serebii.net

Scanned 19 Oct 2026Fresh927 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteSerebii.net - Where Legends Come To LifeContains up-to-date news, databases and information about all Pokémon Games, TCG sets and the TV show.

serebii.net looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2000. It uses Cloudflare, Google Analytics and YouTube; 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.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #7,455 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #26,955

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#7,455	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 5,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#26,955	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

No framework or CMS shows in the page; it uses CDN, Analytics, SEO, Video.

Everything else it uses (4)

Around it: CDN, Analytics, SEO, Video.

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4cbcca22e2276a2-SEA
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Evidence · page source, line 32
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<script src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-128947957-1">
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Evidence · DNS record
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serebii.net TXT google-site-verification=QKUio9Cvw2k_Jqm_a_ZOA3CsMVSelOC74xTyB9KnmG8
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YouTubeVideoShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 995
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…t="344" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HjPNQRi4YrY" frameborder="0" allowfulls…
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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 registered5 Sept 2000, 26 years agoNoted
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Contact detailsEmail on the home pagePartly
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 133Masked 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.
<a href="mailto:w•••@serebii.net">Contact</a>
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Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
Refund or returns policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
Contact detailsEmail on the home pagePartly
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 133Masked 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.
<a href="mailto:w•••@serebii.net">Contact</a>
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Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Google AnalyticsNoted

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 registered5 Sept 2000, 26 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings2 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 wordsSerebii.net - Where Legends Come To LifeContains up-to-date news, databases and information about all Pokémon Games, TCG sets and the TV show.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · its own title or description

Serebii.net - Where Legends Come To Life · Contains up-to-date news, databases and information about all Pokémon Games, TCG sets and the TV show.

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 691

<a href="/news/2026/18-October-2026.shtml">Sunday: Pokémon TCG Pocket - Wonder Pick Event + Pokémon Café ReMix + Pokémon Regional Championships</a>

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Who is behind it

WikidataSerebii

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

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q65087603: Serebii

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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

Serebii: video game website dedicated to Pokémon · video game news website · since 1999

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: Not given
What it tells search engines: None

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.

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Score breakdown

Site Score

75 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page10 / 30

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page10 / 30no contact page link · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 26 years ago

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · no protective settings

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · doesn’t tell 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 2000; first archived in 2001.

5 Sept 2000Domain registeredRDAP
2 Feb 2001First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
19 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 26 of 26 years · see the first capture

2001: captured
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2025: captured
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

927 checks on 19 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 serebii.net

What is serebii.net?

serebii.net describes itself: “Contains up-to-date news, databases and information about all Pokémon Games, TCG sets and the TV show.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is serebii.net?

Its domain was registered on 5 Sept 2000, 26 years ago. See the evidence

What is serebii.net built with?

It uses Cloudflare, Google Analytics and YouTube; we found 4 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is serebii.net?

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

Was serebii.net 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 serebii.net?

Wikidata names Serebii. 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 19 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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