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Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (waz.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 1998. It is built with Tailwind CSS; 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: #14,653 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #10,752

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#14,653list 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#10,752list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Tailwind CSS.

  • Tailwind CSSCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · stylesheet /static/2026-10-26T09:10:32-830066a/nrw-waz/main.css
    /*! @version: 830066a */ /*! tailwindcss v4.3.3 | MIT License | https://tailwindcs…
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Everything else it uses (11)

Around it: CDN, Email, Tag manager, Advertising and more.

Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

5 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • 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 policyLinked from the home pageFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsName: Westdeutsche Allgemeine ZeitungPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: 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 registeredThe registry publishes no registration date, only when the record last changed (3 Feb 2026)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
  • First seen online12 Dec 1998, 27 years agoNotedInternet Archive
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings2 of 6 in placePartly
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

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What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsWAZ | Westdeutsche Allgemeine ZeitungAktuelle Nachrichten, Sport und Kultur aus dem Ruhrgebiet

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q561840: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, daily newspaper
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 53
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.waz.de/rss">
Exhibit 4 · its own title or description
WAZ | Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung · Aktuelle Nachrichten, Sport und Kultur aus dem Ruhrgebiet
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataWestdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
  • copyright lineFUNKE Mediengruppe
  • WikidataWestdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung

Confirmed by 3 independent sources: structured data, copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Funke Mediengruppe; based in Essen, Germany; founded by Jakob Funke and Erich Brost.

Its X account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 317
"name": "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 359
© 2026 FUNKE Mediengruppe
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q561840: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
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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 AI2Bot, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended and 26 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks meta-webindexer, PerplexityBot and YandexAdditional to stay away.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 75
User-agent: ai2bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 79
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 81
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 82
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 86
User-agent: Brightbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 88
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 89
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 90
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 91
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 95
User-agent: Cohere-Training-Data-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 96
User-agent: Cotoyogi · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 97
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 99
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 100
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 101
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 102
User-agent: FactSet_SpyderBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 106
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 108
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 113
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 114
User-Agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 115
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 119
User-Agent: meta-externalagent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 123
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 124
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 126
User-agent: PanguBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 132
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 136
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 138
User-agent: TikTokSpider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 139
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 142
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 120
User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 129
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 33 · robots.txt, line 141
User-agent: YandexAdditional · 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
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Language
German (de)
What it tells search engines
WebSite, Organization, NewsMediaOrganization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationWestdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung

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

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Score breakdown

Site Score

92 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

92OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page26 / 30
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10

Scored on the parts we could check.

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
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

First archived in 1998.

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

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

  1. 1998: captured
  2. 1999: captured
  3. 2000: captured
  4. 2001: captured
  5. 2002: captured
  6. 2003: captured
  7. 2004: captured
  8. 2005: captured
  9. 2006: captured
  10. 2007: captured
  11. 2008: captured
  12. 2009: captured
  13. 2010: captured
  14. 2011: captured
  15. 2012: captured
  16. 2013: captured
  17. 2014: captured
  18. 2015: captured
  19. 2016: captured
  20. 2017: captured
  21. 2018: captured
  22. 2019: captured
  23. 2020: captured
  24. 2021: captured
  25. 2022: captured
  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

929 checks on 27 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

Quick look

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 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#14,653list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#10,752list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CSS framework
Tailwind CSS

And 11 more around it (CDN, Email, Tag manager, Advertising), 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 policyFound
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredCouldn’t check
  • First seen onlineNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • 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 →

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How has it changed? →
Quick look

How does it add up?

92OF 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
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 →

Related

Questions about waz.de

What is waz.de?

Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung describes itself: “Aktuelle Nachrichten, Sport und Kultur aus dem Ruhrgebiet” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is waz.de?

The web archive first saw it on 12 Dec 1998, 27 years ago. See the evidence

What is waz.de built with?

It is built with Tailwind CSS; we found 12 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is waz.de?

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

Was waz.de 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 waz.de?

Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, named by its structured data, its copyright line and Wikidata. See the evidence

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 27 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 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.
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