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Nine.com.au

nine.com.au

Scanned Fresh927 checks

89OF 100
How it adds up →
In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news sitenine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the worldMeet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withstyled-components, Varnish28 technologies foundTrust signals5 of 7 foundDomain age unknownBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

nine.com.au looks like a blog or news site and is ranked in the top 10,000 sites. It is built with 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.

Tranco: #4,589 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #3,095

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#4,589list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#3,095list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with styled-components and Varnish.

  • styled-componentsCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 2
    2 attributes starting with data-styled
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  • VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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Everything else it uses (26)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager and more.

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

5 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 pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • 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 pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: Nine.com.au, address givenFound
  • 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 (15 Aug 2026)Couldn’t checkdomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settingsNone in placeNot found
  • 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 wordsnine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the worldMeet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q7038497: Ninemsn, news website
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world · Nine.com.au · Meet th
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 437
<a href="https://www.domain.com.au/news/?utm_source=nine.com.au&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial-nav-bar">DomainexternalLink</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataNine.com.au
  • copyright lineNine Entertainment Co
  • WikidataNinemsn

Wikidata: Owned by Mi9; based in Australia.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 437
"name": "Nine.com.au"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 437
© 2026 Nine Entertainment Co.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q7038497: Ninemsn
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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

  • Ninemsn: Australian news and current events website · news website, business · since 1997

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 Google-Extended, GPTBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web and 15 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks Google-CloudVertexBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, meta-externalfetcher and 2 more to stay away.
Show evidence (25)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 37
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 53
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 55
User-agent: claude-web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 57
User-agent: claudebot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 62
User-agent: facebookbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 64
User-agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 71
User-agent: applebot-extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 81
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 86
User-agent: youbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 91
User-agent: amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 118
User-agent: bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 123
User-agent: ccbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 133
User-agent: diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 153
User-agent: imagesiftbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 173
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 175
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 177
User-agent: webzio-extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 219
User-agent: timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 42
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 46
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 66
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 76
User-agent: perplexitybot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 138
User-agent: duckassistbot · 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
Nine.com.au
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, NewsMediaOrganization

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationNine.com.auNorth Sydney, AU

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

89 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

89OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 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 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
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on 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.

  1. This 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

927 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

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 →

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How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#4,589list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#3,095list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CSS framework
styled-components
Web server
Varnish

And 26 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager), 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 detailsNot found
  • Company detailsFound
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredCouldn’t check
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersNot found
  • 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?

89OF 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 page26 / 30
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about nine.com.au

What is nine.com.au?

nine.com.au describes itself: “Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

What is nine.com.au built with?

It is built with styled-components and Varnish; we found 28 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is nine.com.au?

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

Was nine.com.au 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 nine.com.au?

Its structured data names Nine.com.au. 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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