theguardian.com
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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
- Contact page
- theguardian.com/
help/ contact-us - Website
- theguardian.com
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints
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
- We read 4 of its pages · contact, about, terms and privacy.
- Its website address was registered 32 years ago.
- 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
- A low number of independent reviews (29 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.4 stars out of 5.
Not found
- 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
- Products
- The Guardian
Latest YouTube video
Correct as of
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)
- 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
- Industry
- journalism
- Parent company
- Guardian Media Group
- Founded
- 1821
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.
- 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.
All allowed
- Google Search
- Allowed by defaultGooglebot
- Bing
- Allowed by defaultBingbot
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
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: /
Reputation and track record
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints255,347 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.4 to 4.8 out of 5
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | Unknown |
| SmartCustomer | 2.4 out of 5 stars | 29 |
| Total | 4.8 out of 5 stars | 255,347 |
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
- 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
- Popularity across the internet
- top 5,000 sites
Share of people looking up theguardian.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
- 1United States26.0%
- 2Singapore25.2%
- 3United Kingdom17.4%
- 4Australia3.7%
- 5Germany2.7%
- 6Canada2.7%
- 7Netherlands2.2%
- 8Sweden1.7%
- 9France1.6%
- 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
YouTube Data113,252 views a video, 114,852 views a day and a new video every 1.0 days
- 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
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- reject
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Certificate type
- DV
- Certificate expires
- 5 Mar 2027
- 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
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
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
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