Observador

observador.pt

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteObservador – Notícias, Opinião, Especiais, Explicadores e NewslettersAs notícias não têm hora marcada, o nosso jornalismo também não. E porque a informação é livre, nós também somos – livres de grupos, interesses e preconceitos.

Observador (observador.pt) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2012. It is built with WordPress, Sign in with Google and jQuery; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #14,407 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #9,647

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#14,407list 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#9,647list of 8 Oct 2026

Built with WordPress, jQuery and Sign in with Google.

  • WordPressCMSShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 45
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://observador.pt/wp-content/themes/observador-child/assets/vendor/tippy/tippy.css?__obsver=2f18ba1d">
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  • jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 9484
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.0.min.js?ver=6.8.3">
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  • Sign in with GoogleBackendShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 9482
    <script src="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/client?ver=6.8.3">
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Everything else it uses (14)

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

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

5 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered19 Nov 2012, 13 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 51Masked 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.
    "email": "l•••@observador.pt"
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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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 51Masked 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.
    "email": "l•••@observador.pt"
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  • Company detailsName: Observador On Time, S.A., address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Meta Pixel, 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 registered19 Nov 2012, 13 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.dns.pt)
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settingsNone in placeNot found
  • Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS records

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What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsObservador – Notícias, Opinião, Especiais, Explicadores e NewslettersAs notícias não têm hora marcada, o nosso jornalismo também não. E porque a informação é livre, nós também somos – livres de grupos, interesses e preconceitos.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q25442845: Observador, online newspaper
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 83
<link rel="alternate" href="https://observador.pt/feed/">
Exhibit 4 · its own title or description
Observador – Notícias, Opinião, Especiais, Explicadores e Newsletters · Observador · As notícias não têm hora marcada, o nosso jornalismo também não. E porque a
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataObservador On Time, S.A.
  • WikidataObservador

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in Portugal.

Its X and Instagram accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 51
"name": "Observador On Time, S.A."
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q25442845: Observador
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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

  • Observador: Portuguese electronic newspaper · website, online newspaper, fact-checking organisation · since 2014

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 img2dataset and Bytespider to stay away.
  • AI training: names Google-Extended, AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Amazonbot and 18 more with rules for some pages.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 46
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 50
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 9
User-agent: Google-Extended
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 12
User-agent: AI2Bot
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 13
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 14
User-agent: Amazonbot
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 15
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 17
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 18
User-agent: CCBot
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 20
User-agent: Claude-Web
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 21
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 22
User-agent: cohere-ai
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 23
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 24
User-agent: Diffbot
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: GPTBot
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 29
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 31
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 34
User-agent: omgili
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: omgilibot
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 36
User-agent: PanguBot
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 37
User-agent: Timpibot
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 40
User-agent: YouBot
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
Observador
Language
Portuguese (pt-PT)
What it tells search engines
NewsMediaOrganization, WebSite

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationObservadorLisboa, PT

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

92 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

92OF 100
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 protections11 / 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 given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 13 years ago
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

Registered in 2012.

  1. Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.dns.pt)
  2. 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

928 checks on 27 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 observador.pt

What is observador.pt?

Observador describes itself: “As notícias não têm hora marcada, o nosso jornalismo também não. E porque a informação é livre, nós também somos – livres de grupos, interesses e preconceitos.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is observador.pt?

Its domain was registered on 19 Nov 2012, 13 years ago. See the evidence

What is observador.pt built with?

It is built with WordPress, Sign in with Google and jQuery; we found 17 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is observador.pt?

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

Was observador.pt 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 observador.pt?

Observador On Time, S.A., 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 27 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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