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96OF 100
How it adds up →
In its own wordswikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.Learn how to do anything with wikiHow, the world's most popular how-to website. Easy, well-researched, and trustworthy instructions for everything you want to know.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withMediaWiki10 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain registered 22 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

wikiHow (wikihow.com) is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 2004. It is built with MediaWiki; 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: #2,028 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #473

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#2,028list 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#473list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with MediaWiki.

  • MediaWikiCMSShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 11
    <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.33.0-alpha">
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Everything else it uses (9)

Around it: CDN, Email, Advertising, Marketing 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 registered12 Jun 2004, 22 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: wikiHowPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Google AdSenseNoted

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 registered12 Jun 2004, 22 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

It calls itself “wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.”.

In its own wordswikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.Learn how to do anything with wikiHow, the world's most popular how-to website. Easy, well-researched, and trustworthy instructions for everything you want to know.

The page doesn’t show enough to say what kind of site it is (a shop, a blog, an app…).

Who is behind it

  • structured datawikiHow
  • copyright linewikiHow, Inc

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and copyright line.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 2457
"name": "wikiHow"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 2513
© 2026 wikiHow, Inc. All rights reserved. Use of site content is subject to our
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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

Find them on

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

AI use

  • AI training: asks AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai and 19 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, DuckAssistBot and 5 more to stay away.
Show evidence (32)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 24
User-agent: Ai2Bot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 30
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 36
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 44
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 47
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 50
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 56
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 65
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 68
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 71
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 83
User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 101
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 116
User-agent: ICC-Crawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 119
User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 122
User-agent: img2dataset · Disallow: /
Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 137
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent · Disallow: /
Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 166
User-agent: omgili · Disallow: /
Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 201
User-agent: TikTokSpider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 20 · robots.txt, line 204
User-agent: Timpibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 21 · robots.txt, line 210
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler · Disallow: /
Exhibit 22 · robots.txt, line 222
User-agent: Webzio-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 23 · robots.txt, line 238
User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 24 · robots.txt, line 53
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 25 · robots.txt, line 59
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 26 · robots.txt, line 62
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 27 · robots.txt, line 80
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 28 · robots.txt, line 140
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher · Disallow: /
Exhibit 29 · robots.txt, line 143
User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer · Disallow: /
Exhibit 30 · robots.txt, line 149
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 31 · robots.txt, line 160
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 32 · robots.txt, line 172
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
wikiHow
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
WebSite, Organization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationwikiHow

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

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 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

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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 22 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 2004; first archived in 2005.

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

In the web archive: captured in 22 of 22 years · see the first capture

  1. 2005: captured
  2. 2006: captured
  3. 2007: captured
  4. 2008: captured
  5. 2009: captured
  6. 2010: captured
  7. 2011: captured
  8. 2012: captured
  9. 2013: captured
  10. 2014: captured
  11. 2015: captured
  12. 2016: captured
  13. 2017: captured
  14. 2018: captured
  15. 2019: captured
  16. 2020: captured
  17. 2021: captured
  18. 2022: captured
  19. 2023: captured
  20. 2024: captured
  21. 2025: captured
  22. 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 12 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.

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How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#2,028list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#473list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CMS
MediaWiki

And 9 more around it (CDN, Email, Advertising, Marketing), in the section.

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 headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactNot found

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?

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 →

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 12 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.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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