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PC Gamer (pcgamer.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1995. It is built with Tailwind CSS, Material UI 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: #5,456 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #1,796

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#5,456list of 27 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Sep 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#1,796list of 28 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS and Material UI and 1 more.

  • Alpine.jsJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 3419
    59 attributes starting with x-data
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  • Tailwind CSSCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1648
    /*! tailwindcss v4.3.0 | MIT License | https://tailwindcs…
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  • Material UICSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 9129
    …trict";function r(e){for(var t="https://mui.com/production-error/?code="+e,n=1;n<arguments.length;n+=1)t+…
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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 (15)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics 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.

  • Domain registered21 Feb 1995, 31 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 83Masked 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": "e•••@pcgamer.com"
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  • 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 pageFound
  • 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 detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 83Masked 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": "e•••@pcgamer.com"
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  • Company detailsName: PC GamerPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: ComscoreNoted

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 registered21 Feb 1995, 31 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings3 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 wordsPC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 101
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.pcgamer.com/feeds.xml">
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 3570
<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/newsletter/">Manage newsletters</a>
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 4210
<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/tag/opinion/">Latest opinion</a>
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 7176
<a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/author/christopher-livingston/">Chris Livingston Senior Editor, foremost NPC scholar</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataPC Gamer
  • copyright lineFuture US, Inc
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 83
"name": "PC Gamer"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 9082
© Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
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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

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The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: asks Bytespider, AI2Bot, YouBot, Omgili and 5 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks meta-webindexer to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: ai2bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: youbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 40
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 41
User-agent: diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 43
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 46
User-Agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 49
User-Agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 47
User-Agent: meta-webindexer · 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
PC Gamer
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, WebSite, Organization, SiteNavigationElement, ItemList

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationPC Gamer

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

98 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

98OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page30 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines8 / 10
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
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 31 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines8 / 10site name matches the domain · no description · 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 1995.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
  3. 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

926 checks on 28 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

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How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#5,456list of 27 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Sep 2026
  • Majestic Million#1,796list of 28 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

JavaScript library
Alpine.js
CSS framework
Tailwind CSS, Material UI
Web server
Varnish

And 15 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics), 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 detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateNoted
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactCouldn’t check

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?

98OF 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
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines8 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about pcgamer.com

What is pcgamer.com?

It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is pcgamer.com?

Its domain was registered on 21 Feb 1995, 31 years ago. See the evidence

What is pcgamer.com built with?

It is built with Tailwind CSS, Material UI and Varnish; we found 19 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is pcgamer.com?

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

Was pcgamer.com 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 pcgamer.com?

Its structured data names PC Gamer. See the evidence

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 28 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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