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The Globe and Mail

theglobeandmail.com

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteThe Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & AnalysisThe Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withReact, styled-components16 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain registered 31 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

The Globe and Mail (theglobeandmail.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1995. It is built with React and styled-components; 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: #2,718 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #745

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#2,718list 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#745list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with React and styled-components.

  • ReactFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 769
    <script src="/pf/dist/engine/react.js?d=977&mxId=00000000">
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  • styled-componentsCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    2 attributes starting with data-styled
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Everything else it uses (14)

Around it: CDN, Security, DNS, Email 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 registered18 Sept 1995, 31 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
    Show evidenceHide evidence
    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 775Masked 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.
    "telephone": "+1-4••-•••-••00"
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  • 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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 775Masked 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.
    "telephone": "+1-4••-•••-••00"
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  • Company detailsName: The Globe and MailPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers4 analytics and advertising tools: Comscore, Google Ad Manager, 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 registered18 Sept 1995, 31 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings2 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 Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & AnalysisThe Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q604525: The Globe and Mail, daily newspaper
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis · The Globe and Mail · The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canad
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 929
<a href="/newsletters/?intcmp=footer">Globe Email Newsletters</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataThe Globe and Mail
  • copyright lineThe Globe and Mail Inc
  • WikidataThe Globe and Mail

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

Wikidata: Based in Toronto, Canada; founded by George Brown.

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

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 775
"name": "The Globe and Mail"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 929
© Copyright 2026 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q604525: The Globe and Mail
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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 Globe and Mail: English-language daily newspaper in Canada · newspaper of record, daily newspaper · since 1936

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.

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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 27 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot and 11 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: AI2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 53
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 71
User-agent: Anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 116
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0 · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 119
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 125
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 131
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 149
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 152
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 161
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 164
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 167
User-agent: Cotoyogi · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 182
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 191
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 203
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 227
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 245
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 266
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 272
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 275
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 299
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 332
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 386
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 389
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 407
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 461
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 521
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 539
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 551
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 566
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 62
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 33 · robots.txt, line 65
User-agent: Amzn-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 34 · robots.txt, line 137
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 35 · robots.txt, line 143
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 36 · robots.txt, line 146
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 37 · robots.txt, line 194
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 38 · robots.txt, line 224
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 39 · robots.txt, line 260
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 · Disallow: /
Exhibit 40 · robots.txt, line 338
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 41 · robots.txt, line 344
User-agent: meta-webindexer · Disallow: /
Exhibit 42 · robots.txt, line 347
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 43 · robots.txt, line 380
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 44 · robots.txt, line 425
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 45 · robots.txt, line 428
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 46 · robots.txt, line 563
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot · 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 Globe and Mail
Language
English (en-CA)
What it tells search engines
NewsMediaOrganization, ItemList

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationThe Globe and Mail

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

92 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

92OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 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 engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30no contact page link · email and phone 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 31 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 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 1995; first archived in 1996.

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

927 checks on 13 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.

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Related

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How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#2,718list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#745list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Framework
React
CSS framework
styled-components

And 14 more around it (CDN, Security, DNS, Email), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

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

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • 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.

Every signal with its source →

Related

How has it changed? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

92OF 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
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 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 13 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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