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USA TODAY

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96OF 100
How it adds up →
In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteUSA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News TodayUSA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withCloudflare, Fastly, NS1Around the site; no CMS or framework visibleTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain registered 32 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

USA TODAY (usatoday.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1994. It uses Cloudflare, Fastly and NS1; 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: #603 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #213

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#603list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#213list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

No framework or CMS shows in the page; it uses CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics and more.

Everything else it uses (24)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics 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 Apr 1994, 32 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 page, and the page opensFound
  • About pageLinked from the home pageFound
  • 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: USA TODAYPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers4 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, Taboola, Amazon AdsNoted

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 Apr 1994, 32 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings6 of 6 in placeFound
  • 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 wordsUSA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News TodayUSA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q39681: USA Today, daily newspaper
Exhibit 2 · its own title or description
USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today · USA TODAY · USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, an
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 50
<a href="/news/nation/">U.S.</a>
Exhibit 4 · visible text
…USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today 🏈 Draft. Trade. Win. Explore Mar…
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataUSA TODAY
  • WikidataUSA Today

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by USA Today Co.; based in Tysons, United States; founded by Al Neuharth.

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

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 193
"name": "USA TODAY"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q39681: USA Today
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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

  • USA Today: American national daily newspaper · website, daily newspaper · since 1982

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 anthropic-ai, Amazonbot, Claude-Web, cohere-ai and 30 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot and 13 more to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 3
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 6
User-agent: AmazonBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 12
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 27
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 30
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 55
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 68
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 71
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 87
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 96
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 108
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 111
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 139
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 142
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 161
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 170
User-agent: AI2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 176
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 200
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 230
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 239
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 242
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 284
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 305
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 311
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 314
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 359
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 414
User-agent: Cotoyogi · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 426
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 453
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 468
User-agent: TikTokSpider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 480
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 483
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 33 · robots.txt, line 507
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor · Disallow: /
Exhibit 34 · robots.txt, line 648
User-agent: BrightBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 35 · robots.txt, line 18
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 36 · robots.txt, line 21
User-agent: Amzn-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 37 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 38 · robots.txt, line 120
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 39 · robots.txt, line 148
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 40 · robots.txt, line 164
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 41 · robots.txt, line 167
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 42 · robots.txt, line 212
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 43 · robots.txt, line 218
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 44 · robots.txt, line 227
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 · Disallow: /
Exhibit 45 · robots.txt, line 263
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 46 · robots.txt, line 326
User-agent: YandexAdditional · Disallow: /
Exhibit 47 · robots.txt, line 329
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 48 · robots.txt, line 441
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 49 · robots.txt, line 525
User-agent: meta-webindexer · Disallow: /
Exhibit 50 · robots.txt, line 555
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 51 · robots.txt, line 912
User-agent: ExaBot · Disallow: /
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Site name
USA TODAY
Language
English (en-US)
What it tells search engines
Organization, WebSite, WebPage

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationUSA TODAY

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 32 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 1994; 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
  4. 1999: captured
  5. 2000: captured
  6. 2001: captured
  7. 2002: captured
  8. 2003: captured
  9. 2004: captured
  10. 2005: captured
  11. 2006: captured
  12. 2007: captured
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  14. 2009: captured
  15. 2010: captured
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  20. 2015: captured
  21. 2016: captured
  22. 2017: captured
  23. 2018: captured
  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

926 checks on 10 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.

All the evidence →

Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#603list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#213list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CDN
Cloudflare, Fastly
DNS
NS1
Email
Microsoft 365, SendGrid, Valimail
Analytics
Google Analytics
Advertising
Google Ad Manager, Taboola, Amazon Ads
Marketing
Marketo
SEO
Google Search Console
Cookie consent
OneTrust
Business tools
Meta Business, Pinterest Business, Apple Business, DocuSign, Zoom, Adobe, OpenAI (business account), Smartsheet, Canva, TollBit, Qualtrics
Each with its evidence →

Related

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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 headersFound
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactFound

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?

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 10 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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