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GB News (gbnews.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2003. It is built with Envoy, Varnish and PayPal; 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: #13,931 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #9,676

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#13,931list 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#9,676list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Envoy, Varnish and PayPal.

  • EnvoyWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 30
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  • VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 talaria@1.43.1 cluster-gbnews, 1.1 ingress@dev, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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  • PayPalPaymentsShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 57
    <script src="https://www.paypal.com/sdk/js?client-id=BAAdepeKUnKA_kojmzaVSwk_bKXQf5h4TmrhA96OUOEZvWXaRj-xzo5rfANKfvbSDtq8kNTSqa-M5VFW00">
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Everything else it uses (15)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager and more.

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

5 of 8 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered26 Jan 2003, 23 years agoNoted
  • 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
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • 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
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: GB NewsPartly
  • Payment providersPayPalFound
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: 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 registered26 Jan 2003, 23 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • 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 wordsHome | GB NewsHome of the latest and breaking news, opinion and analysis | GB News

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 29
<link rel="alternate" href="/feeds/feed.rss">
Exhibit 2 · its own title or description
Home | GB News · GB News · Home of the latest and breaking news, opinion and analysis | GB News
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 1214
<a href="/news">News</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataGB News
  • copyright lineGBNEWS
  • WikidataGB News

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by All Perspectives Ltd and Paul Marshall; based in London, United Kingdom.

Its Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube and 1 more accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1
"name": "GB News"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 1377
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. © 2026 GBNEWS.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q100300992: GB News
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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

  • GB News: British television news channel · specialty channel, television station · since 2021

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.

Its summary for AI assistantsGB News: navigation index for LLMs - 611 sections, each with a markdown version. Complete content: https://www.gbnews.com/llms-full.txtRead it in full

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
GB News
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
Organization, WebSite

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationGB News

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 page22 / 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 page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · takes payments without a refund policy link · about page linked
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 23 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 2003; first archived in 1999.

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

In the web archive: captured in 25 of 28 years · see the first capture

  1. 1999: captured
  2. 2000: captured
  3. 2001: captured
  4. 2002: captured
  5. 2003: captured
  6. 2004: captured
  7. 2005: no capture
  8. 2006: no capture
  9. 2007: captured
  10. 2008: captured
  11. 2009: no capture
  12. 2010: captured
  13. 2011: captured
  14. 2012: captured
  15. 2013: captured
  16. 2014: captured
  17. 2015: captured
  18. 2016: captured
  19. 2017: captured
  20. 2018: captured
  21. 2019: captured
  22. 2020: captured
  23. 2021: captured
  24. 2022: captured
  25. 2023: captured
  26. 2024: captured
  27. 2025: captured
  28. 2026: captured

The web archive saw this address on 27 Nov 1999, before its current registration on 26 Jan 2003. It was probably registered again, possibly by a new owner.

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

929 checks on 27 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.

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Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#13,931list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#9,676list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Web server
Envoy, Varnish
Payments
PayPal

And 15 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager), 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
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersFound
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • 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? →
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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 page22 / 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 →

Related

Questions about gbnews.com

What is gbnews.com?

GB News describes itself: “Home of the latest and breaking news, opinion and analysis | GB News” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is gbnews.com?

Its domain was registered on 26 Jan 2003, 23 years ago. See the evidence

What is gbnews.com built with?

It is built with Envoy, Varnish and PayPal; we found 18 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is gbnews.com?

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

Was gbnews.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 gbnews.com?

GB News, 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 27 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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