mdr.de

Scanned 14 Oct 2026Fresh928 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news sitemdr.de – Radio, Fernsehen, Nachrichten für Mitteldeutschland | mdr.deNachrichten, Sport, Kultur, Unterhaltung aus Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen und der Welt. Und der Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk in der Audiothek und Mediathek.

mdr.de looks like a blog or news site and is ranked in the top 10,000 sites. It is built with 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: #4,347 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #2,503

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#4,347	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 5,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#2,503	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Varnish.

VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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x-varnish: 1509839 3410863
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Everything else it uses (8)

Around it: CDN, Email, SEO, Business tools.

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4a76d304e1e7688-SEA
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AkamaiCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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www.mdr.de CNAME www.mdr.de.edgekey.net.
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Microsoft 365EmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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mdr.de MX 50 mdr-de.mail.protection.outlook.com.
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Evidence · DNS record

mdr.de TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mailjet.com mx ip4:193.22.38.208 ip4:193.22.38.102 ip4:193.22.38.202 ip4:193.22.38.108 ip4:…

Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 73
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<meta name="google-site-verification" content="UFGHfMxMuN8_GWskwlTCQLo0-3k5n623rbtvsAMVWNw">
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Pinterest BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 71
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<meta property="p:domain_verify" content="bcc0c76591a0afb863ba2da3efb1cef4">
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Apple BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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mdr.de TXT apple-domain-verification=J0yuzFV6I1rnCIbz
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AdobeBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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mdr.de TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=6cbe650e-3a64-4581-bdfc-9b3c7589a607
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Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

3 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

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
TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
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
TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

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 registeredThe registry publishes no registration date, only when the record last changed (30 May 2016)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings3 of 6 in placePartly
Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS 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 wordsmdr.de – Radio, Fernsehen, Nachrichten für Mitteldeutschland | mdr.deNachrichten, Sport, Kultur, Unterhaltung aus Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen und der Welt. Und der Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk in der Audiothek und Mediathek.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 110

<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.mdr.de/index~atom.xml">

Exhibit 2 · its own title or description

mdr.de – Radio, Fernsehen, Nachrichten für Mitteldeutschland | mdr.de · mdr.de · Nachrichten, Sport, Kultur, Unterhaltung aus Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen

Exhibit 3 · page source, line 4409

<a href="/newsletter">MDR Newsletter</a>

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Who is behind it

WikidataMitteldeutscher Rundfunk

Wikidata: Based in Leipzig, Germany.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q158948: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

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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

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk: public broadcaster for the federal states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt · German public state broadcaster, production company · since 1991

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.

AI use

AI training: asks Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ClaudeBot and 11 more to stay away.
AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 8

User-agent: applebot-extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 12

User-agent: bytespider · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 16

User-agent: ccbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 20

User-agent: claudebot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 24

User-agent: google-extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 28

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /

Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 32

User-agent: deepseekbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 42

User-agent: diffbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 46

User-agent: facebookbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 49

User-agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /

Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 53

User-agent: gptbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 61

User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /

Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 72

User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /

Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 75

User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 79

User-agent: pangubot · 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: mdr.de
Language: German (de)
What it tells search engines: collectionPage, ItemList

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.

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

Score breakdown

Site Score

87 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10

Scored on the parts we could check.

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked

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.

Domain history

Domain History

No registration date or archive capture found.

14 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached; we’ll ask it again. Why can this be empty?

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 14 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 mdr.de

What is mdr.de?

mdr.de describes itself: “Nachrichten, Sport, Kultur, Unterhaltung aus Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen und der Welt. Und der Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk in der Audiothek und Mediathek.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

What is mdr.de built with?

It is built with Varnish; we found 9 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is mdr.de?

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

Was mdr.de 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 mdr.de?

Wikidata names Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. 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 14 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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