Wales Online

walesonline.co.uk

Scanned 21 Oct 2026Fresh929 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteWalesOnline: News, sport, weather and events from across WalesWalesOnline - News, sport, weather, politics, business, jobs and lifestyle in Wales.

Wales Online (walesonline.co.uk) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1997. It is built with Next.js, styled-components 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.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #8,480 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #3,664

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#8,480	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 10,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#3,664	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Next.js, styled-components and Varnish.

Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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<script src="/nav-web-static/main-796634f56e9cce0c9a00f35d7baa01e3ccd40310/_next/static/chunks/4bd1b696-71ef723f47b3f1f9.js">
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Evidence · page source, line 23
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2 attributes starting with data-styled
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Evidence · response header
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x-varnish: 610756216 610825233
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Everything else it uses (11)

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

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Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4de5a01a9577538-SEA
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Evidence · response header
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x-amz-cf-id: kn1o8j5H8HRjj4gJvvlKju18D_HfMaEeZh9deA756LGHVCD9fWSLdA==
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Evidence · DNS record
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walesonline.co.uk NS ns-1452.awsdns-53.org.
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Evidence · DNS record
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walesonline.co.uk MX 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
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Evidence · DNS record
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walesonline.co.uk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ~all
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Google Ad ManagerAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1
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<link rel="preload" href="https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js" as="script">
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TaboolaAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 75
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…et_type\":\"mix\"},\"loaderScript\":\"//cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/tmg-network/loader.js\",\"size\"…
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Evidence · DNS record
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walesonline.co.uk TXT google-site-verification=-p-8EgSgz__aQtv0ZB9bPBspBnxkef2ne8dauYyQIQ0
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Evidence · page source, line 75
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…erstitialForLiveEvent\":true,\"isReplaceJWPlayerWithPrimis\":true,\"isPrimisWaitForLight…
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Meta BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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walesonline.co.uk TXT facebook-domain-verification=yprknta93b7hz0185nkd3cggdpktj8
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Evidence · DNS record
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walesonline.co.uk TXT tollbit-domain-verification=01981b8ebadc320cfab707ddc61092a42f81dc35fb628a20bacc2caf03b91160
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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 registered25 May 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 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 pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
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 detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Company detailsName: Wales OnlinePartly
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Ad Manager, TaboolaNoted

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 registered25 May 1997, 29 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settings2 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 wordsWalesOnline: News, sport, weather and events from across WalesWalesOnline - News, sport, weather, politics, business, jobs and lifestyle in Wales.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data

"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q2670849: Western Mail, newspaper

Exhibit 3 · page source, line 1

<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/rss.xml">

Exhibit 4 · its own title or description

WalesOnline: News, sport, weather and events from across Wales · Wales Online · WalesOnline - News, sport, weather, politics, business, jobs and lifestyle in Wa

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Who is behind it

structured dataWales Online
WikidataWestern Mail

Wikidata: Owned by Henry Lascelles Carr, Reach plc and 1 more; based in Cardiff; founded by John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 75

"name": "Wales Online"

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q2670849: Western 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

Western Mail: newspaper published in Wales · newspaper, publishing house, daily newspaper · since 1869
South Wales Echo: daily tabloid newspaper published in Cardiff, Wales · newspaper · since 1884
Media Wales: publishing company based in Cardiff, Wales · publishing house, business · since 1869

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of these items. 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 GPTBot, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, YouBot and 4 more to stay away.
AI assistants: asks OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot to stay away.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 18

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 24

User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 33

User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 36

User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 39

User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 42

User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /

Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 45

User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /

Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 57

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /

Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 21

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 27

User-agent: PerplexityBot · 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: Wales Online
Language: English (en)
What it tells search engines: CollectionPage, NewsMediaOrganization, ItemList

Named in its structured data

News Media OrganizationWales Online

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

94 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; 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 protections13 / 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 10K in a popularity list

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on 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.

25 May 1997Domain registeredRDAP
21 Oct 2026This 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

929 checks on 21 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

Questions about walesonline.co.uk

What is walesonline.co.uk?

Wales Online describes itself: “WalesOnline - News, sport, weather, politics, business, jobs and lifestyle in Wales.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is walesonline.co.uk?

Its domain was registered on 25 May 1997, 29 years ago. See the evidence

What is walesonline.co.uk built with?

It is built with Next.js, styled-components and Varnish; we found 14 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is walesonline.co.uk?

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

Was walesonline.co.uk 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 walesonline.co.uk?

Its structured data names Wales Online. 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 21 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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