What powers 
checkfirst.network?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 17 technologies across 13 categories
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AI Crawlers
Restricts 13 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Nov 2026.
Training crawlers
- Applebot-Extended Restricted
- CCBot Restricted
- ClaudeBot Restricted
- Google-Extended Restricted
- GPTBot Restricted
- meta-externalagent Restricted
Search and AI assistants
- Claude-SearchBot Restricted
- OAI-SearchBot Restricted
- PerplexityBot Restricted
User-request fetchers
- ChatGPT-User Restricted
- Claude-User Restricted
- MistralAI-User Restricted
- Perplexity-User Restricted
The other 20 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt found
- ai.txt not found
- Nov 2026 oai-searchbot added to robots.txt
- Nov 2026 claude-searchbot added to robots.txt
- Nov 2026 claude-user added to robots.txt
- Nov 2026 chatgpt-user added to robots.txt
- Nov 2026 llms.txt appeared
- Nov 2026 *: Restricted (was Allowed)
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| first check | #4 | 9 |
| check us first | #9 | 5 |
| radar first | #17 | 3 |
| russian secrets | #6 | 1 |
| eradicate hate 2024 | #10 | 0 |
| pravda network | #13 | 0 |
| fsb military | #15 | 0 |
| eu disinfolab | #16 | 0 |
| pravda russia | #23 | 0 |
| eradicate hate conference | #24 | 0 |
| mozilla festival 2025 | #24 | 0 |
| the pravda | #25 | 0 |
| pravda propaganda | #26 | 0 |
| disinfolab | #27 | 0 |
| trustcon 2024 | #29 | 0 |
| finnish youtube | #33 | 0 |
| military intelligence symbols | #38 | 0 |
| disinfo lab | #39 | 0 |
| bellingcat training | #41 | 0 |
| operation reset | #43 | 0 |
| apac summit | #44 | 0 |
| fimi meaning | #44 | 0 |
| secrets about russia | #44 | 0 |
| apac summit 2025 | #45 | 0 |
| fact network | #45 | 0 |
The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
AI Crawlers
13 of 33 AI crawlers restricted
Standards: llms.txt
Open Page Rank
5.30 / 10 · ranked #200,096 of all domains
149 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
18 est. monthly organic visits (US)
35 keywords in Google's top 30
Page
- Language: English
- Weight: 1.6 MB · 34 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, Microdata, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- Check First
- Profiles: X
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026).
Infrastructure
- Registered Jul 2020 (6 years) via Infomaniak Network SA, renews Jul 2027
- Hosted on OVHcloud (37.187.176.53)
- DNS: infomaniak.com
- Email: Infomaniak
- Email security: SPF (hard fail), DMARC reject, DNSSEC signed, BIMI
- SSL: Let's Encrypt, ECDSA P256, expires Jan 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 21,866, 6 hosts
- Verified with: Brevo, Google, OpenAI
DNS records as swept Nov 2026, certificate as seen Nov 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted