donga.com

Scanned 14 Oct 2026Fresh925 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news site동아일보대한민국을 대표하는 정론지 동아일보는 디지털 창인 동아닷컴과 함께 공정하고 정확한 뉴스로 독자 여러분과 더 나은 미래를 만들어 나가겠습니다.

donga.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 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.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #4,509 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #4,558

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#4,509	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	#4,558	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with jQuery, jQuery UI and Swiper and 1 more.

jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 42
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<script src="https://image.donga.com/donga/js.v.5.0/jquery-3.7.0.min.js?t=20261001">
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Evidence · page source, line 45
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<script src="https://image.donga.com/donga/js.v.5.0/jquery-ui.min.js?t=20261001">
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Evidence · page source, line 43
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<script src="https://image.donga.com/donga/js.v.5.0/swiper-bundle.min.js?t=20261001">
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Evidence · page source, line 44
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<script src="https://image.donga.com/donga/js.v.5.0/slick.min.js?t=20261001">
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Everything else it uses (5)

Around it: CDN, Email, Advertising, Business tools.

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Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4a8cacda99a8412-TPE
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Evidence · DNS record
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donga.com TXT MS=ms68197774
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Google Ad ManagerAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 70
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<script async="" src="https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js" crossorigin="anonymous">
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Prebid.jsAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 113
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<script src="https://d1cykymlllue3h.cloudfront.net/js/donga_article_prebid.js">
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Meta BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 13
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<meta name="facebook-domain-verification" content="nyedn3qpatz7zur9vbmms5epehnszw">
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Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

2 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

Domain registered26 Mar 1996, 30 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 detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Ad Manager, Prebid.jsNoted

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 registered26 Mar 1996, 30 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settingsNone in placeNot found
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 words동아일보대한민국을 대표하는 정론지 동아일보는 디지털 창인 동아닷컴과 함께 공정하고 정확한 뉴스로 독자 여러분과 더 나은 미래를 만들어 나가겠습니다.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

Show evidence (3)Hide evidence

Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q486086: The Dong-a Ilbo, newspaper

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 19

<link rel="alternate" href="https://rss.donga.com/total.xml">

Exhibit 3 · page source, line 142

<a href="https://www.donga.com/news/search?query=%EA%B3%A0%EC%96%91">고양</a>

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Who is behind it

copyright linedongA.com
WikidataThe Dong-a Ilbo

Wikidata: Based in Dong-a Media Center, South Korea; founded by Kim Seong-su.

Its Instagram and Threads accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 2179

© dongA.com All rights reserved. 무단 전재, 재배포 및 AI학습 이용 금지

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q486086: The Dong-a Ilbo

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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

The Dong-a Ilbo: Korean newspaper · newspaper · since 1920

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: doesn’t ask AI training crawlers to stay away.
AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name: Not given
Language: Korean (ko)
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

How we know

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Score breakdown

Site Score

76 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 protections11 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines2 / 5

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 30 years ago

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on HTTPS · no 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 1996.

26 Mar 1996Domain registeredRDAP
14 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 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

Questions about donga.com

What is donga.com?

donga.com describes itself: “대한민국을 대표하는 정론지 동아일보는 디지털 창인 동아닷컴과 함께 공정하고 정확한 뉴스로 독자 여러분과 더 나은 미래를 만들어 나가겠습니다.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is donga.com?

Its domain was registered on 26 Mar 1996, 30 years ago. See the evidence

What is donga.com built with?

It is built with jQuery; we found 9 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is donga.com?

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

Was donga.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 donga.com?

Its copyright line names dongA.com. 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 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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