screwfix.com

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In its own wordsLooks like: Online shopScrewfix | The UK's Leading Retailer of Trade Tools & Hardware | ScrewfixScrewfix: Thousands of products at trade prices | FREE delivery available 7 days a week | FREE click & collect in as little as a minute | Hundreds of stores

screwfix.com looks like an online shop, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1997. It is built with Next.js and Java; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #11,373 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #14,248

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#11,373list 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#14,248list of 8 Oct 2026

Built with Next.js and Java.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 41
    <script src="/_next/static/chunks/polyfills-42372ed130431b0a.js">
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    Evidence · response header
    set-cookie: JSESSIONID=…
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Everything else it uses (16)

Around it: CDN, Security, 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 registered21 Jul 1997, 29 years agoNoted
  • 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 policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
  • 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 registered21 Jul 1997, 29 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings5 of 6 in placeFound
  • 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: Online shop.

In its own wordsScrewfix | The UK's Leading Retailer of Trade Tools & Hardware | ScrewfixScrewfix: Thousands of products at trade prices | FREE delivery available 7 days a week | FREE click & collect in as little as a minute | Hundreds of stores

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q7439115: Screwfix, hardware store chain
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 41
<a href="/basket">No items in basketCheckout</a>
Exhibit 3 · visible text
…S with Sprint THIS WEEK ' S TOP OFFERS. SHOP NOW Pause THIS WEEK ' S TOP OFFERS Shop Now…
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Who is behind it

  • copyright lineScrewfix Direct Ltd
  • WikidataScrewfix

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Part of Kingfisher plc; based in Yeovil, United Kingdom.

Its Instagram, Facebook and X accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 55
© Copyright Screwfix Direct Ltd 2026
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q7439115: Screwfix
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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

  • Screwfix: UK retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products · hardware store chain · since 1979

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
Not given
Language
English (en-GB)
What it tells search engines
WebSite

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

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

How we test it · Every builder we know · How to tell if a site was built with AI

Score breakdown

Site Score

96 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

96OF 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 protections15 / 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 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 29 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 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; first archived in 1999.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
  4. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 28 of 28 years · see the first capture

  1. 1999: captured
  2. 2000: captured
  3. 2001: captured
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  5. 2003: captured
  6. 2004: captured
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  14. 2012: captured
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  20. 2018: captured
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  22. 2020: captured
  23. 2021: captured
  24. 2022: captured
  25. 2023: captured
  26. 2024: captured
  27. 2025: captured
  28. 2026: captured
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

930 checks on 26 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 screwfix.com

What is screwfix.com?

screwfix.com describes itself: “Screwfix: Thousands of products at trade prices | FREE delivery available 7 days a week | FREE click & collect in as little as a minute | Hundreds of stores” It looks like an online shop. See the evidence

How old is screwfix.com?

Its domain was registered on 21 Jul 1997, 29 years ago. See the evidence

What is screwfix.com built with?

It is built with Next.js and Java; we found 18 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is screwfix.com?

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

Was screwfix.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 screwfix.com?

Screwfix Direct Ltd, named by its copyright line and Wikidata. See the evidence

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 26 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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