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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteRTL.de: Nachrichten, die Deutschland bewegen.Alles, was ihr braucht, auf einen Blick: Nachrichten, TV- und Streaming-Highlights, Star-News, RTL-Sportereignisse sowie Lifestyle- und Ratgeber-Informationen.
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withNext.js, Express20 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain age unknownBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

rtl.de looks like a blog or news site and is ranked in the top 10,000 sites. It is built with Next.js and Express; 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: #4,300 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #2,807

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#4,300list 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#2,807list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Next.js and Express.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="https://cdn.rtl.de/2.229.2/_next/static/chunks/4bd1b696-bd31d5c6325265d6.js">
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  • ExpressFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-powered-by: Express
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Everything else it uses (18)

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

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

4 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 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 pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • 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 detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: RTL NEWS GmbHPartly
  • 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 (4 Nov 2024)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings5 of 6 in placeFound
  • 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 wordsRTL.de: Nachrichten, die Deutschland bewegen.Alles, was ihr braucht, auf einen Blick: Nachrichten, TV- und Streaming-Highlights, Star-News, RTL-Sportereignisse sowie Lifestyle- und Ratgeber-Informationen.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · its own title or description
RTL.de: Nachrichten, die Deutschland bewegen. · rtl.de · Alles, was ihr braucht, auf einen Blick: Nachrichten, TV- und Streaming-Highlights, Star-News, RTL-Spor
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 82
<a href="/news/">Nachrichten</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataRTL NEWS GmbH
  • copyright lineRTL interactive GmbH
  • WikidataRTL

Confirmed by 3 independent sources: structured data, copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by RTL Group; based in Cologne, Germany.

Its Facebook account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1
"name": "RTL NEWS GmbH"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 85
© 2026 RTL interactive GmbH
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q155702: RTL
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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

  • RTL: German television station based in Cologne · television station, generalist television channel · since 1984
  • RTL News: German news production company · online newspaper, website, news website

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 GPTBot, Google-Extended and CCBot to stay away.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 12
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 19
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 26
User-agent: CCBot · 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
rtl.de
Language
German (de)
What it tells search engines
WebSite, WebPage, Organization, NewsMediaOrganization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationRTL.de

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

95 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

95OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 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 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

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

929 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

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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#4,300list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#2,807list 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, Express

And 18 more around it (CDN, Email, Tag manager, Marketing), 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 detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredCouldn’t check
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersFound
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • 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 →

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How does it add up?

95OF 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 protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Questions about rtl.de

What is rtl.de?

rtl.de describes itself: “Alles, was ihr braucht, auf einen Blick: Nachrichten, TV- und Streaming-Highlights, Star-News, RTL-Sportereignisse sowie Lifestyle- und Ratgeber-Informationen.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

What is rtl.de built with?

It is built with Next.js and Express; we found 20 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is rtl.de?

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

Was rtl.de 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 rtl.de?

RTL NEWS GmbH, named by its structured data, its copyright line 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 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

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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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