wa.de
No scorethe page couldn’t be read
In WikidataWestfälischer Anzeiger: periodical literature
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wa.de looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 2010. We couldn’t read its page: its robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay away.
This site asks bots like ours not to read its pages, so we didn’t. What public records say is below; the score needs the page.
Popularity
Website Traffic CheckerAmong the top 10K sites.
A popularity band, not a visit count.
Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M
Tranco: #18,588 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #30,963
Each list, with its date
| Source | Says | As of |
|---|---|---|
| TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily. | #18,588 | list of 27 Oct 2026 |
| Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly. | Top 10,000 | Sep 2026 |
| Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0 | #30,963 | list of 28 Oct 2026 |
Technology
Tech Stack CheckerNo framework or CMS shows in the page; it uses Email, Marketing, SEO, Business tools.
Everything else it uses (6)
Around it: Email, Marketing, SEO, Business tools.
Microsoft 365EmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS recordPopular sites using Microsoft 365 Is this wrong? Report itwa.de MX 0 wa-de.mail.protection.outlook.com.
MailjetEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS recordPopular sites using Mailjet Is this wrong? Report it…f.protection.outlook.com include:spf.ippen-media.de include:_spf.salesforce.com include:spf.mailjet.com ip4:188.40.90.120/29 ip4:212.202.239.163/32 ip4:94.79.191.115/32 ip4:195.243.11…
SalesforceMarketingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS recordPopular sites using Salesforce Is this wrong? Report it…XT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.ippen-media.de include:_spf.salesforce.com include:spf.mailjet.com ip4:188.40.90.120/29 ip4:212.202.239.163/32 ip4:94.79.1…
Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS recordPopular sites using Google Search Console Is this wrong? Report itwa.de TXT google-site-verification=57jwGTPHkR4ppvrOXLNPrnWKgj7KZW4B6VITjoIwr2o
Meta BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS recordPopular sites using Meta Business Is this wrong? Report itwa.de TXT facebook-domain-verification=zt9koq864efcoymqde6rjo1sqvniy5
KnowBe4Business toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS recordPopular sites using KnowBe4 Is this wrong? Report itwa.de TXT knowbe4-site-verification=2b9eb0fb1f088e981504f338ca406109
Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.
Trust signals
Website Trust CheckerWe couldn’t read the page; outside records are below.
Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.
- HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
- Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at
On the site
- Contact pageFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- About pageFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- Privacy policyFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- TermsFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- Refund or returns policyFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- Contact detailsFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- Company detailsFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- Payment providersFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- TrackersFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
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 registeredThe registry publishes no registration date, only when the record last changed (19 Feb 2013)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
- First seen online11 Feb 2010, 16 years agoNotedInternet Archive
- HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
- Protective settingsFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
- 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 SummaryLooks like: Blog or news site.
We couldn’t read the page, so there are no words of its own to quote.
From what Wikidata says it is: we couldn’t read the page.
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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Is this wrong? Report itQ1525213: Westfälischer Anzeiger, newspaper
Who is behind it
- WikidataWestfälischer Anzeiger
Wikidata: Owned by Ippen Digital; based in Hamm, Germany.
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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Is this wrong? Report itQ1525213: Westfälischer Anzeiger
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
- Westfälischer Anzeiger: periodical literature · periodical, newspaper, website · since 1850
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.
AI use
- All crawlers: asks every crawler without rules of its own to stay away, AI ones included.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 5
Is this wrong? Report ituser-agent: * · Disallow: /
What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.
- Site name
- Not given
- Language
- Not given
- What it tells search engines
- None
Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.
Built with AI?
AI Website DetectorWe couldn’t read the page, so we couldn’t look for traces.
AI traces: Couldn’t check
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 2,275 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
AI access
AI Crawler CheckerIt keeps 44 of 51 AI crawlers out, for training and for answers.
We couldn’t read its page: its robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay away.
We couldn’t check enough of the site to score its AI readiness: the score needs its home page.
What to fix
Optional: a fix few sites have yet
Files for AI agents
Now None of the 8 we look for.
If agents could use the site, publish what they need where they look.
Details
Why it matters: Agents act for people: they look for these files to know what a site lets them do. Worth it only if agents can use the site.
Prompt for your coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, your builder’s chat)If AI agents could use https://wa.de for its visitors (to search it, book, buy or sign in), publish what they need at the standard addresses, and only what the site really offers: an MCP server card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json if it runs an MCP server, an API catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog (RFC 9727) listing its public APIs, and OAuth protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (RFC 9728) if agents sign in.
