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ハフポスト

huffingtonpost.jp

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94OF 100
How it adds up →
In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteハフポスト - 日本や世界のニュース、会話を生み出す国際メディアハフポスト日本版は、政治やビジネス、社会情勢などを分かりやすく整理して提供。各分野の専門家や有識者と個人が意見をやり取りできる、ソーシャルニュースです。(ハフポスト、ハフポ)
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withExpress, Varnish19 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain registered 15 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

ハフポスト (huffingtonpost.jp) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2011. It is built with Express and Varnish; 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: #11,647 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #17,018

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#11,647list of 27 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Sep 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#17,018list of 28 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Express and Varnish.

  • ExpressFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-powered-by: Express
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  • VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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Everything else it uses (17)

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

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

4 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered6 Apr 2011, 15 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 77Masked 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.
    "email": "j•••@huffingtonpost.com"
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  • 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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 77Masked 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.
    "email": "j•••@huffingtonpost.com"
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  • Company detailsName: ハフポストPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers4 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, Comscore, Google Ad Manager, Amazon AdsNoted

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 registered6 Apr 2011, 15 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.jprs.jp)
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings3 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: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsハフポスト - 日本や世界のニュース、会話を生み出す国際メディアハフポスト日本版は、政治やビジネス、社会情勢などを分かりやすく整理して提供。各分野の専門家や有識者と個人が意見をやり取りできる、ソーシャルニュースです。(ハフポスト、ハフポ)

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q44128263: HuffPost Japan, online newspaper
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 606
<a href="/news/money/">Next-Gen Money ミライ投資クラブ</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataハフポスト
  • copyright lineBuzzFeed, Inc
  • WikidataHuffPost Japan

Wikidata: Owned by HuffPost and Asahi Shimbun Company; based in Japan.

Its X account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 77
"name": "ハフポスト"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 670
Part of HuffPost News. ©2026 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q44128263: HuffPost Japan
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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

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 meta-externalagent, Bytespider, Timpibot, ClaudeBot and 6 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks meta-externalfetcher, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, DuckAssistBot and 4 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 9
User-agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 17
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 23
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 25
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 29
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 47
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 11
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 13
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 15
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 19
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 21
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 31
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 41
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: Claude-User · 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
ハフポスト
Language
Japanese (ja)
What it tells search engines
NewsMediaOrganization, WebSite, WebPage, ItemList

Named in its structured data

  • News Media Organizationハフポスト

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

94 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

94OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 5
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30contact page linked · email and phone given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 15 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · no protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 5site name in another script than its address: couldn’t check · 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 2011; first archived in 2013.

  1. Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.jprs.jp)
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
  4. 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

928 checks on 28 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 →

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How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#11,647list of 27 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Sep 2026
  • Majestic Million#17,018list of 28 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Framework
Express
Web server
Varnish

And 17 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

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

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateNoted
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesFound
  • 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?

94OF 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 page26 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 5
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about huffingtonpost.jp

What is huffingtonpost.jp?

ハフポスト describes itself: “ハフポスト日本版は、政治やビジネス、社会情勢などを分かりやすく整理して提供。各分野の専門家や有識者と個人が意見をやり取りできる、ソーシャルニュースです。(ハフポスト、ハフポ)” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is huffingtonpost.jp?

Its domain was registered on 6 Apr 2011, 15 years ago. See the evidence

What is huffingtonpost.jp built with?

It is built with Express and Varnish; we found 19 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is huffingtonpost.jp?

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

Was huffingtonpost.jp 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 huffingtonpost.jp?

Its structured data names ハフポスト. See the evidence

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 28 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 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.
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