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スポニチ Sponichi Annex

sponichi.co.jp

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteスポニチ Sponichi Annexスポーツニュース、芸能ニュースはお任せ! スポーツ、芸能、レース、社会問題、レジャーなどに関する情報が充実。正確な情報、豊富な特ダネ、スクープをお届けします。スポニチ（スポーツニッポン新聞社）の公式サイトです。
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withVarnish, jQuery19 technologies foundTrust signals1 of 7 foundDomain registered 28 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

スポニチ Sponichi Annex (sponichi.co.jp) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1998. It is built with Varnish and jQuery; 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: #6,825 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #13,427

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#6,825list 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#13,427list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with jQuery, jQuery Migrate and jQuery UI and 2 more.

  • jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 59
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js">
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  • jQuery MigrateJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 60
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-3.4.1.min.js">
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  • jQuery UIJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 3258
    <script src="/js/jquery-ui.min.js">
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  • SwiperJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 3261
    <script src="/js/swiper/swiper.jquery.min.js">
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  • VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 spo-router-4 (Varnish/7.6), 1.1 varnish
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Everything else it uses (14)

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

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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

1 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • Domain registered9 Oct 1998, 28 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsNot linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold itPartly
  • 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 pageFound
  • TermsNot linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold itPartly
  • 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
  • Trackers5 analytics and advertising tools: Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, Criteo, Amazon Ads, Prebid.jsNoted

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 registered9 Oct 1998, 28 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.jprs.jp)
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settingsNone in placeNot found
  • 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: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsスポニチ Sponichi Annexスポーツニュース、芸能ニュースはお任せ! スポーツ、芸能、レース、社会問題、レジャーなどに関する情報が充実。正確な情報、豊富な特ダネ、スクープをお届けします。スポニチ（スポーツニッポン新聞社）の公式サイトです。

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q7579766: Sports Nippon, daily newspaper
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Who is behind it

  • copyright lineSPORTS NIPPON NEWSPAPERS
  • WikidataSports Nippon

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in Etchūjima, Japan.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 3232
© SPORTS NIPPON NEWSPAPERS. All Right Reserved.
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q7579766: Sports Nippon
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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

  • Sports Nippon: Japanese daily sports newspaper · daily newspaper, sports newspaper · since 1949

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: 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
スポニチ Sponichi Annex
Language
Japanese (ja)
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

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Score breakdown

Site Score

73 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

73OF 100
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 protections11 / 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 · terms: not linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold it · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 28 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on 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 1998; first archived in 1999.

  1. Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.jprs.jp)
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. 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
  4. 2002: captured
  5. 2003: captured
  6. 2004: captured
  7. 2005: captured
  8. 2006: captured
  9. 2007: captured
  10. 2008: captured
  11. 2009: captured
  12. 2010: captured
  13. 2011: captured
  14. 2012: captured
  15. 2013: captured
  16. 2014: captured
  17. 2015: captured
  18. 2016: captured
  19. 2017: captured
  20. 2018: captured
  21. 2019: captured
  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
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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

925 checks on 17 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#6,825list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#13,427list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

JavaScript library
jQuery, jQuery Migrate, jQuery UI, Swiper
Web server
Varnish

And 14 more around it (CDN, Email, Tag manager, Advertising), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

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Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageNot found
  • About pageNot found
  • Privacy policyFound
  • TermsPartly
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsNot found
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersNot found
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactNot found

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

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How does it add up?

73OF 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 page10 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections11 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Questions about sponichi.co.jp

What is sponichi.co.jp?

スポニチ Sponichi Annex describes itself: “スポーツニュース、芸能ニュースはお任せ! スポーツ、芸能、レース、社会問題、レジャーなどに関する情報が充実。正確な情報、豊富な特ダネ、スクープをお届けします。スポニチ（スポーツニッポン新聞社）の公式サイトです。” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is sponichi.co.jp?

Its domain was registered on 9 Oct 1998, 28 years ago. See the evidence

What is sponichi.co.jp built with?

It is built with Varnish and jQuery; we found 19 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is sponichi.co.jp?

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

Was sponichi.co.jp 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 sponichi.co.jp?

SPORTS NIPPON NEWSPAPERS, named by its copyright line and Wikidata. 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 17 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

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  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
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