Manchester Evening News

manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Scanned 18 Oct 2026Fresh929 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteManchester Evening News: Number one for news, opinion, sport & celebrity newsManchester Evening News - Covering central and Greater Manchester, including news from Oldham, Rochdale and Glossop.

Manchester Evening News (manchestereveningnews.co.uk) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1996. It is built with Next.js, styled-components 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.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #7,445 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #3,261

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#7,445	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 10,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#3,261	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

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

Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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<script src="/nav-web-static/main-62eb2125bf1f0a9b9477939124a94165b807dd2f/_next/static/chunks/4bd1b696-71ef723f47b3f1f9.js">
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Evidence · page source, line 23
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2 attributes starting with data-styled
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Evidence · response header
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x-varnish: 536725204 536998170
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Everything else it uses (12)

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

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Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4cb223b5c2f75ca-SEA
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Evidence · response header
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x-amz-cf-id: EdauLJ5VzTFBeLz5E44kZmN9GNccE_fayaR0tNiYWzx4xc9i9v8j0w==
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Evidence · DNS record
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manchestereveningnews.co.uk NS ns-1409.awsdns-48.org.
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Evidence · DNS record
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manchestereveningnews.co.uk MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
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Evidence · DNS record
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manchestereveningnews.co.uk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ~all
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Google Ad ManagerAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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<link rel="preload" href="https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js" as="script">
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Evidence · page source, line 73
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…et_type\":\"mix\"},\"loaderScript\":\"//cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/tmg-network/loader.js\",\"size\"…
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Evidence · DNS record
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manchestereveningnews.co.uk TXT google-site-verification=-Q8avi_QdTfvP9poMis-mOubI1mQouOszvkQThANb_c
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Evidence · page source, line 73
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…erstitialForLiveEvent\":true,\"isReplaceJWPlayerWithPrimis\":true,\"isPrimisWaitForLight…
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Evidence · DNS record
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manchestereveningnews.co.uk TXT facebook-domain-verification=xopjuwkz5c9fvcg0j0x6k7ppwvlud8
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Evidence · DNS record
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manchestereveningnews.co.uk TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1QfVes
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Evidence · DNS record

manchestereveningnews.co.uk TXT tollbit-domain-verification=78dada5ce6f14ee1e0cde7d2d68700253a3b66260a778a2a7e2b46f8045de225

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 registered19 Dec 1996, 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: Manchester Evening NewsPartly
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 registered19 Dec 1996, 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 wordsManchester Evening News: Number one for news, opinion, sport & celebrity newsManchester Evening News - Covering central and Greater Manchester, including news from Oldham, Rochdale and Glossop.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data

"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q3070672: Manchester Evening News, daily newspaper

Exhibit 3 · page source, line 1

<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/rss.xml">

Exhibit 4 · its own title or description

Manchester Evening News: Number one for news, opinion, sport & celebrity news · Manchester Evening News · Manchester Evening News - Covering central and Greater

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Who is behind it

structured dataManchester Evening News
copyright lineM.E.N Media
WikidataManchester Evening News

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Reach plc; based in Chadderton, United Kingdom.

Its X account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 73

"name": "Manchester Evening News"

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 73

© 2026 M.E.N Media

Exhibit 3 · Wikidata

Q3070672: Manchester Evening News

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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

Manchester Evening News: newspaper covering the Manchester area of the United Kingdom · daily newspaper · since 1868

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 19

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 25

User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 34

User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 37

User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 40

User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 43

User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /

Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 46

User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /

Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 61

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /

Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 22

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 28

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: Manchester Evening News
Language: English (en)
What it tells search engines: CollectionPage, NewsMediaOrganization, ItemList

Named in its structured data

News Media OrganizationManchester Evening News

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.

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 1996; first archived in 1999.

19 Dec 1996Domain registeredRDAP
25 Jan 1999First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
18 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

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

1999: captured
2000: captured
2001: captured
2002: captured
2003: captured
2004: captured
2005: captured
2006: captured
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2014: captured
2015: captured
2016: captured
2017: captured
2018: captured
2019: captured
2020: captured
2021: captured
2022: captured
2023: captured
2024: captured
2025: captured
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 18 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 manchestereveningnews.co.uk

What is manchestereveningnews.co.uk?

Manchester Evening News describes itself: “Manchester Evening News - Covering central and Greater Manchester, including news from Oldham, Rochdale and Glossop.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is manchestereveningnews.co.uk?

Its domain was registered on 19 Dec 1996, 29 years ago. See the evidence

What is manchestereveningnews.co.uk built with?

It is built with Next.js, styled-components and Varnish; we found 15 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is manchestereveningnews.co.uk?

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

Was manchestereveningnews.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 manchestereveningnews.co.uk?

Manchester Evening News, 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 18 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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