Left out of the score, as we couldn’t check them: Text without scripts, Search listing, Title and description, Structured data, llms.txt, Links for AI tools, Markdown copy.
Every check, with its evidence
Can AI find it?
- robots.txtFound, 54 linesFound
- SitemapListed in robots.txtFound
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 10Is this wrong? Report itSitemap: https://www.wa.de/news.xml
- Links for AI toolsIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Search listingIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
Can AI read it?
- Text without scriptsIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Markdown copyIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- llms.txtIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Title and descriptionIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Structured dataIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
Can agents use it?
- API catalogIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Sign-in for AI agentsIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Auth.mdIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- AI catalogIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- MCP serverIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Agent cardIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Agent SkillsIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
- Agents in DNSNone foundNot found
What it lets AI do
Not scoredKeeping AI out is the site’s choice, so it never lowers the score.
- AI trainingOpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and 4 moreKept out
- AI answers and searchMeta, Amazon and Mistral kept out, OpenAI, Anthropic and 2 more partlyPartly
Every AI crawler, and how we checked
AI companies
- OpenAIChatGPTTo train its modelsKept out
GPTBotline 5, for every crawlerTo answer people and searchPartlyOAI-SearchBotline 37, some pathsChatGPT-Userline 38, some paths - AnthropicClaudeTo train its modelsKept out
ClaudeBotline 5, for every crawleranthropic-ailine 5, for every crawlerClaude-Webline 5, for every crawlerTo answer people and searchPartlyClaude-SearchBotline 39, some pathsClaude-Userline 40, some paths - GoogleGeminiTo train its modelsKept out
Google-Extendedline 5, for every crawlerTo answer people and searchPartlyGoogle-CloudVertexBotline 18, some paths - PerplexityTo train its modelsNone namedTo answer people and searchPartly
PerplexityBotline 41, some pathsPerplexity-Userline 42, some paths - MetaMeta AITo train its modelsKept out
meta-externalagentline 5, for every crawlerFacebookBotline 5, for every crawlerTo answer people and searchKept outmeta-externalfetcherline 5, for every crawlermeta-webindexerline 5, for every crawler - AppleApple IntelligenceTo train its modelsKept out
Applebot-Extendedline 5, for every crawlerTo answer people and searchNone named - AmazonTo train its modelsKept out
Amazonbotline 5, for every crawlerTo answer people and searchKept outAmzn-SearchBotline 5, for every crawlerAmzn-Userline 5, for every crawler - Common Crawlopen data for trainingTo train its modelsKept out
CCBotline 5, for every crawlerTo answer people and searchNone named - ByteDanceTo train its modelsKept out
Bytespiderline 5, for every crawlerTikTokSpiderline 5, for every crawlerTo answer people and searchNone named - MistralLe ChatTo train its modelsNone namedTo answer people and searchKept out
MistralAI-Userline 5, for every crawler
27 of the 27 other AI crawlers we know are kept out: cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler, Diffbot, Omgilibot, Omgili and 22 more.
What it tells AI crawlers
- Content SignalsNoneNot found
- A “noai” tagIts robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay awayCouldn’t check
Like 75% of the 1,283 popular sites whose robots.txt we’ve read since 29 Oct 2026, it keeps no AI training crawler out. Of the 1,585 popular sites we’ve checked since 29 Oct 2026, 11% have a page drawn by scripts, 3% send a Markdown copy, 10% have an llms.txt and 4% offer a file for AI agents. How many websites block AI crawlers?
We read the site once, as our named bot: its robots.txt, read as crawlers read it, its home page and the files AI tools ask sites for. What we couldn’t read says so. robots.txt asks and doesn’t enforce: a firewall can treat AI crawlers differently from us.
Score breakdown
Site ScoreNo score: we couldn’t read the page, and outside records alone would mislead.
Why each part scored what it did
Domain history
Domain HistoryFirst archived in 2010.
- First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
- This scanCheckAnySite
In the web archive: captured in 17 of 17 years · see the first capture
- 2010: captured
- 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
933 checks on 1 Nov 2026, with version 0.6.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.
Questions about wa.de
What is wa.de?
It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence
How old is wa.de?
The web archive first saw it on 11 Feb 2010, 16 years ago. See the evidence
How popular is wa.de?
It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence
Who is behind wa.de?
Wikidata names Westfälischer Anzeiger. 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 1 Nov 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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