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Business details

Founded
1821
Owned by
Guardian Media Group
Domain age
32 years
Address
90 York Way, London, N1 9GU
Email address
guardian.letters@theguardian.com
Phone number
+44 20 3353 2000
Social media

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating
SmartCustomer· Read 11 November 2026· 29 reviews· 2.4 out of 5 stars
App Store· Read 11 November 2026· 255,318 ratings· 4.8 out of 5 stars
Total255,3474.8 out of 5 stars

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Customer satisfactionMostly satisfiedFrom independent reviews, weighed by their number

Summary

Is theguardian.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 93 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 of 11 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: mostly satisfied.

We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 32 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It is among the 5,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar). No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 29 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.4 stars out of 5. We could not find an archive history for its website.

Positives

  1. We read 4 of its pages · contact, about, terms and privacy.
  2. Its website address was registered 32 years ago.
  3. It is among the 5,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar).
  4. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Be cautious

  1. A low number of independent reviews (29 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.4 stars out of 5.

Not found

  1. Web history and authority information was not found from our checks.

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

Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
— Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian, in their own words
What they sell
Products
The Guardian

Latest YouTube video

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How to check if theguardian.com is legit

To check if theguardian.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 theguardian.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.

Who they are

Company detailsPart of Guardian Media Group; founded in 1821 (Wikipedia)
Country
Where the company is based
Not stated with its address
Which countries the company serves
UK, US
Why we believe that
£ prices on its homepage, $ prices on its homepage, its delivery page says it ships to the US
From Wikipedia
Industry
journalism
Parent company
Guardian Media Group
Founded
1821
SourcesWikipedia
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 32 years ago
  • Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
Domain age
32 years
Domain transfer lock enabled
Yes
Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy
  • Company contact email is available
HTTPS enabled
Yes
Contact phone number found
+44 20 3353 2000
Contact page found
Yes
Hosting company
Fastly, Inc.
What its pages say
In their own words
“Since 1821 the mission of the Guardian has been to use clarity and imagination to build hope. Guardian Media Group is a global news organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism - giving a voice to the powerless and holding power to account. Our independent ownership structure means we are entirely free from political and commercial influence.”
Search engines and AILets in search engines; blocks 5 of 7 AI training tools and 3 of 5 AI answer tools

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 by defaultGooglebot
Bing
Allowed by defaultBingbot
AI training

5 of 7 blocked

OpenAI
Allowed by defaultGPTBot
Anthropic
Blocked by its robots.txtClaudeBot
Google AI
Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI
Blocked by its robots.txtApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl
Blocked by its robots.txtCCBot
Meta
Blocked by its robots.txtmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok)
Blocked by its robots.txtBytespider
AI answers

3 of 5 blocked

ChatGPT search
Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT
Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
Claude search
Blocked by its robots.txtClaude-SearchBot
Claude
Blocked by its robots.txtClaude-User
Perplexity
Blocked by its robots.txtPerplexityBot
User-agent: NewsNow
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: TurnitinBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: MoodleBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: Mojeek
User-agent: JenkersBot
User-agent: Seekr
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
User-agent: coccocbot-web
User-agent: SeznamBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: yacy
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: SentiOne
User-agent: ImageSift
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: YandexAdditional
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
User-agent: scalepostAI
User-agent: Buck
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: amazon-QBusiness
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Disallow: /
Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints255,347 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.4 to 4.8 out of 5
PlatformRatingReviews
TrustpilotUnknownUnknown
SmartCustomer2.4 out of 5 stars29
Total4.8 out of 5 stars255,347
App StoreIts app, The Guardian - UK & World News, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.8 out of 5 from 255,318 ratings, counted in the reviews total.
App
The Guardian - UK & World News
App Store rating
4.8 out of 5
App Store ratings
255,318
Visitor trafficIt is among the 5,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
  • 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 1,000 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
Cloudflare Radar
Popularity across the internet
top 5,000 sites
Where its visitors are

