SourceForge

sourceforge.net

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In its own wordsLooks like: Software or appCompare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForgeSourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #246 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #84

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#246list 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#84list of 8 Oct 2026

No framework or CMS shows in the page; it uses CDN, Security, Email, Analytics and more.

Everything else it uses (11)

Around it: CDN, Security, Email, Analytics 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 registered8 Aug 1999, 27 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsPhone on the home pagePartly
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 2382Masked 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.
    +1 (8••) •••-••66
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  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • 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 pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsPhone on the home pagePartly
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 2382Masked 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.
    +1 (8••) •••-••66
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  • Company detailsName: SourceForge, address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, MatomoNoted

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 registered8 Aug 1999, 27 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: Software or app.

In its own wordsCompare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForgeSourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

Also has signs of: Blog or news site.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q165400: SourceForge, file-hosting service
Exhibit 2 · its own title or description
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge · SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge i
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataSourceForge
  • copyright lineSlashdot Media
  • WikidataSourceForge

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 100
"name": "SourceForge"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 2445
© 2026 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q165400: SourceForge
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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

  • SourceForge: web-based source code repository · file-hosting service, forge, 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.

Its summary for AI assistantsSourceForge is a complete software review and comparison platform. SourceForge provides a B2B software review and comparison platform, where B2B software buyers can compare business software, SaaS, and services across thousands of B2B software and services categories. SourceForge also offers an open source software directory. Together, the SourceForge business software comparison platform and…Read it in full

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
SourceForge
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
Organization, WebSite

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationSourceForgeSan Diego, US

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 27 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K 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 1999; first archived in 2000.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  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 10 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

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 10 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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