Digital Spy UK

digitalspy.com

Scanned 25 Oct 2026Fresh925 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteDigital Spy - TV, Movies and Entertainment NewsEntertainment news about the biggest TV shows, films, soaps, celebrities, games and tech, updated around the clock.

Digital Spy UK (digitalspy.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1999. It is built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS and Emotion; 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: #10,177 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #3,950

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#10,177	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 10,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#3,950	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS and Emotion.

Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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<script src="/_assets/fre/scopes/hdm/_next/static/chunks/polyfills-42372ed130431b0a.js">
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Tailwind CSSCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 3
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/*! tailwindcss v4.2.2 | MIT License | https://tailwindcs…
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EmotionCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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5 attributes starting with data-emotion
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Everything else it uses (10)

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

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4fe9dae2d60ca1a-OTP
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FastlyCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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www.digitalspy.com CNAME hearst-uk.map.fastly.net.
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Amazon Route 53DNSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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digitalspy.com NS ns-1095.awsdns-08.org.
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Google WorkspaceEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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digitalspy.com MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
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Microsoft 365EmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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digitalspy.com TXT MS=ms36129279
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Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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<meta name="google-site-verification" content="yOsKGKJADzRcnlk-FrptJIoYYaNs5pgoJx2J0ie4bWE">
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OneTrustCookie consentShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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…cript id="onetrust-script" src="https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/otSDKStub.js" async=""…
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VimeoVideoShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 5
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…nts","RUNTIME_LIVE_STREAM_URL":"https://player.vimeo.com/video/","RUNTIME_PROFILE_NAME_MAX_LENGT…
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Meta BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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digitalspy.com TXT facebook-domain-verification=jcigw8cejqn910izyghmuudq3vipqf
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GlobalSign (certificates)Business toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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digitalspy.com TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=aQIRcZ4Sa1SmXZlbSPt5QrVI6ozleqa0sPLU-bElLs
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Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

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 registered20 Dec 1999, 26 years agoNoted
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
TermsLinked from the home pageFound
Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Company detailsName: Digital Spy, address givenFound
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

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 registered20 Dec 1999, 26 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings5 of 6 in placeFound
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 wordsDigital Spy - TV, Movies and Entertainment NewsEntertainment news about the biggest TV shows, films, soaps, celebrities, games and tech, updated around the clock.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence

Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1

<link rel="alternate" href="/rss/default.xml">

Exhibit 2 · its own title or description

Digital Spy - TV, Movies and Entertainment News · Digital Spy UK · Entertainment news about the biggest TV shows, films, soaps, celebrities, games and tech, upd

Exhibit 3 · page source, line 5

<a href="/news/">News</a>

Exhibit 4 · visible text

…V, Movies and Entertainment News Search Latest News TV Movies Soaps Streaming Guide Travel…

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Who is behind it

structured dataDigital Spy
WikidataDigital Spy

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Hearst Communications; based in United Kingdom.

Its X, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1

"name": "Digital Spy"

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q1111380: Digital Spy

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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

Digital Spy: British news website · video game news website, website · since 1999

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 to stay away.
AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot to stay away.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 7

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 6

User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 8

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · 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: Digital Spy UK
Language: English (en-GB)
What it tells search engines: ItemList, CollectionPage, Organization, WebPage

Named in its structured data

OrganizationDigital SpyLondon, UK

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

84 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page14 / 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 page14 / 30no contact page link · 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 26 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 1999.

20 Dec 1999Domain registeredRDAP
25 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

925 checks on 25 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 digitalspy.com

What is digitalspy.com?

Digital Spy UK describes itself: “Entertainment news about the biggest TV shows, films, soaps, celebrities, games and tech, updated around the clock.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is digitalspy.com?

Its domain was registered on 20 Dec 1999, 26 years ago. See the evidence

What is digitalspy.com built with?

It is built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS and Emotion; we found 13 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is digitalspy.com?

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

Was digitalspy.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 digitalspy.com?

Digital Spy, named by its structured data 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 25 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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