GIGA

giga.de

Scanned 16 Oct 2026Fresh928 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteGIGA | News und Tipps zu Android, Apple, Games, Entertainment, Tech und HaushaltBei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund um Technik, Games und Entertainment.

GIGA (giga.de) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 1999. It uses Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront and Google Workspace; 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: #5,979 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #8,214

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#5,979	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	#8,214	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

No framework or CMS shows in the page; it uses CDN, Email, Marketing, SEO and more.

Everything else it uses (7)

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

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4b5d7764a0ca28a-SLC
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Amazon CloudFrontCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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x-amz-cf-id: 387ElWuN7NUnRXgx3buBRYbgUpGlg4UBt9HHVuEwfqtsz63lbVbLJw==
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Google WorkspaceEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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giga.de MX 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
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MailchimpMarketingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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giga.de TXT v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:spf.flowmailer.net -all
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Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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giga.de TXT google-site-verification=jY1KSiS0cIRFFXE-bZc54ZmpLcgw6QY0BallcAaBXcA
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Meta BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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giga.de TXT facebook-domain-verification=nvsh6g0ent566e2fl109aztj3zhbve
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MiroBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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giga.de TXT miro-verification=f6755cea0e7745dfacefc76d7ddebc897e3f8568
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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.

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 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
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 detailsName: GIGAPartly
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 date, only when the record last changed (14 Sept 2026)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
First seen online17 Jan 1999, 27 years agoNotedInternet Archive
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 wordsGIGA | News und Tipps zu Android, Apple, Games, Entertainment, Tech und HaushaltBei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund um Technik, Games und Entertainment.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data

"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"

Exhibit 2 · its own title or description

GIGA | News und Tipps zu Android, Apple, Games, Entertainment, Tech und Haushalt · GIGA · Bei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund u

Exhibit 3 · page source, line 437

<a href="//www.giga.de/news/">News</a>

Exhibit 4 · page source, line 652

<a href="//www.giga.de/author/christopher-bahner/"></a>

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Who is behind it

structured dataGIGA
copyright lineGIGA
WikidataGIGA

Confirmed by 3 independent sources: structured data, copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in Germany.

Its Facebook and TikTok accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 283

"name": "GIGA"

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 1485

© 1998–2026 GIGA

Exhibit 3 · Wikidata

Q1485594: GIGA

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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

GIGA: former German television station and today online magazine · website · since 1998

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, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and 3 more to stay away.
AI assistants: asks PerplexityBot to stay away.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 22

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 28

User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 32

User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 33

User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 34

User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 35

User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 36

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /

Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 25

User-agent: PerplexityBot · 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: GIGA
Language: German (de)
What it tells search engines: NewsMediaOrganization, VideoObject

Named in its structured data

News Media OrganizationGIGA

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 page22 / 30

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10

Scored on the parts we could check.

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked

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 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

First archived in 1999.

17 Jan 1999First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
16 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

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

1999: captured
2000: captured
2001: captured
2002: captured
2003: captured
2004: captured
2005: captured
2006: captured
2007: captured
2008: captured
2009: captured
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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

928 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 giga.de

What is giga.de?

GIGA describes itself: “Bei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund um Technik, Games und Entertainment.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is giga.de?

The web archive first saw it on 17 Jan 1999, 27 years ago. See the evidence

What is giga.de built with?

It uses Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront and Google Workspace; we found 7 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is giga.de?

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

Was giga.de 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 giga.de?

GIGA, named by its structured data, its copyright line 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 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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