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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteHLN - Het Laatste Nieuws - Volg het nieuws op de nr1 nieuwssite in België, HLN.be brengt je het allerlaatste nieuws 24/24 en 7/7, uit binnen - en buitenland, evenals dichtbij met nieuws uit je eigen regio. | hln.beHLN - Het Laatste Nieuws - Volg het nieuws op de nr1 nieuwssite in België, HLN.be brengt je het allerlaatste nieuws 24/24 en 7/7, uit binnen - en buitenland, evenals dichtbij met nieuws uit je eigen regio.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withContentful15 technologies foundTrust signals5 of 7 foundDomain registered 27 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

hln.be looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1999. It is built with Contentful; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #1,264 · Chrome UX Report: Top 1,000 · Majestic Million: #5,310

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#1,264list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 1,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#5,310list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Contentful.

  • ContentfulCMSShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 152
    …t Laatste Nieuws","url":"https://images.ctfassets.net/765y2hpj99ul/3ZqBYRwc8pOG8vzlZWsSfC/384…
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Everything else it uses (14)

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

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

5 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered11 Mar 1999, 27 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 152Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    "telephone": "08•-••• ••50"
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  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • 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 pageLinked from the home pageFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 152Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    "telephone": "08•-••• ••50"
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  • Company detailsName: Het Laatste Nieuws, address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Google AnalyticsNoted

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 registered11 Mar 1999, 27 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.dns.be)
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings6 of 6 in placeFound
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

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What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsHLN - Het Laatste Nieuws - Volg het nieuws op de nr1 nieuwssite in België, HLN.be brengt je het allerlaatste nieuws 24/24 en 7/7, uit binnen - en buitenland, evenals dichtbij met nieuws uit je eigen regio. | hln.beHLN - Het Laatste Nieuws - Volg het nieuws op de nr1 nieuwssite in België, HLN.be brengt je het allerlaatste nieuws 24/24 en 7/7, uit binnen - en buitenland, evenals dichtbij met nieuws uit je eigen regio.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q1457499: Het Laatste Nieuws, daily newspaper
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 313
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.hln.be/home/rss.xml">
Exhibit 4 · its own title or description
HLN - Het Laatste Nieuws - Volg het nieuws op de nr1 nieuwssite in België, HLN.be brengt je het allerlaatste nieuws 24/24 en 7/7, uit binnen - en buitenland, ev
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataHet Laatste Nieuws
  • WikidataHet Laatste Nieuws

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by De Persgroep; part of DPG Media; based in Brussels metropolitan area, Belgium; founded by Julius Hoste, Sr..

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 152
"name": "Het Laatste Nieuws"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q1457499: Het Laatste Nieuws
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More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

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.

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The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: asks GPTBot, CCBot, anthropic-ai, Amazonbot and 10 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, meta-externalfetcher, PerplexityBot, MistralAI-User and 4 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 41
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 47
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 50
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 53
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 56
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 59
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 62
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 65
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 68
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 77
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 80
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 92
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 71
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 74
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 83
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 95
User-agent: YandexAdditional · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 98
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 107
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 113
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · 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
hln.be
Language
Dutch (nl)
What it tells search engines
WebSite, CollectionPage, ItemList, BreadcrumbList, NewsMediaOrganization, Place, ImageObject, Organization

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationHet Laatste Nieuws
  • OrganizationDPG Media België

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.

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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 / 30no contact page link · email and phone given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 27 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 1999; first archived in 2000.

  1. Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.dns.be)
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. First scanned by usCheckAnySite
  4. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 27 of 27 years · see the first capture

  1. 2000: captured
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  3. 2002: captured
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  20. 2019: captured
  21. 2020: captured
  22. 2021: captured
  23. 2022: captured
  24. 2023: captured
  25. 2024: captured
  26. 2025: captured
  27. 2026: captured
Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
No changes since 10 Oct 2026.
ScannedScoreAI tracesPopularity
shown above92None foundTop 1K
92None foundTop 1K

Findings can change when a site changes or when we update our signatures; each scan keeps the version it used.

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 14 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

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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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How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#1,264list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 1,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#5,310list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

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What is it built with?

CMS
Contentful

And 14 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

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Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageNot found
  • About pageFound
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsFound
  • Company detailsFound
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersFound
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECFound
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactFound

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

Every signal with its source →

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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 →

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 14 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

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  • 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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