Fars

farsnews.ir

Scanned 16 Oct 2026Fresh926 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteپیشخوان | اخبار ایران و جهان | خبرگزاری فارسآخرین و مهمترین اخبار ایران و جهان را در خبرگزاری فارس بخوانید. خبرگزاری فارس، پربازدیدترین خبرگزاری کشور و معتبرترین مرجع خبری رسانه‌های ایران و جهان.

Fars (farsnews.ir) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 2004. It uses Cloudflare and Google Search Console; 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: #6,289 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #16,446

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#6,289	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	#16,446	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

No framework or CMS shows in the page; it uses CDN, SEO.

Everything else it uses (2)

Around it: CDN, SEO.

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4b9f3d2fcca14fe-SLC
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Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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farsnews.ir TXT google-site-verification=e1aUAOGiYvB9ZZ4DEfcBPwkJmsthSpfugZCKE7KwHbk
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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

1 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 detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
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 detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
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 registeredThe registry publishes no registration dateCouldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.nic.ir)
First seen online14 Mar 2004, 22 years agoNotedInternet Archive
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings4 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 wordsپیشخوان | اخبار ایران و جهان | خبرگزاری فارسآخرین و مهمترین اخبار ایران و جهان را در خبرگزاری فارس بخوانید. خبرگزاری فارس، پربازدیدترین خبرگزاری کشور و معتبرترین مرجع خبری رسانه‌های ایران و جهان.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

Show evidence (2)Hide evidence

Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q1397143: Fars News Agency, news agency

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 26

<a href="/News_Reflec/showcase">انعکاس</a>

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Who is behind it

WikidataFars News Agency

Wikidata: Based in Tehran, Iran.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q1397143: Fars News Agency

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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

Fars News Agency: Iranian news agency · website, news agency · since 2003

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.

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: Fars
Language: Persian (fa)
What it tells search engines: WebSite

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

71 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page10 / 30

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 5

Scored on the parts we could check.

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page10 / 30no contact page link · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link

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 engines5 / 5site name in another script than its address: couldn’t check · 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 2004.

14 Mar 2004First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
15 Mar 2017First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
16 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 23 of 23 years · see the first capture

2004: captured
2005: captured
2006: captured
2007: captured
2008: captured
2009: captured
2010: captured
2011: captured
2012: captured
2013: captured
2014: captured
2015: captured
2016: captured
2017: captured
2018: captured
2019: captured
2020: captured
2021: captured
2022: captured
2023: captured
2024: captured
2025: captured
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 16 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 farsnews.ir

What is farsnews.ir?

Fars describes itself: “آخرین و مهمترین اخبار ایران و جهان را در خبرگزاری فارس بخوانید. خبرگزاری فارس، پربازدیدترین خبرگزاری کشور و معتبرترین مرجع خبری رسانه‌های ایران و جهان.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is farsnews.ir?

The web archive first saw it on 14 Mar 2004, 22 years ago. See the evidence

What is farsnews.ir built with?

It uses Cloudflare and Google Search Console; we found 2 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is farsnews.ir?

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

Was farsnews.ir 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 farsnews.ir?

Wikidata names Fars News Agency. 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 16 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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