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Malaysiakini (malaysiakini.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1999. It is built with Astro and Swiper; 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: #16,206 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #21,886

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#16,206list of 27 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Sep 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#21,886list of 28 Oct 2026
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Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Astro and Swiper.

  • AstroFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <meta name="generator" content="Astro v7.3.2">
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  • SwiperJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 367
    1 class names starting with swiper-wrapper
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Everything else it uses (11)

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

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

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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

6 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered14 Apr 1999, 27 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsEmail and phone on the home pageFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 54Masked 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.
    <a href="mailto:s•••@malaysiakini.com">Email</a>
    Exhibit 2 · page source, line 54Masked 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.
    <a href="https://wa.me/60•••••••07">Contact Support</a>
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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 pageFound
  • 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 detailsEmail and phone on the home pageFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 54Masked 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.
    <a href="mailto:s•••@malaysiakini.com">Email</a>
    Exhibit 2 · page source, line 54Masked 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.
    <a href="https://wa.me/60•••••••07">Contact Support</a>
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  • Company detailsName: Malaysiakini, address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, Google Ad ManagerNoted

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 registered14 Apr 1999, 27 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings1 of 6 in placePartly
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

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What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsMalaysiakiniNews and views that matter

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

Also has signs of: Local business.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 6
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/rss/en/news.rss">
Exhibit 2 · its own title or description
Malaysiakini · Malaysiakini · News and views that matter
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 362
<a href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/888148-azam-baki-shareholdings-govt-keeping-report-under-wraps-for-now">Top StoryAzam Baki shareholdings: Govt keeping report under wraps for nowThis comes despite PM's pledge to reveal 'corporate mafia' report, even if Azam implicated.5min ago0</a>
Exhibit 4 · visible text
…won't go away CARTOONKINI More FEATURED MOST READ MOST COMMENTED How did a PAS nominee en…
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataMalaysiakini
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 28
"name": "Malaysiakini"
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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

Find them on

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

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
Malaysiakini
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
LocalBusiness, Organization

Named in its structured data

  • BusinessMalaysiakini
  • OrganizationMalaysiakini

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

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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 2,275 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

How we test it · Every builder we know · How to tell if a site was built with AI

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AI access

AI Crawler Checker

Ready for AI: it scores 82 of 100.

It lets every AI crawler in: the site’s choice, never scored.

82of 100

AI readiness

AI-friendly

It says what it is in structured data and lists its pages.

  1. Findable
  2. Readable
  3. AI-friendly

To reach Agent-ready:Files for AI agents +10

Can AI find it?

30/32

Can AI read it?

52/58

Can agents use it?

0/10

Optional: for sites with an API or a sign-in.

Higher than 56% of the 2,439 most visited sites we read, whose median is 72.

Checked 30 Oct 2026
Optional: 4 fixes few sites have yetup to +18 points

  • Files for AI agents

    Now None of the 8 we look for.

    If agents could use the site, publish what they need where they look.

    Details

    Why it matters: Agents act for people: they look for these files to know what a site lets them do. Worth it only if agents can use the site.

    Prompt for your coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, your builder’s chat)
    If AI agents could use https://www.malaysiakini.com for its visitors (to search it, book, buy or sign in), publish what they need at the standard addresses, and only what the site really offers: an MCP server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json if it runs an MCP server, an API catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog (RFC 9727) listing its public APIs, and OAuth protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (RFC 9728) if agents sign in.
    +10optional

  • llms.txt

    Now None found.

    Publish a short Markdown summary of the site at /llms.txt.

    Details

    Why it matters: A short summary for AI models, at an address they can find. A proposal: few AI companies say they read it yet.

    Prompt for your coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, your builder’s chat)
    Create https://www.malaysiakini.com/llms.txt as llmstxt.org describes it: a Markdown file with an H1 naming the site, a one-paragraph summary in a blockquote, and short sections listing its most useful pages as links, each with a line on what it holds. Serve it as text/plain or text/markdown.
    +4optional

  • Markdown copy

    Now Not offered: it sends the page’s HTML.

    Answer requests for Markdown with a Markdown version of the page.

    Details

    Why it matters: A Markdown copy gives AI tools the page’s words without the HTML around them.

