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Metro (metro.co.uk) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 2000. It is built with WordPress, WordPress VIP and WordPress.com; 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: #3,252 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #964

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#3,252list 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#964list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with WordPress, WordPress VIP and WordPress.com.

  • WordPressCMSShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 70
    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 7.1.3">
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  • WordPress VIPHostingShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-powered-by: WordPress VIP <https://wpvip.com>
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  • WordPress.comHostingShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-hacker: If you're reading this, you should visit https://join.a8c.com/viphacker and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
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Everything else it uses (19)

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

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

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.

  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 72Masked 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.
    "telephone": "+44-••-••••-••00"
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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 pageFound
  • 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 72Masked 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.
    "telephone": "+44-••-••••-••00"
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  • Company detailsName: Metro, address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, Jetpack StatsNoted

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 didn’t answerCouldn’t checkdomain registry
  • First seen online19 Jun 2000, 26 years agoNotedInternet Archive
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings1 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 wordsMetro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from MetroMetro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q3307433: Metro, daily newspaper
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 71
<link rel="alternate" href="/feed/">
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro · Metro · Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 256
<a href="https://metro.co.uk/newsletters/">Newsletters</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataMetro
  • copyright lineAssociated Newspapers Limited
  • WikidataMetro

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by DMG Media; based in United Kingdom.

Its Facebook and X accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 72
"name": "Metro"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 2929
© 2026 Associated Newspapers Limited
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q3307433: Metro
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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

  • Metro: British free daily newspaper · daily newspaper · since 1999

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 AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai and 25 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, DuckAssistBot and 7 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 74
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 75
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 76
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 78
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 79
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 81
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 83
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 84
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 86
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 89
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 90
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 91
User-agent: Cotoyogi · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 92
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 93
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 96
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 100
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 104
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 107
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 108
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 109
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 115
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 120
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 121
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 122
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 131
User-agent: TikTokSpider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 132
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 133
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 135
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 138
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 85
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 87
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 88
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 33 · robots.txt, line 94
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 34 · robots.txt, line 99
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 35 · robots.txt, line 106
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 · Disallow: /
Exhibit 36 · robots.txt, line 116
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 37 · robots.txt, line 117
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 38 · robots.txt, line 119
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 39 · robots.txt, line 123
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 40 · robots.txt, line 124
User-agent: Perplexity-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
Metro
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebSite, Organization, VideoObject

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationMetroLondon, GB

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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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

97 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

97OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page30 / 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 page30 / 30contact page linked · email and phone given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K 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

First archived in 2000.

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

In the web archive: captured in 27 of 27 years · see the first capture

  1. 2000: captured
  2. 2001: captured
  3. 2002: captured
  4. 2003: captured
  5. 2004: captured
  6. 2005: captured
  7. 2006: captured
  8. 2007: captured
  9. 2008: captured
  10. 2009: captured
  11. 2010: captured
  12. 2011: captured
  13. 2012: captured
  14. 2013: captured
  15. 2014: captured
  16. 2015: captured
  17. 2016: captured
  18. 2017: captured
  19. 2018: captured
  20. 2019: captured
  21. 2020: captured
  22. 2021: captured
  23. 2022: captured
  24. 2023: captured
  25. 2024: captured
  26. 2025: captured
  27. 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

928 checks on 13 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.

All the evidence →

Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#3,252list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#964list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CMS
WordPress
Hosting
WordPress VIP, WordPress.com

And 19 more around it (CDN, Security, DNS, Email), 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 registeredCouldn’t check
  • First seen onlineNoted
  • 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?

97OF 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
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 →

Related

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 13 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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