The Gateway Pundit

thegatewaypundit.com

Q: What is thegatewaypundit.com?

The Gateway Pundit describes itself: “Conservative news and commentary covering breaking politics, elections, free speech, culture, investigative journalism, and current events” It looks like a blog or news site.

Q: How old is thegatewaypundit.com?

Its domain was registered on 27 Jan 2011, 15 years ago.

Q: How popular is thegatewaypundit.com?

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

Q: Was thegatewaypundit.com 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.

Q: Who is behind thegatewaypundit.com?

The Gateway Pundit, named by its structured data, its copyright line and Wikidata.

Scanned 26 Oct 2026Fresh929 checks

How it adds up →

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteThe Gateway Pundit • Where Hope Finally Made A Comeback • Conservative news and commentary covering breaking politics, elections, free speech, culture, investigative journalism, and current eventsConservative news and commentary covering breaking politics, elections, free speech, culture, investigative journalism, and current events

The Gateway Pundit (thegatewaypundit.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2011. It is built with WordPress, GeneratePress 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.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #12,911 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #7,805

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#12,911	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	#7,805	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with WordPress, GeneratePress and jQuery and 1 more.

WordPressCMSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 131
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-rss-reader/public/css/style.min.css?ver=5.5">
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Evidence · page source, line 151
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…" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/themes/generatepress/assets/css/main.min.css?ver=3.6.1" media…
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Evidence · page source, line 179
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<script src="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1">
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Evidence · page source, line 180
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<script src="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=3.4.1">
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Everything else it uses (13)

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

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Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a50bad18db8af796-CDG
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Evidence · DNS record
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thegatewaypundit.com NS deb.ns.cloudflare.com.
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Evidence · DNS record
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_dmarc.thegatewaypundit.com TXT v=DMARC1; p=none; sp=none; pct=100; rua=mailto:116c5a2cc8b848a08b96fe6308e22a89@dmarc-reports.cloudflare.net;
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Evidence · page source, line 78
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<script src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-EFE91RJVSQ">
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Evidence · page source, line 1005
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…Element(r);t.async=1;t.src="https://www.clarity.ms/tag/"+i; y=l.getElementsByTagName(r…
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Evidence · page source, line 2368
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…f,q,k,void 0,c]),"object"==typeof _paq&&_paq.push(["trackEvent", f,q,k])}function t(b,m){…
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Evidence · page source, line 186
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<script src="https://cdn.onesignal.com/sdks/web/v16/OneSignalSDK.page.js" defer="">
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Evidence · page source, line 956
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<meta name="google-site-verification" content="CEcCN3SN30-41DfuqqkWl9JrfLzRaIH1S__HmOR_Z7Q">
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Evidence · page source, line 2368
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…("cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary");m("complianz_policy_id");m("complianz_consent_status…
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Evidence · page source, line 2254
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<script src="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/plugins/gtranslate/js/base.js?ver=5.0.1">
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Evidence · page source, line 1071
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<a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_8UPFaoOrqsDpHp2AHeIIqNls2…
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Evidence · page source, line 130

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Poppins:100,100italic,200,200italic,300,300italic,regular,italic,500,500italic,600,600italic,700,700italic,800,800italic,900,900italic&display=swap">

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Evidence · page source, line 150

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/themes/generatepress_child/fontawesome/css/all.min.css?ver=7.0.1">

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 registered27 Jan 2011, 15 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; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
TermsLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
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; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
About pageLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
Privacy policyLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
TermsLinked from the home page; it turned our scanner away (403), so we couldn’t open itFound
Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Company detailsName: The Gateway PunditPartly
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers3 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, 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 registered27 Jan 2011, 15 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings3 of 6 in placePartly
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 wordsThe Gateway Pundit • Where Hope Finally Made A Comeback • Conservative news and commentary covering breaking politics, elections, free speech, culture, investigative journalism, and current eventsConservative news and commentary covering breaking politics, elections, free speech, culture, investigative journalism, and current events

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 85

<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/feed/">

Exhibit 2 · its own title or description

The Gateway Pundit • Where Hope Finally Made A Comeback • Conservative news and commentary covering breaking politics, elections, free speech, culture, investig

Exhibit 3 · page source, line 1063

<a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/newsletter-subscriptions/">Subscribe to our newsletter</a>

Exhibit 4 · page source, line 1107

<a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/author/cristina/">Cristina Laila</a>

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Who is behind it

structured dataThe Gateway Pundit
copyright lineThe Gateway Pundit
WikidataThe Gateway Pundit

Confirmed by 3 independent sources: structured data, copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in United States.

Its X account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 227

"name": "The Gateway Pundit"

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 2083

© 2026 The Gateway Pundit

Exhibit 3 · Wikidata

Q30589935: The Gateway Pundit

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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 Gateway Pundit: American far-right fake news website · political blog, fake news website · since 2004

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 Amazonbot, CCBot, FacebookBot, Bytespider and 2 more to stay away.
AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 83

User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 86

User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 89

User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 176

User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 179

User-agent: TikTokSpider · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 185

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · 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 Gateway Pundit
Language: English (en-US)
What it tells search engines: WebSite, Organization, ImageObject, WebPage

Named in its structured data

OrganizationThe Gateway Pundit

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

94 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; 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 protections13 / 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 15 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 2011; first archived in 2011.

27 Jan 2011Domain registeredRDAP
6 Jun 2011First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
26 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 16 of 16 years · see the first capture

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

929 checks on 26 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

Questions about thegatewaypundit.com

What is thegatewaypundit.com?

The Gateway Pundit describes itself: “Conservative news and commentary covering breaking politics, elections, free speech, culture, investigative journalism, and current events” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is thegatewaypundit.com?

Its domain was registered on 27 Jan 2011, 15 years ago. See the evidence

What is thegatewaypundit.com built with?

It is built with WordPress, GeneratePress and jQuery; we found 17 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is thegatewaypundit.com?

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

Was thegatewaypundit.com 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 thegatewaypundit.com?

The Gateway Pundit, named by its structured data, 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 26 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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