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DerWesten.de

derwesten.de

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news sitederwesten.de - Nachrichten für den Westen - DerWesten.deAktuelle Nachrichten aus dem Ruhrgebiet, NRW, Deutschland und der Welt! Außerdem alle News über Promis, TV-Shows, Politik und Wirtschaft.
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withWordPress, WordPress VIP, WordPress.com16 technologies foundTrust signals5 of 7 foundDomain age unknownBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

derwesten.de looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 2007. It is built with WordPress, WordPress VIP and WordPress.com; 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: #13,252 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #7,240

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#13,252list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#7,240list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with WordPress, WordPress VIP and WordPress.com.

  • WordPressCMSShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 75
    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 7.0.7">
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  • WordPress VIPHostingShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-powered-by: WordPress VIP <https://wpvip.com>
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  • WordPress.comHostingShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-hacker: If you're reading this, you should visit https://join.a8c.com/viphacker and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
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Everything else it uses (13)

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

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

5 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 30Masked 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.
    "email": "d•••@derwesten.de"
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  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 30Masked 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.
    "email": "d•••@derwesten.de"
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  • Company detailsName: DerWesten.de, address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Parse.ly, 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 registeredThe registry publishes no registration date, only when the record last changed (28 Jan 2025)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
  • First seen online7 Nov 2007, 18 years agoNotedInternet Archive
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings5 of 6 in placeFound
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

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What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsderwesten.de - Nachrichten für den Westen - DerWesten.deAktuelle Nachrichten aus dem Ruhrgebiet, NRW, Deutschland und der Welt! Außerdem alle News über Promis, TV-Shows, Politik und Wirtschaft.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q26807818: Der Westen, online newspaper
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 46
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.derwesten.de/feed">
Exhibit 4 · its own title or description
derwesten.de - Nachrichten für den Westen - DerWesten.de · DerWesten.de · Aktuelle Nachrichten aus dem Ruhrgebiet, NRW, Deutschland und der Welt! Außerdem alle
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataDerWesten.de
  • copyright lineDerWesten.de
  • WikidataDer Westen

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and copyright line.

Wikidata: Owned by Funke Digital; based in Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 30
"name": "DerWesten.de"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 2016
© 2026 DerWesten.de
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q26807818: Der Westen
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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

  • Der Westen: German news website · online newspaper, news website · since 2007

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 AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai and 26 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, DuckAssistBot and 9 more to stay away.
Show evidence (43)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 19
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 20
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 23
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 26
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 28
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 34
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0 · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 36
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 37
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 40
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 41
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 46
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 47
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 48
User-agent: Cotoyogi · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 51
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 53
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 58
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 63
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 73
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 74
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 75
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 87
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 88
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 91
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 102
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 110
User-agent: TikTokSpider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 111
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 112
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 114
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 119
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 42
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 33 · robots.txt, line 43
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 34 · robots.txt, line 54
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 35 · robots.txt, line 62
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 36 · robots.txt, line 70
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 · Disallow: /
Exhibit 37 · robots.txt, line 80
User-agent: meta-webindexer · Disallow: /
Exhibit 38 · robots.txt, line 81
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 39 · robots.txt, line 86
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 40 · robots.txt, line 94
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 41 · robots.txt, line 95
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 42 · robots.txt, line 117
User-agent: YandexAdditional · Disallow: /
Exhibit 43 · robots.txt, line 118
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot · Disallow: /
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Site name
DerWesten.de
Language
German (de)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, Organization, NewsMediaOrganization, PostalAddress

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationDerWesten.de

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

92 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

92OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10

Scored on the parts we could check.

Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30contact page linked · email and phone given · privacy policy linked · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked
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 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

First archived in 2007.

  1. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  2. First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
  3. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 20 of 20 years · see the first capture

  1. 2007: captured
  2. 2008: captured
  3. 2009: captured
  4. 2010: captured
  5. 2011: captured
  6. 2012: captured
  7. 2013: captured
  8. 2014: captured
  9. 2015: captured
  10. 2016: captured
  11. 2017: captured
  12. 2018: captured
  13. 2019: captured
  14. 2020: captured
  15. 2021: captured
  16. 2022: captured
  17. 2023: captured
  18. 2024: captured
  19. 2025: captured
  20. 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 26 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#13,252list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#7,240list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CMS
WordPress
Hosting
WordPress VIP, WordPress.com

And 13 more around it (CDN, Performance, Email, Analytics), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageFound
  • About pageFound
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsNot found
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsFound
  • Company detailsFound
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredCouldn’t check
  • First seen onlineNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersFound
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateNoted
  • 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? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

92OF 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 page26 / 30
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

Questions about derwesten.de

What is derwesten.de?

derwesten.de describes itself: “Aktuelle Nachrichten aus dem Ruhrgebiet, NRW, Deutschland und der Welt! Außerdem alle News über Promis, TV-Shows, Politik und Wirtschaft.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is derwesten.de?

The web archive first saw it on 7 Nov 2007, 18 years ago. See the evidence

What is derwesten.de built with?

It is built with WordPress, WordPress VIP and WordPress.com; we found 16 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is derwesten.de?

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

Was derwesten.de 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 derwesten.de?

DerWesten.de, named by its structured data and its copyright line. 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 26 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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