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Tom's Guide

tomsguide.com

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteTom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How ToTom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withTailwind CSS, Material UI, Varnish22 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain registered 26 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

Tom's Guide (tomsguide.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2000. It is built with Tailwind CSS, Material UI and Varnish; 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: #4,691 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #1,680

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#4,691list 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#1,680list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Alpine.js, Lucide and Tailwind CSS and 2 more.

  • Alpine.jsJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 10857
    97 attributes starting with x-data
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  • LucideJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 19874
    8 class names starting with lucide
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  • Tailwind CSSCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 8975
    /*! tailwindcss v4.3.0 | MIT License | https://tailwindcs…
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  • Material UICSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 22641
    …trict";function r(e){for(var t="https://mui.com/production-error/?code="+e,n=1;n<arguments.length;n+=1)t+…
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  • VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
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Everything else it uses (17)

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

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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 registered3 Aug 2000, 26 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
  • 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 pageLinked from the home pageFound
  • About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • TermsLinked from the home pageFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: Tom's GuidePartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Contentsquare, ComscoreNoted

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 registered3 Aug 2000, 26 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 wordsTom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How ToTom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 490
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.tomsguide.com/feeds.xml">
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 11241
<a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/newsletter">Newsletters Newsletter</a>
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 11380
<a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/tag/atandt">AT&T</a>
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 22001
<a href="https://www.tomsguide.com/author/mark-spoonauer">Mark Spoonauer 20 years in technology journalism READ MORE</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataTom's Guide
  • copyright lineFuture US, Inc
  • WikidataTom's Guide

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 92
"name": "Tom's Guide"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 22583
© Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q3530635: Tom's Guide
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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

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 Bytespider, AI2Bot, YouBot, Omgili and 5 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks meta-webindexer to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: ai2bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: youbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 40
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 41
User-agent: diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 43
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 46
User-Agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 49
User-Agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 47
User-Agent: meta-webindexer · 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
Tom's Guide
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, WebSite, Organization, SiteNavigationElement, ItemList

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationTom's Guide

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.

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Score breakdown

Site Score

96 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

96OF 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 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 26 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K 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 2000.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached; we’ll ask it again. Why can this be empty?

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

926 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

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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#4,691list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#1,680list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

JavaScript library
Alpine.js, Lucide
CSS framework
Tailwind CSS, Material UI
Web server
Varnish

And 17 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics), 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 detailsPartly
  • 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 contactCouldn’t check

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

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How does it add up?

96OF 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 engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Questions about tomsguide.com

What is tomsguide.com?

Tom's Guide describes itself: “Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is tomsguide.com?

Its domain was registered on 3 Aug 2000, 26 years ago. See the evidence

What is tomsguide.com built with?

It is built with Tailwind CSS, Material UI and Varnish; we found 22 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is tomsguide.com?

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

Was tomsguide.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 tomsguide.com?

Tom's Guide, named by its structured data and Wikidata. See the evidence

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