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DER SPIEGEL

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89OF 100
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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteDER SPIEGEL | Online-NachrichtenDeutschlands führende Nachrichtenseite. Alles Wichtige aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport, Kultur, Wissenschaft, Technik und mehr.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withGoogle Cloud, Alpine.js14 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain age unknownBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

DER SPIEGEL (spiegel.de) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 1996. It is built with Google Cloud and Alpine.js; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #1,966 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #529

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#1,966list 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#529list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Alpine.js and Google Cloud.

  • Alpine.jsJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 422
    95 attributes starting with x-data
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  • Google CloudHostingShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 google
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Everything else it uses (12)

Around it: CDN, Email, Advertising, 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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 pageFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: DER SPIEGELPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: CriteoNoted

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 (26 Jul 2021)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
  • First seen online23 Dec 1996, 29 years agoNotedInternet Archive
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings3 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 wordsDER SPIEGEL | Online-NachrichtenDeutschlands führende Nachrichtenseite. Alles Wichtige aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport, Kultur, Wissenschaft, Technik und mehr.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q131478: Der Spiegel, magazine
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 65
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/index.rss">
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
DER SPIEGEL | Online-Nachrichten · Deutschlands führende Nachrichtenseite. Alles Wichtige aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport, Kultur, Wissenschaft, Technik und mehr
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 12850
<a href="https://www.spiegel.de/newsletter">Newsletter</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataDER SPIEGEL
  • WikidataDer Spiegel

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in Hamburg, Germany; founded by Rudolf Augstein.

Its Facebook and Instagram accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 35
"name": "DER SPIEGEL"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q131478: Der Spiegel
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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

  • Der Spiegel: German weekly news magazine based in Hamburg · magazine · since 1947
  • Der Spiegel: German news website · online newspaper, newspaper · since 1994

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 Claude-Web, GPTBot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot and 18 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User and 2 more to stay away.
Show evidence (28)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 77
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 79
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 81
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 85
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 87
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 91
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 95
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 97
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 99
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 103
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 105
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 109
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 119
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 121
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 223
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 227
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 229
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 237
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 245
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 247
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 249
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 15
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 51
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 63
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 101
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 125
User-agent: iaskspider · 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
DER SPIEGEL
Language
German (de)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, Organization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationDER SPIEGEL

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

89 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

89OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 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 page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
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

First archived in 1996.

  1. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 31 of 31 years · see the first capture

  1. 1996: captured
  2. 1997: captured
  3. 1998: captured
  4. 1999: captured
  5. 2000: captured
  6. 2001: captured
  7. 2002: captured
  8. 2003: captured
  9. 2004: captured
  10. 2005: captured
  11. 2006: captured
  12. 2007: captured
  13. 2008: captured
  14. 2009: captured
  15. 2010: captured
  16. 2011: captured
  17. 2012: captured
  18. 2013: captured
  19. 2014: captured
  20. 2015: captured
  21. 2016: captured
  22. 2017: captured
  23. 2018: captured
  24. 2019: captured
  25. 2020: captured
  26. 2021: captured
  27. 2022: captured
  28. 2023: captured
  29. 2024: captured
  30. 2025: captured
  31. 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

928 checks on 12 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

Quick look

Built with AI?

None foundWe found no AI builder traces.

“None found” never means “made by a person”: coding assistants leave no traces.

All the evidence →

Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#1,966list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#529list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

JavaScript library
Alpine.js
Hosting
Google Cloud

And 12 more around it (CDN, Email, Advertising, Marketing), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageFound
  • About pageNot found
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyFound
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredCouldn’t check
  • First seen onlineNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • 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 has it changed? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

89OF 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 page22 / 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 →

Related

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 12 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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