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SkyscraperCity Forum

skyscrapercity.com

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In its own wordsLooks like: Forum or communitySkyscraperCity ForumA truly global community dedicated to skyscrapers, cities, urban development, and the metropolitan environment. Join us to share news, views and fun about...
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withXenForo, Envoy, Varnish15 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain registered 24 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

SkyscraperCity Forum (skyscrapercity.com) looks like a forum or community, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2002. It is built with XenForo, Envoy and Varnish; 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: #13,814 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #9,194

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#13,814list 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#9,194list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with XenForo, lazysizes and Envoy and 2 more.

Everything else it uses (10)

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

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.

  • Domain registered12 Sept 2002, 24 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 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
  • 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 registered12 Sept 2002, 24 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: Forum or community.

In its own wordsSkyscraperCity ForumA truly global community dedicated to skyscrapers, cities, urban development, and the metropolitan environment. Join us to share news, views and fun about...

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · technology found
XenForo (CMS)
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q740593: SkyscraperCity, Internet forum
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
SkyscraperCity Forum · SkyscraperCity Forum · A truly global community dedicated to skyscrapers, cities, urban development, and the metropolitan environment. Jo
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Who is behind it

  • copyright lineXenForo Ltd
  • WikidataSkyscraperCity

Wikidata: Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1493
© 2010-2019 XenForo Ltd.
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q740593: SkyscraperCity
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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

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.

AI use

  • AI training: asks FacebookBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, Bytespider and 14 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, meta-webindexer, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and 1 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 1
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 4
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 23
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 24
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 25
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 28
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 29
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 30
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 31
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 32
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 37
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 42
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 43
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 49
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 70
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 26
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: meta-webindexer · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 36
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot · 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
SkyscraperCity Forum
Language
English (en-US)
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

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Score breakdown

Site Score

94 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

94OF 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 protections13 / 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 24 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 · doesn’t insist on 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 2002; first archived in 2002.

  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 25 of 25 years · see the first capture

  1. 2002: captured
  2. 2003: captured
  3. 2004: captured
  4. 2005: captured
  5. 2006: captured
  6. 2007: captured
  7. 2008: captured
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  10. 2011: captured
  11. 2012: captured
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  17. 2018: captured
  18. 2019: captured
  19. 2020: captured
  20. 2021: captured
  21. 2022: captured
  22. 2023: captured
  23. 2024: captured
  24. 2025: captured
  25. 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

929 checks on 27 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#13,814list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#9,194list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CMS
XenForo
JavaScript library
lazysizes
Web server
Envoy, Varnish
Hosting
Google Cloud

And 10 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Tag manager), 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 detailsNot found
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • First certificateNoted
  • 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 has it changed? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

94OF 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
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 engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Questions about skyscrapercity.com

What is skyscrapercity.com?

SkyscraperCity Forum describes itself: “A truly global community dedicated to skyscrapers, cities, urban development, and the metropolitan environment. Join us to share news, views and fun about...” It looks like a forum or community. See the evidence

How old is skyscrapercity.com?

Its domain was registered on 12 Sept 2002, 24 years ago. See the evidence

What is skyscrapercity.com built with?

It is built with XenForo, Envoy and Varnish; we found 15 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is skyscrapercity.com?

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

Was skyscrapercity.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 skyscrapercity.com?

Its copyright line names XenForo Ltd. See the evidence

More sites like this: forum or community

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 27 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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