Rumor.Press
Rumor.Press – is a news headlines aggregator which displays real time breaking news and current headlines from top news organizations across the United States and around the world.
What we found
- Analytics set tracking cookies before any opt-in, and we found no consent manager.
- It sends four of the six security headers we check; missing are Permissions-Policy and Strict-Transport-Security.
- DMARC only monitors (p=none), so email spoofing this domain is still delivered.
- Built with WordPress and PHP, the site is hosted on Shock Hosting LLC in the United States, with a domain registered in 2020.
- One more gap is listed further down the page.
Built with: 12 technologies
How it fits together
Each technology runs on, or extends, the one it sits under.
| Technology | Type |
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| Infrastructure | |
| Shock Hosting DNS | DNS |
| HTTP/3 | Protocol |
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Transactional email |
| Build & Framework | |
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API |
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CMS |
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Font |
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JavaScript library |
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Programming language |
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WordPress theme |
| Analytics & Marketing | |
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Analytics |
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Analytics |
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Tag management |
Each technology links to its own page: which other new sites launched with it.
Site checks
| Custom title and meta description | |
| Open Graph tags (title, image, description) | |
| Twitter card meta tags | |
| Canonical URL declared | |
| Responsive viewport meta tag | |
| Favicon present | |
| Semantic HTML (nav, main, article) | |
| Meta description is 180 characters Google only shows about 155–160 characters of the description in desktop search results (less on mobile); anything past that won't appear. |
| Referrer-Policy | |
| X-Frame-Options | |
| Permissions-Policy experimental | |
| X-Content-Type-Options | |
| Content-Security-Policy | |
| Strict-Transport-Security | |
| X-XSS-Protection deprecated, not counted |
| Privacy policy /privacy/ | |
| Terms of service /2026/11/09/opinion/democrats-midterms-populism.html | |
| Consent manager not detected; analytics set tracking cookies on our visit with no opt-in step |
Mentions: Cookies
| robots.txt | |
| sitemap.xml | |
| security.txt optional | |
| llms.txt optional | |
| ads.txt only for ad-funded sites | |
| humans.txt optional |
| llms.txt published not published | |
| No AI bots blocked in robots.txt | |
| Content-Signal none declared | |
| Link headers none advertised |
| State | Record | Status |
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| SPF ~all | Soft-fail (~all), common and accepted | |
| DMARC p=none | Monitoring only (p=none) | |
| DKIM | Not found at common selectors | |
| MTA-STS | Not deployed | |
| TLS-RPT | Not configured |
Hosting and network
| Network | SHOCK-1 - Shock Hosting LLC, US AS395092, US |
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| DNS | Shock Hosting DNS authoritative nameservers |
| DNSSEC | Not enabled DNS answers are unsigned |
| Certificate | Let's Encrypt valid 13 Sep 2026 to 12 Dec 2026, as captured |
| Domain age | 6.6 years registered Apr 2020, NameCheap, Inc. |
| Green hosting | No record per The Green Web Foundation |
| Page build | 9 JS files, 7 CSS files 46 third-party domains, code splitting |
| Brand colours |
Storage: 4 items
| Name | Lifetime | Set by |
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| WMF-Uniq | 12mo | Wikimedia |
| _ga | 1y | Google Analytics |
| _ga_XMHKXJP5MN | 1y | Google Analytics |
| Key | Size | Set by |
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| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | 70 B | WordPress |
Performance
| Measure | This site | Reading |
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| Server response | 942 ms | fair, faster than 11% of sites |
| Largest contentful paint | 4,984 ms | slow |
| Layout shift | 0.25 | some |
| Page weight | 1.8 MB | fair |
| Image weight | 1.3 MB | fair |
| Images | 47 | 13 larger than shown, 40 without width and height |
| Third-party domains | 46 | |
| Console errors | 0 | none |
| Failed requests | 0 | none |
From a single automated render of the home page. A quick guide, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data. How we measure
Notes
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Looks AI-built: few AI signals.
How much the site looks AI-generated. It is a pattern match shown for interest, not a verdict.
Which signals fired
Signal Points Placeholder branding +10 AI writing signals +5 - Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit and no consent manager was detected. UK and EU GDPR require opt-in before tracking runs, and more than 20 US states require honouring opt-out requests.
- Performance comes from one render on 9 November 2026 and will vary between visits.
How we know
FirstSited records what new websites are built with, usually within a day of going live. Most we find ourselves, by watching public internet infrastructure for brand-new sites; the rest come from Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush. We checked this one in full: its tech stack, DNS, security headers and page basics. This page is what we saw on 9 November 2026; the live site may have changed since.
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