    Prompt for your coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, your builder’s chat)
    When a request to https://www.malaysiakini.com asks for Markdown (its Accept header includes text/markdown), answer with a Markdown version of the page’s main content and the header Content-Type: text/markdown. Requests for HTML keep getting HTML; add Vary: Accept so caches keep the two apart.
    +2optional
Every check, with its evidence

Can AI find it?

  • robots.txtFound, 41 linesFound
  • Sitemap3 listed in robots.txt, and the first lists 177 sitemapsFound
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    Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 44
    Sitemap: https://www.malaysiakini.com/en/sitemap_index.xml
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  • Links for AI toolsNone in the home page’s headersNot found
  • Search listingAllowed: no noindex ruleAllowed

Can AI read it?

  • Text without scripts5,955 characters before scripts runFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page text, before scripts run
    Malaysiakini EN BM 中文 TA Sign In Subscribe Lifetime ACTIVE INACTIVE EXPIRED Registered on: Renews on: Expires on: ACTIVE INACTIVE EXPIRED Subscribe Renew Extend Subscription Settings Contact Support…
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  • Markdown copyNot offered: it sends the page’s HTMLNot found
  • llms.txtNone foundNot found
  • Title and descriptionBothFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1
    <title>Malaysiakini</title>
    Exhibit 2 · page source, line 6
    <meta name="description" content="News and views that matter">
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  • Structured dataFound: LocalBusiness and OrganizationFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 28
    <script type="application/ld+json">
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Can agents use it?

  • API catalogNone foundNot found
  • Sign-in for AI agentsNone foundNot found
  • Auth.mdNone foundNot found
  • AI catalogNone foundNot found
  • MCP serverNone foundNot found
  • Agent cardNone foundNot found
  • Agent SkillsNone foundNot found
  • Agents in DNSNone foundNot found

What it lets AI do

Not scored

Keeping AI out is the site’s choice, so it never lowers the score.

  • AI trainingOpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and 4 moreLet in
  • AI answers and searchOpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and 3 moreLet in
Every AI crawler, and how we checked

AI companies

Its robots.txt names none of the 24 crawlers of the 10 AI companies we know, so it lets every one in.

None of the 27 other AI crawlers we know is kept out.

What it tells AI crawlers

It gives no Content Signals and no “noai” tag.

If this is your site

  • Decide what AI may do with the site, and say it in robots.txt. Write the lines

Like 68% of the 1,691 popular sites whose robots.txt we read in October 2026, it keeps no AI training crawler out. How many websites block AI crawlers?

We read the site once, as our named bot: its robots.txt, read as crawlers read it, its home page and the files AI tools ask sites for. What we couldn’t read says so. robots.txt asks and doesn’t enforce: a firewall can treat AI crawlers differently from us.

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Score breakdown

Site Score

98 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

98of 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 protections13 / 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 27 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 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.

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Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 1999; first archived in 1999.

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

In the web archive: captured in 28 of 28 years · see the first capture

  1. 1999: captured
  2. 2000: captured
  3. 2001: captured
  4. 2002: captured
  5. 2003: captured
  6. 2004: captured
  7. 2005: captured
  8. 2006: captured
  9. 2007: captured
  10. 2008: captured
  11. 2009: captured
  12. 2010: captured
  13. 2011: captured
  14. 2012: captured
  15. 2013: captured
  16. 2014: captured
  17. 2015: captured
  18. 2016: captured
  19. 2017: captured
  20. 2018: captured
  21. 2019: captured
  22. 2020: captured
  23. 2021: captured
  24. 2022: captured
  25. 2023: captured
  26. 2024: captured
  27. 2025: captured
  28. 2026: captured
Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.
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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

937 checks on 30 Oct 2026, with version 0.6.0 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 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#16,206list of 27 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Sep 2026
  • Majestic Million#21,886list of 28 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Framework
Astro
JavaScript library
Swiper

And 11 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 detailsFound
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • 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 →

Related

How has it changed? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

98of 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 protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Questions about malaysiakini.com

What is malaysiakini.com?

Malaysiakini describes itself: “News and views that matter” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is malaysiakini.com?

Its domain was registered on 14 Apr 1999, 27 years ago. See the evidence

What is malaysiakini.com built with?

It is built with Astro and Swiper; we found 13 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is malaysiakini.com?

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

Was malaysiakini.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 malaysiakini.com?

Its structured data names Malaysiakini. 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 30 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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