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grainger.com looks like an online shop, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1994. It uses Cloudflare, Akamai and Akamai Edge DNS; 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: #7,006 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #8,058

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#7,006list 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#8,058list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

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

Everything else it uses (20)

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

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

0 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered23 Mar 1994, 32 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 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 registered23 Mar 1994, 32 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: Online shop.

In its own wordsWhoops, we couldn't find that.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q1627894: W. W. Grainger, hardware store chain
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Who is behind it

  • WikidataW. W. Grainger

Wikidata: Based in Lake Forest, United States; founded by William W. Grainger; listed on New York Stock Exchange.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q1627894: W. W. Grainger
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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

  • W. W. Grainger: American industrial supply company · public company, hardware store chain, business · since 1927

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
Not given
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
None

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

64 of 100: some trust signals.

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

64OF 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 engines0 / 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 32 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 engines0 / 10site name differs from the domain · no description · doesn’t tell 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 1994; first archived in 1996.

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

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

  1. 1996: captured
  2. 1997: captured
  3. 1998: captured
  4. 1999: captured
  5. 2000: captured
  6. 2001: captured
  7. 2002: captured
  8. 2003: captured
  9. 2004: captured
  10. 2005: captured
  11. 2006: captured
  12. 2007: captured
  13. 2008: captured
  14. 2009: captured
  15. 2010: captured
  16. 2011: captured
  17. 2012: captured
  18. 2013: captured
  19. 2014: captured
  20. 2015: captured
  21. 2016: captured
  22. 2017: captured
  23. 2018: captured
  24. 2019: captured
  25. 2020: captured
  26. 2021: captured
  27. 2022: captured
  28. 2023: captured
  29. 2024: captured
  30. 2025: captured
  31. 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 18 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.

All the evidence →

Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#7,006list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#8,058list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CDN
Cloudflare, Akamai
DNS
Akamai Edge DNS
Email
Microsoft 365, Valimail
SEO
Google Search Console
Business tools
Meta Business, Apple Business, Atlassian, Adobe, OpenAI (business account), Docker, Jamf, Figma, MongoDB, JetBrains, TeamViewer, LiveRamp, OneTrust (account), Dynatrace (account)
Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageNot found
  • About pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNot found
  • TermsNot found
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsNot found
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersFound
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • 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? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

64OF 100

Some trust signals. An open formula (v1.1): every point comes from a finding above. AI traces carry no weight.

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 engines0 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about grainger.com

What is grainger.com?

It looks like an online shop. See the evidence

How old is grainger.com?

Its domain was registered on 23 Mar 1994, 32 years ago. See the evidence

What is grainger.com built with?

It uses Cloudflare, Akamai and Akamai Edge DNS; we found 20 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is grainger.com?

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

Was grainger.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 grainger.com?

Wikidata names W. W. Grainger. See the evidence

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 18 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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