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Psychology Today

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88OF 100
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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news sitePsychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a TherapistView the latest from the world of psychology: from behavioral research to practical guidance on relationships, mental health and addiction. Find help from our directory of therapists, psychologists and counselors.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withDrupal, Varnish, jQuery15 technologies foundTrust signals3 of 7 foundDomain registered 28 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

Psychology Today (psychologytoday.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1997. It is built with Drupal, Varnish and jQuery; 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: #1,307 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #383

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#1,307list 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#383list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Drupal, jQuery and Varnish.

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    Evidence · response header
    x-drupal-cache: MISS
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  • jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 3411
    <script src="https://cdn2.psychologytoday.com/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=4.0.0-bust">
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  • VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
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    x-varnish: 454289459 445998098
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Everything else it uses (12)

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

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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.

  • Domain registered29 Dec 1997, 28 years agoNoted
  • 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 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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: Psychology TodayPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: 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 registered29 Dec 1997, 28 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • 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 wordsPsychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a TherapistView the latest from the world of psychology: from behavioral research to practical guidance on relationships, mental health and addiction. Find help from our directory of therapists, psychologists and counselors.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

Show evidence (2)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q7256412: Psychology Today, magazine
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 96
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/front/feed">
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataPsychology Today
  • copyright lineSussex Publishers, LLC
  • WikidataPsychology Today

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in New York City, United States.

Its Facebook and X accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 29
"name": "Psychology Today"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 2989
© 2026 Sussex Publishers, LLC
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q7256412: Psychology Today
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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

  • Psychology Today: American magazine and media organization · website, media company, magazine · since 1967

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: doesn’t ask AI training crawlers to stay away.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
Psychology Today
Language
English (en-US)
What it tells search engines
Organization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationPsychology Today

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

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Score breakdown

Site Score

88 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

88OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page18 / 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 engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page18 / 30no contact page link · email and phone not both 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 28 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K 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 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 1997.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached. 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 11 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

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Built with AI?

None foundWe found no AI builder traces.

“None found” never means “made by a person”: coding assistants leave no traces.

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Related

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How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#1,307list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#383list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CMS
Drupal
JavaScript library
jQuery
Web server
Varnish

And 12 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

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Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageNot found
  • About pageFound
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECFound
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactNot found

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

Every signal with its source →

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How does it add up?

88OF 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 page18 / 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 engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 11 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

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  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
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