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zdf.de

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92OF 100
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In its own wordsZDF Streaming-Portal: Filme, Serien und Dokus online anschauenAlle Videos und Livestreams im ZDF anschauen - ständig verfügbar und interaktiv! Entdecke Filme, Serien, Sportevents, Dokumentationen und vieles mehr!
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withNext.js14 technologies foundTrust signals4 of 7 foundDomain age unknownBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

ZDF (zdf.de) is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 1996. It is built with Next.js; 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: #3,431 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #1,330

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#3,431list 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#1,330list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Next.js.

  • Next.jsFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="/_next/static/chunks/34gs4b1idu3ba.js">
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Everything else it uses (13)

Around it: CDN, DNS, Email, SEO 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.

  • 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 detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

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 (21 May 2014)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
  • First seen online27 Dec 1996, 29 years agoNotedInternet Archive
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings1 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 “ZDF Streaming-Portal: Filme, Serien und Dokus online anschauen”.

In its own wordsZDF Streaming-Portal: Filme, Serien und Dokus online anschauenAlle Videos und Livestreams im ZDF anschauen - ständig verfügbar und interaktiv! Entdecke Filme, Serien, Sportevents, Dokumentationen und vieles mehr!

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

Who is behind it

  • WikidataZDF

Wikidata: Based in Mainz, Germany.

Its Facebook account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q48989: ZDF
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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

  • ZDF: main program of the German public-service television broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen · public broadcasting, television network, generalist television channel · since 1963
  • ZDFmediathek: video on demand service from the ZDF · video streaming service · since 2001

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: names CCBot, Google-Extended and GPTBot with rules for some pages.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 4
User-agent: CCBot
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 5
User-agent: Google-Extended
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 6
User-agent: GPTBot
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
ZDF
Language
German (de)
What it tells search engines
WebSite

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

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 1996.

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

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How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#3,431list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#1,330list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Framework
Next.js

And 13 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, SEO), 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 policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsNot found
  • 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? →
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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 →

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Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 13 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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