Liverpool Echo

liverpoolecho.co.uk

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteLiverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news sports and whats onLiverpool Echo the very latest Liverpool and Merseyside news sport whats on weather and travel. Plus the latest Liverpool FC and Everton FC news.

Liverpool Echo (liverpoolecho.co.uk) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1997. It is built with Next.js, styled-components and Varnish; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #11,172 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #4,885

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#11,172list 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#4,885list of 8 Oct 2026

Built with Next.js, styled-components and Varnish.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="/nav-web-static/main-796634f56e9cce0c9a00f35d7baa01e3ccd40310/_next/static/chunks/4bd1b696-71ef723f47b3f1f9.js">
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  • styled-componentsCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    2 attributes starting with data-styled
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  • VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-varnish: 768870282 769116290
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Everything else it uses (11)

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

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

4 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered6 Jun 1997, 29 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • 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 detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: Liverpool EchoPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Ad Manager, TaboolaNoted

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 Jun 1997, 29 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: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsLiverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news sports and whats onLiverpool Echo the very latest Liverpool and Merseyside news sport whats on weather and travel. Plus the latest Liverpool FC and Everton FC news.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q6658415: Liverpool Echo, daily newspaper
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 1
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/rss.xml">
Exhibit 4 · its own title or description
Liverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news sports and whats on · Liverpool Echo · Liverpool Echo the very latest Liverpool and Merseyside news sport w
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataLiverpool Echo
  • WikidataLiverpool Echo

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Reach plc.

Its Facebook, X and Instagram accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 53
"name": "Liverpool Echo"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q6658415: Liverpool Echo
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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

  • Liverpool Echo: English daily tabloid newspaper · daily newspaper · since 1879

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 GPTBot, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, YouBot and 4 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 18
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 24
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 36
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 42
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 45
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 60
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 21
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: PerplexityBot · 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
Liverpool Echo
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
CollectionPage, NewsMediaOrganization, ItemList

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationLiverpool Echo

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.

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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 engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both 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 29 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 · doesn’t insist on 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 1997; first archived in 1998.

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

In the web archive: captured in 29 of 29 years · see the first capture

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  27. 2024: captured
  28. 2025: captured
  29. 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 26 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

Questions about liverpoolecho.co.uk

What is liverpoolecho.co.uk?

Liverpool Echo describes itself: “Liverpool Echo the very latest Liverpool and Merseyside news sport whats on weather and travel. Plus the latest Liverpool FC and Everton FC news.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is liverpoolecho.co.uk?

Its domain was registered on 6 Jun 1997, 29 years ago. See the evidence

What is liverpoolecho.co.uk built with?

It is built with Next.js, styled-components and Varnish; we found 14 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is liverpoolecho.co.uk?

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

Was liverpoolecho.co.uk 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 liverpoolecho.co.uk?

Liverpool Echo, named by its structured data and Wikidata. See the evidence

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 26 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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