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In its own wordsRTBF Actus - La référence de l'actualité belge et internationale - Accueil - RTBF ActusToute l'actualité belge et internationale sur RTBF.be : retrouvez toutes les news info, sport, culture, musique et bien plus encore et accédez aux chaînes TV, radio et marques de la RTBF.
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withNext.js, lazysizes16 technologies foundTrust signals2 of 7 foundDomain registered 30 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

RTBF (rtbf.be) is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1996. It is built with Next.js and lazysizes; 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: #6,069 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #2,790

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#6,069list 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#2,790list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Next.js and lazysizes.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="https://static-oaos.rtbf.be/17132590453/_next/static/chunks/87c73c54-e11922cda838f8cc.js">
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  • lazysizesJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="https://static-oaos.rtbf.be/js/lazysizes/lazysizes.min.js">
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Everything else it uses (14)

Around it: CDN, Email, Analytics, Advertising and more.

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

2 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered22 Feb 1996, 30 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNot linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold itPartly
  • 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 pageFound
  • About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNot linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold itPartly
  • 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 detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, Google AdsNoted

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 registered22 Feb 1996, 30 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.dns.be)
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settingsNone in placeNot found
  • 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

It calls itself “RTBF Actus - La référence de l'actualité belge et internationale - Accueil - RTBF Actus”.

In its own wordsRTBF Actus - La référence de l'actualité belge et internationale - Accueil - RTBF ActusToute l'actualité belge et internationale sur RTBF.be : retrouvez toutes les news info, sport, culture, musique et bien plus encore et accédez aux chaînes TV, radio et marques de la RTBF.

The page doesn’t show enough to say what kind of site it is (a shop, a blog, an app…).

Who is behind it

  • copyright lineRTBF
  • WikidataRTBF

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by French Community; based in Brussels metropolitan area, Belgium; founded by French Community.

Its LinkedIn account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 39
Copyright © 2026 RTBF
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q1190356: RTBF
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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

  • RTBF: Belgium's French-language public broadcaster · information system, broadcast network, public broadcaster · since 1977
  • RTBF Actus: Belgian news site · online newspaper

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of these items. 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, Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, anthropic-ai and 10 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, DuckAssistBot, meta-externalfetcher, OAI-SearchBot and 1 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 16
User-Agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 19
User-Agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 22
User-Agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 25
User-Agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 28
User-Agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 31
User-Agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 37
User-Agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 40
User-Agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 43
User-Agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 46
User-Agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 52
User-Agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 55
User-Agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 58
User-Agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 61
User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 34
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 49
User-Agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 64
User-Agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 67
User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 70
User-Agent: PerplexityBot · 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
RTBF
Language
French (fr)
What it tells search engines
VideoObject

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

82 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

82OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 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 page16 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy: not linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold it · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 30 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 1996; first archived in 1997.

  1. Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.dns.be)
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. This scanCheckAnySite
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 16 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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How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#6,069list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#2,790list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Framework
Next.js
JavaScript library
lazysizes

And 14 more around it (CDN, Email, Analytics, Advertising), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

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

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersNot found
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesFound
  • Security contactFound

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?

82OF 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 page16 / 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 →

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Questions about rtbf.be

What is rtbf.be?

RTBF describes itself: “Toute l'actualité belge et internationale sur RTBF.be : retrouvez toutes les news info, sport, culture, musique et bien plus encore et accédez aux chaînes TV, radio et marques de la RTBF.” See the evidence

How old is rtbf.be?

Its domain was registered on 22 Feb 1996, 30 years ago. See the evidence

What is rtbf.be built with?

It is built with Next.js and lazysizes; we found 16 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is rtbf.be?

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

Was rtbf.be 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 rtbf.be?

RTBF, named by its copyright line and Wikidata. See the evidence

More sites near it in popularity

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 16 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 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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