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# smartshanghai.com

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## Website

smartshanghai.com

Discover & Bookmark the Best of Shanghai — Dining, Culture, Events & More | SmartShanghai” | SmartShanghai

Checked on 13 Nov 2026, 00:08 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 52 out of 100, Mixed truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

52 / 100

Mixed truth signals

## Business details

Category: News and magazines

Kind of seller: Information or media

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: Not found

Address: Not found No address found using the trading company name

Email address: Not found

Phone number: Not found

Contact page: [smartshanghai.com/contact](https://smartshanghai.com/contact)

Website: [smartshanghai.com](https://smartshanghai.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: Not found

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

Site Reviews Rating

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/smartshanghai.com) · Read 13 November 2026 · 4 reviews · 2.9 out of 5 stars

Total 4 3.3 out of 5 stars

Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · From 4 reviews on 1 independent review site

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is smartshanghai.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 52 out of 100, mixed truth signals: 4 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 4 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: mixed. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 22 years ago. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 4 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.9 stars out of 5. We could not find a matching registered company, when its domain was registered, social media profiles, its email security settings, an address, an email address or a phone number.

### Positives

- The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 22 years ago.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Be cautious

- A low number of independent reviews (4 on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/smartshanghai.com) ), but it falls short with only 2.9 stars out of 5.

### Not found

- Company details information was not found from our checks.
- Domain registration information was not found from our checks.
- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- Domain and email security information was not found from our checks.
- Domain age information was not found from our checks.
- Address information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### What they offer

About them

What makes them different: “Canadian jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall returns to Shanghai for the first time in 18 years.”

Sources [Its homepage](https://www.smartshanghai.com/)

### How to check if smartshanghai.com is legit

To check if smartshanghai.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about smartshanghai.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details No data found from the sources checked.

Domain registration We could not check when its domain was registered.

Website details We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: Not found

Contact page found: Yes

What its pages say

In their own words: “Welcome to SmartShanghai.com, the leading English-language online magazine in Shanghai for over two decades. Since our inception, we've been dedicated to bringing you the most engaging, insightful, and irreverent coverage of the city's vibrant life. Our distinctive editorial voice, combined with a genuine passion for Shanghai, has made us a trusted source for everything happening in this dynamic city.”

Sources [Homepage](https://smartshanghai.com/) [Contact page](https://smartshanghai.com/contact) [About page](https://smartshanghai.com/about/) [Terms page](https://smartshanghai.com/legal) [Privacy page](https://smartshanghai.com/privacy)

Search engines and AI Lets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file Googlebot

Bing: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file Bingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file GPTBot

Anthropic: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file ClaudeBot

Google AI: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file Google-Extended

Apple AI: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file CCBot

Meta: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed: it has no robots.txt file Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed: it has no robots.txt file PerplexityBot

Sources [robots.txt](https://smartshanghai.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints Rated 2.9 stars out of 5 from 4 reviews on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/smartshanghai.com)

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/smartshanghai.com) · 2.9 out of 5 stars · 4

Trustindex · Not checked

Total · 3.3 out of 5 stars · 4

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 500,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: none

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up smartshanghai.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 Singapore 75.0%
- 2 United States 9.6%
- 3 Hong Kong 5.8%
- 4 France 3.8%
- 5 Argentina 1.9%
- 6 Malaysia 1.9%
- 7 South Africa 1.9%

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/smartshanghai.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 22 years ago

Website archive history: 22 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20031204/smartshanghai.com)

Social presence We could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

### What data this site collects about you

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Analytics

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at.

Source [Its homepage](https://smartshanghai.com/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security We could not check how its email is protected: the check ran out of time.

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source smartshanghai.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source smartshanghai.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 52, Mixed: https://truthsignal.com/business/smartshanghai.com/report/2026-11.md

## How the customers' Total rating is worked out

Bayesian average: 7 reviews at 3.5 stars added, so a few reviews move it less. The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures:

(7 × 3.5 + 2.9 × 4 (SmartCustomer)) ÷ (7 + 4) = 3.3, to one decimal place

## Cite

Truth Signal, SmartShanghai: truth score 52 out of 100, legitimacy confidence Mixed, assessed 2026-11-13, https://truthsignal.com/business/smartshanghai.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/smartshanghai.com.json
