ELLE

elle.com

Scanned 13 Oct 2026Fresh926 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteFashion Magazine - Beauty Tips, Fashion Trends, & Celebrity News - ELLEWatch runway shows from the hottest fashion designers, scope out the best-dressed celebrities on the red carpet, discover the latest and greatest beauty products to maintain a healthy glow, and get a sneak peek at our celebrity cover shoots.

ELLE (elle.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 Next.js 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: #3,154 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #1,328

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#3,154	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	#1,328	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Next.js 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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EmotionCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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6 attributes starting with data-emotion
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Everything else it uses (12)

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

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a49ecec73eccd429-KIX
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FastlyCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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www.elle.com CNAME hearst-hdm.map.fastly.net.
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reCAPTCHASecurityShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 3
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<div class="g-recaptcha css-ecgqlf e16stj2s7">
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Amazon Route 53DNSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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elle.com NS ns-1481.awsdns-57.org.
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Microsoft 365EmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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elle.com MX 10 elle-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
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ValimailEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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_dmarc.elle.com TXT v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:dmarc_agg@vali.email
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Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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<meta name="google-site-verification" content="W6SOBCzCmb2sA5l3z9YK1yO7I7bPYArVQCP09_e2zck">
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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 89
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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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elle.com TXT facebook-domain-verification=llbl630wpxs0fi0wbbdfzrym7dof5s
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GlobalSign (certificates)Business toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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elle.com TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=2wRqY6IrIINLY7B8Qcp-qur9HsiRTO04g4gwsMmFy3
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TollBitBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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elle.com TXT tollbit-domain-verification=96556a4f1bb50bbb48d1834faf8cf7bb924545bfa2c57321ae3346bed1cba2b1
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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.

Domain registered4 Apr 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 pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
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: ELLE, 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 registered4 Apr 1996, 30 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings5 of 6 in placeFound
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 wordsFashion Magazine - Beauty Tips, Fashion Trends, & Celebrity News - ELLEWatch runway shows from the hottest fashion designers, scope out the best-dressed celebrities on the red carpet, discover the latest and greatest beauty products to maintain a healthy glow, and get a sneak peek at our celebrity cover shoots.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · its own title or description

Fashion Magazine - Beauty Tips, Fashion Trends, & Celebrity News - ELLE · ELLE · Watch runway shows from the hottest fashion designers, scope out the best-dress

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 89

<a href="https://www.hearst.com/news">Press Room</a>

Exhibit 3 · visible text

…026 Fashion Campaigns 28 minutes ago 13 min read Erin French on Building The Lost Kitche…

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Who is behind it

structured dataELLE
copyright lineHearst Magazine Media, Inc
WikidataElle US

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Lagardère News; based in United States.

Its X, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and 2 more accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1

"name": "ELLE"

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 89

©2026 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Exhibit 3 · Wikidata

Q119845915: Elle US

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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

Elle US: localized version of Elle magazine in the US · fashion magazine, website · since 1985

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: names GPTBot with rules for some pages.
AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 7

User-agent: GPTBot

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

Site name: ELLE
Language: English (en-US)
What it tells search engines: ItemList, CollectionPage, Organization, WebPage

Named in its structured data

OrganizationELLENew York, US

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

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 30 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; first archived in 1996.

4 Apr 1996Domain registeredRDAP
3 Nov 1996First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
13 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 31 of 31 years · see the first capture

1996: captured
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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

926 checks on 13 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

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 13 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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