q1181753: Deccan Herald, newspaper

Exhibit 3 · its own title or description

Deccan Herald | Latest News Today: Breaking News and Top Headlines on Elections 2026, India, Karnataka, Bengaluru, Politics, World, Entertainment, Business and

Exhibit 4 · page source, line 404

<a href="/news-shots">News Shots</a>

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Who is behind it

WikidataDeccan Herald

Wikidata: Part of The Printers Mysore; based in Bengaluru, India; founded by K.N. Guruswamy.

Its Facebook and X accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q1181753: Deccan Herald

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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

Deccan Herald: newspaper · newspaper · since 1948

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 GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended and 3 more to stay away.
AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User to stay away.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 15

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 28

User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 31

User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 35

User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 39

User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 50

User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /

Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 57

User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 21

User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /

Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 24

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 43

User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 46

User-agent: Perplexity-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: Deccan Herald
Language: English (en)
What it tells search engines: Organization, BreadcrumbList, NewsMediaOrganization, WebSite, SiteNavigationElement

Named in its structured data

News Media OrganizationDeccan HeraldBengaluru, IN

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

96 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 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 page26 / 30contact page linked · 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 29 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 1996.

19 Nov 1996Domain registeredRDAP
8 Nov 2017First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
15 Oct 2026This 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

927 checks on 15 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 deccanherald.com

What is deccanherald.com?

Deccan Herald describes itself: “Deccan Herald | Latest News Updates: Get Headlines from Elections 2026, India, World, Karnataka & Bengaluru. Latest English News, Breaking news, Today's News Updates, Politics, Sports, Education,…” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is deccanherald.com?

Its domain was registered on 19 Nov 1996, 29 years ago. See the evidence

What is deccanherald.com built with?

It is built with Express; we found 11 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is deccanherald.com?

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

Was deccanherald.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 deccanherald.com?

Wikidata names Deccan Herald. 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 15 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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