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

United Arab Emirates under 0.1%Albania under 0.1%Argentina 0.2%Austria 0.1%Australia 3.7%Azerbaijan under 0.1%Bangladesh 0.2%Belgium 0.3%Bulgaria 0.2%Bolivia under 0.1%Brazil 1.1%Belarus under 0.1%Canada 2.7%Congo under 0.1%Switzerland 0.3%Côte d'Ivoire under 0.1%Chile under 0.1%China under 0.1%Colombia 0.2%Costa Rica under 0.1%Cyprus under 0.1%Czechia under 0.1%Germany 2.7%Denmark 0.3%Dominican Republic under 0.1%Ecuador under 0.1%Estonia under 0.1%Egypt under 0.1%Spain 1.0%Finland 0.5%France 1.6%United Kingdom 17.4%Georgia under 0.1%Greece 0.2%Guyana under 0.1%Croatia under 0.1%Hungary under 0.1%Indonesia 0.5%Ireland 0.8%Israel under 0.1%India 1.4%Iran under 0.1%Iceland under 0.1%Italy 0.3%Jamaica under 0.1%Jordan under 0.1%Japan 0.5%Kenya under 0.1%Cambodia under 0.1%South Korea 0.1%Kazakhstan under 0.1%Lithuania under 0.1%Luxembourg under 0.1%Latvia under 0.1%Malawi under 0.1%Mexico 0.3%Malaysia 0.2%Namibia under 0.1%Nicaragua under 0.1%Netherlands 2.2%Norway 0.2%Nepal under 0.1%New Zealand 1.0%Peru under 0.1%Philippines 0.1%Pakistan 0.2%Poland 0.3%Portugal 0.3%Paraguay under 0.1%Qatar under 0.1%Romania 0.1%Russia 0.1%Saudi Arabia under 0.1%Sweden 1.7%Slovenia under 0.1%Slovakia under 0.1%Suriname under 0.1%South Sudan under 0.1%Syria under 0.1%Thailand 0.2%Turkey 0.4%Trinidad and Tobago under 0.1%Taiwan under 0.1%Tanzania under 0.1%Ukraine under 0.1%United States 26.0%Uzbekistan under 0.1%Venezuela under 0.1%Vietnam 0.2%South Africa 0.7%Zimbabwe under 0.1%Singapore 25.2%Hong Kong 1.1%Dominica under 0.1%Barbados under 0.1%Malta under 0.1%Andorra under 0.1%Virgin Islands, U. S. under 0.1%Antigua and Barbuda under 0.1%Cook Islands under 0.1%
  • Over 50%
  • 5 to 50%
  • 1 to 5%
  • 0.2 to 1%
  • Under 0.2%
  • None seen
  1. 1United States26.0%
  2. 2Singapore25.2%
  3. 3United Kingdom17.4%
  4. 4Australia3.7%
  5. 5Germany2.7%
  6. 6Canada2.7%
  7. 7Netherlands2.2%
  8. 8Sweden1.7%
  9. 9France1.6%
  10. 10India1.4%

Top 10 of 100 countries.

Web history and authorityWe have checked it 2 times since 11 November 2026
Social presenceIt is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 9,546,604 followers on Facebook
FoundPlatformAudience
Facebook9,546,604 followers
Instagram7,000,000 followers
X.comUnknown
LinkedInUnknown
YouTube2,660,000 subscribers
TikTok933,900 followers
20,140,504 followers total
YouTube channel
7,681 videos, 2,660,000 subscribers, last upload 10 Nov 2026
YouTube Data113,252 views a video, 114,852 views a day and a new video every 1.0 days
The Guardian@theguardian
Views per video869,887,688 views ÷ 7,681 videos
113,252
Views a day869,887,688 views ÷ 7,574 days
114,852
Views per subscriber869,887,688 views ÷ 2,660,000 subscribers
327
New subscribers a day2,660,000 subscribers ÷ 7,574 days
351
Subscribers per 1,000 views2,660,000 subscribers ÷ 869,887,688 views × 1,000
3.1
Subscribers per video2,660,000 subscribers ÷ 7,681 videos
346
Days between videos7,574 days ÷ 7,681 videos
1.0
Channel age15 February 2006 to 11 November 2026
20 years 8 months
Subscribers
2,660,000
Views
869,887,688
Videos
7,681
Started
15 February 2006
Country
United Kingdom
Language
Not stated
Topics
Society, Politics
Made for children
No
Website in its description
https://bit.ly/2Zyt72O
Trailer
Yes

What data this site collects about you

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Ads

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

Google Ads
Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis 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
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
Known data breaches found
0
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked
Email
MX records
Yes
SPF record
Yes
DKIM key
Yes
DMARC record
Yes
DMARC policy
reject
Certificate
Security certificate browsers warn about
No
Certificate issuer
GlobalSign nv-sa
Certificate type
DV
Certificate expires
5 Mar 2027
Hosting
Nameservers
dns1.p04.nsone.net
dns2.p04.nsone.net
dns3.p04.nsone.net
dns4.p04.nsone.net
ns01.theguardiandns.com
ns02.theguardiandns.com
ns03.theguardiandns.com
ns04.theguardiandns.com
Address
151.101.1.111
151.101.129.111
151.101.193.111
151.101.65.111

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 recordNot 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
Sourcetheguardian.com's DNS records
Run theguardian.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Email at its own domainNot 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
SourceTruth Signal's own records
Run theguardian.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Lets our checker read itNot 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
Sourcetheguardian.com/robots.txt
Run theguardian.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Points added to its truth score0 of 5
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