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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteThe Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withNext.js, Varnish, Google Cloud19 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain registered 23 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

The Conversation (theconversation.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 2003. It is built with Next.js, Varnish and Google Cloud; 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: #1,198 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #343

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#1,198list 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#343list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Next.js, Lucide and Varnish and 1 more.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="https://cdn.theconversation.com/_next/static/chunks/2pse4tb2jrjme.js">
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  • LucideJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    26 class names starting with lucide
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  • VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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  • Google CloudHostingShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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Everything else it uses (15)

Around it: CDN, Email, Marketing, SEO 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.

  • Domain registered29 May 2003, 23 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
  • TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

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 registered29 May 2003, 23 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings2 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 Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · its own title or description
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers. · The Conversation · Curated by professional editors, The
Exhibit 2 · visible text
…from leading academics and researchers. Top stories French student protests: comparisons wi…
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Who is behind it

  • copyright lineThe Conversation
  • WikidataThe Conversation

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in Waltham, Australia; founded by Andrew Jaspan.

Its Facebook, X and LinkedIn accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1
Copyright © 2010–2026, The Conversation
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q7727516: The Conversation
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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 Conversation: news organization that publishes news articles written by academics · website, communications media, dot-com company · since 2010

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 AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai and 30 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot and 13 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 50
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 52
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 58
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 64
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 68
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 78
User-agent: Brightbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 81
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 82
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 84
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 90
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 91
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 95
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 96
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 97
User-agent: Cotoyogi · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 103
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 105
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 112
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 113
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 120
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 129
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 135
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 136
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 138
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 145
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 153
User-agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 166
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 167
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 171
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 186
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 198
User-agent: TikTokSpider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 199
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 204
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 33 · robots.txt, line 206
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 34 · robots.txt, line 213
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 35 · robots.txt, line 60
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 36 · robots.txt, line 61
User-agent: Amzn-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 37 · robots.txt, line 86
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 38 · robots.txt, line 88
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 39 · robots.txt, line 89
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 40 · robots.txt, line 107
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 41 · robots.txt, line 110
User-agent: ExaBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 42 · robots.txt, line 119
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 43 · robots.txt, line 133
User-agent: iaskspider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 44 · robots.txt, line 154
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 45 · robots.txt, line 155
User-agent: meta-webindexer · Disallow: /
Exhibit 46 · robots.txt, line 156
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 47 · robots.txt, line 165
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 48 · robots.txt, line 174
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 49 · robots.txt, line 175
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 50 · robots.txt, line 210
User-agent: YandexAdditional · Disallow: /
Exhibit 51 · robots.txt, line 211
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot · Disallow: /
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Site name
The Conversation
Language
Not given
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

How we know

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Score breakdown

Site Score

93 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

93OF 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 engines7 / 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 23 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 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 2003; first archived in 2003.

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

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

  1. 2003: captured
  2. 2004: captured
  3. 2005: captured
  4. 2006: captured
  5. 2007: captured
  6. 2008: captured
  7. 2009: captured
  8. 2010: captured
  9. 2011: captured
  10. 2012: captured
  11. 2013: captured
  12. 2014: captured
  13. 2015: captured
  14. 2016: captured
  15. 2017: captured
  16. 2018: captured
  17. 2019: captured
  18. 2020: captured
  19. 2021: captured
  20. 2022: captured
  21. 2023: captured
  22. 2024: captured
  23. 2025: captured
  24. 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 11 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#1,198list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#343list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Framework
Next.js
JavaScript library
Lucide
Web server
Varnish
Hosting
Google Cloud

And 15 more around it (CDN, Email, Marketing, SEO), 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 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 →

Related

How has it changed? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

93OF 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 protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 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 11 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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