GIPHY

giphy.com

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In its own wordsLooks like: Forum or communityGIPHY - Be AnimatedGIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.

GIPHY (giphy.com) looks like a forum or community, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 2012. It is built with Next.js and styled-components; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #1,113 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #489

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#1,113list 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#489list of 8 Oct 2026

Built with Next.js and styled-components.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="/_next/static/chunks/87c73c54-fc16a70aa3629831.js">
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  • styled-componentsCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    14 attributes starting with data-styled
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Everything else it uses (16)

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

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

0 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered27 Nov 2012, 13 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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: GIPHYPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Comscore, Meta PixelNoted

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 registered27 Nov 2012, 13 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings2 of 6 in placePartly
  • 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: Forum or community.

In its own wordsGIPHY - Be AnimatedGIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q17054335: Giphy, online community
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataGIPHY
  • WikidataGiphy

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Shutterstock.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 95
"name": "GIPHY"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q17054335: Giphy
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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

  • Giphy: website hosting animated GIFs · website, online community · since 2013

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.
  • Its pages are marked “noai”.
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1
<meta name="robots" content="noai, noimageai">
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
GIPHY
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, Organization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationGIPHY

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

74 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

74OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page4 / 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 page4 / 30no contact page link · email and phone not both given · no privacy policy link · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 13 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K 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 2012; first archived in 2013.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 14 of 14 years · see the first capture

  1. 2013: captured
  2. 2014: captured
  3. 2015: captured
  4. 2016: captured
  5. 2017: captured
  6. 2018: captured
  7. 2019: captured
  8. 2020: captured
  9. 2021: captured
  10. 2022: captured
  11. 2023: captured
  12. 2024: captured
  13. 2025: captured
  14. 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

925 checks on 11 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: forum or community

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 11 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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