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huffpost.com

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100OF 100
How it adds up →
In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteHuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & OpinionRead the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withExpress, Varnish27 technologies foundTrust signals5 of 7 foundDomain registered 21 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

HuffPost (huffpost.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 2005. It is built with Express and Varnish; 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: #1,075 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #330

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#1,075list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#330list of 8 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 (25)

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 registered10 Mar 2005, 21 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 70Masked 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": "c•••@huffpost.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 pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • 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 70Masked 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": "c•••@huffpost.com"
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  • Company detailsName: HuffPostPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers3 analytics and advertising tools: Comscore, Outbrain, 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 registered10 Mar 2005, 21 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings5 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: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsHuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & OpinionRead the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q18049522: HuffPost, online newspaper
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion · HuffPost · Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pie
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 362
<a href="/news/">News</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataHuffPost
  • copyright lineBuzzFeed, Inc
  • WikidataHuffPost

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

Wikidata: Owned by BuzzFeed; based in New York City, United States; founded by Andrew Breitbart, Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer and 1 more.

Its X account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 70
"name": "HuffPost"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 686
Part of HuffPost News. ©2026 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q18049522: HuffPost
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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

  • HuffPost: American online news aggregator and blog · online newspaper, news aggregation website · since 2005

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 Amazonbot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and 12 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, DuckAssistBot, meta-externalfetcher, OAI-SearchBot and 4 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 20
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 23
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 26
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 29
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 32
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 41
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 47
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 53
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 56
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 59
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 71
User-agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 86
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 92
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 101
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 50
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 74
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 77
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 80
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 83
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 95
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 98
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
HuffPost
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
NewsMediaOrganization, WebSite, WebPage, ItemList

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationHuffPost

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

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Score breakdown

Site Score

100 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

100OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page30 / 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 page30 / 30contact page linked · 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 21 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 2005; first archived in 2006.

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

In the web archive: captured in 21 of 21 years · see the first capture

  1. 2006: captured
  2. 2007: captured
  3. 2008: captured
  4. 2009: captured
  5. 2010: captured
  6. 2011: captured
  7. 2012: captured
  8. 2013: captured
  9. 2014: captured
  10. 2015: captured
  11. 2016: captured
  12. 2017: captured
  13. 2018: captured
  14. 2019: captured
  15. 2020: captured
  16. 2021: captured
  17. 2022: captured
  18. 2023: captured
  19. 2024: captured
  20. 2025: captured
  21. 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

929 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

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.

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How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#1,075list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#330list of 8 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 25 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 pageFound
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsFound
  • Company detailsPartly
  • 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 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 has it changed? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

100OF 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 page30 / 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 →

Related

More sites like this: blog or news site

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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