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Tom's Hardware

tomshardware.com

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96OF 100
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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteTom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC EnthusiastTom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withTailwind CSS, Material UI, Varnish20 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain registered 29 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1997. 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 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #3,245 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #995

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#3,245list 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#995list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS and Material UI and 1 more.

  • Alpine.jsJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 3725
    85 attributes starting with x-data
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  • Tailwind CSSCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 2416
    /*! tailwindcss v4.3.0 | MIT License | https://tailwindcs…
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  • Material UICSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 10168
    …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 (16)

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 registered11 Sept 1997, 29 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 HardwarePartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: 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 registered11 Sept 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 wordsTom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC EnthusiastTom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 532
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds.xml">
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 4658
<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/premium-feature">Exclusive Features</a>
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 4674
<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news-analysis">Deep Analysis</a>
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 8624
<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/author/jake-roach">Jake Roach Senior Analyst, CPUs Running on coffee filters and isopropyl alcohol</a>
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataTom's Hardware
  • copyright lineFuture US, Inc
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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 85
"name": "Tom's Hardware"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 10126
© Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
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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

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The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: asks Bytespider, AI2Bot, YouBot, Omgili and 4 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 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 Hardware
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebPage, WebSite, Organization, SiteNavigationElement, ItemList

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationTom's Hardware

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

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 29 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 1997; first archived in 1998.

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

In the web archive: captured in 29 of 29 years · see the first capture

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  26. 2023: captured
  27. 2024: captured
  28. 2025: captured
  29. 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

926 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

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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 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#3,245list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#995list 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
CSS framework
Tailwind CSS, Material UI
Web server
Varnish

And 16 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.

Every signal with its source →

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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 →

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

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  • 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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