The Straits Times

straitstimes.com

Scanned 14 Oct 2026Fresh925 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteThe Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimediaThe Straits Times - Get latest breaking news, business, sports, lifestyle, tech & multimedia and more news in Singapore, Asia & rest of the world at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times (straitstimes.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1997. It is built with Tailwind CSS; 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: #4,037 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #1,333

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#4,037	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 10,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#1,333	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Tailwind CSS.

Tailwind CSSCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · stylesheet /assets/root-Du0qEnTI.css
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…n:column;gap:16px;border-radius:.375rem;--tw-bg-opacity: 1;background-color:rgb(255 255 255 / v…
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Everything else it uses (10)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics and more.

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4a4fc82fa0e00b4-KIX
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Amazon CloudFrontCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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x-amz-cf-id: P9Lm75KN6NWuKz2o7Xj1lyKMMqKyQmbqn1V_6GF8oPLUkKlH8xuKwg==
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Amazon Route 53DNSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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straitstimes.com NS ns-1208.awsdns-23.org.
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Google WorkspaceEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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straitstimes.com MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
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Evidence · page source, line 1
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<script async="" src="//static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat_mab.js">
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Google Ad ManagerAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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<script async="" src="https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js" crossorigin="anonymous">
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Prebid.jsAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 29
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<script src="https://adtag.sphdigital.com/pub/st/prebid.js">
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Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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straitstimes.com TXT google-site-verification=GwQiPCZYUfSzNdgHyEYu8h5A4H_yDdWt6RBZkAqUBeg
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VWOA/B testingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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…ild(t),e&&((new Image).src='https://dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ee.gif?a='+account_id+e))},finished:fun…
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New RelicMonitoringShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 95
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window.NREUM||(NREUM={});NREUM.init={"jserrors":{"en…
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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

3 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

Domain registered18 Aug 1997, 29 years agoNoted
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Contact detailsEmail on the home pageFound
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 95Masked 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:s•••@sph.com.sg?subject=Reach%20Us&body= --%0D%0AYour browser info has automatically been included so that we can place your feedback in context; no personal data will be shared:%0D %0D%0AUser type : y-anoy %0D%0AVisitor ID : -nil- %0D%0ADevice Code : Web %0D%0A">Contact us</a>
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Privacy policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
About pageLinked from the home pageFound
Privacy policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
TermsLinked from the home pageFound
Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
Contact detailsEmail on the home pageFound
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 95Masked 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:s•••@sph.com.sg?subject=Reach%20Us&body= --%0D%0AYour browser info has automatically been included so that we can place your feedback in context; no personal data will be shared:%0D %0D%0AUser type : y-anoy %0D%0AVisitor ID : -nil- %0D%0ADevice Code : Web %0D%0A">Contact us</a>
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Company detailsName: The Straits TimesPartly
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers3 analytics and advertising tools: Chartbeat, Google Ad Manager, 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 registered18 Aug 1997, 29 years agoNoteddomain registry
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 wordsThe Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimediaThe Straits Times - Get latest breaking news, business, sports, lifestyle, tech & multimedia and more news in Singapore, Asia & rest of the world at straitstimes.com.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data

"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q498921: The Straits Times, daily newspaper

Exhibit 3 · its own title or description

The Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimedia · The Straits Times · The Straits Times - Get latest breaking news, business

Exhibit 4 · page source, line 107

<a href="/newsletter-signup">Newsletters</a>

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Who is behind it

structured dataThe Straits Times
copyright lineSPH Media Limited
WikidataThe Straits Times

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1

"name": "The Straits Times"

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 113

. Copyright © 2026 SPH Media Limited. All rights reserved.

Exhibit 3 · Wikidata

Q498921: The Straits Times

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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

The Straits Times: Singapore newspaper · daily newspaper · since 1845

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: asks Google-Extended to stay away.
AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 124

User-agent: Google-Extended · 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: The Straits Times
Language: English (en)
What it tells search engines: NewsMediaOrganization, WebSite

Named in its structured data

News Media OrganizationThe Straits Times

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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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

84 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 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 page16 / 30no contact page link · email and phone given · no privacy policy link · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 29 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 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 1997; first archived in 2003.

18 Aug 1997Domain registeredRDAP
2 Feb 2003First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
14 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 24 of 24 years · see the first capture

2003: captured
2004: captured
2005: captured
2006: captured
2007: captured
2008: captured
2009: captured
2010: captured
2011: captured
2012: captured
2013: captured
2014: captured
2015: captured
2016: captured
2017: captured
2018: captured
2019: captured
2020: captured
2021: captured
2022: captured
2023: captured
2024: captured
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

925 checks on 14 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

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 14 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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