GoGuides Trust Record

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Current Trust Summary

This GoGuides Trust Record summarizes the current measured state for thecitizen.com.

Trust Status

Policy blocked
First recorded by GoGuides: 2026-01-08 23:55:34

Public Eligibility

This domain is not eligible for positive trust display or machine-readable trust use.

Policy Reason

secretsauce penalty match
Code: secretsauce_penalty_match

Historical Grade

Not Available / Historical Rank 81

Crawl Freshness

Fresh
Last crawled 14 hours ago

Domain Provenance Record

3 measurements across 74 days

Stability Window

0 days

Trust Record

This domain is policy blocked. This Trust Record is shown for transparency and audit purposes only.

Policy blocked. Trust activation, badge publication, and positive machine-readable trust use are not available while this decision is active.

Canonical URL

https://thecitizen.com/

Matched URL

https://thecitizen.com/

AI Rank

Grade

Not Available

Domain Provenance Timeline

Independent GoGuides observations showing when this domain was first recorded, how long it has been observed, and when its recorded state changed.

Observed Web & Network State

Objective state captured by GoGuides during its domain observation. These fields describe what GoGuides observed and are separate from AI Rank or Grade.

HTTP Status

200

Observed Final URL

https://thecitizen.com/

Observed Public IP Addresses

104.21.66.43, 172.67.156.171, 2606:4700:3034::ac43:9cab, 2606:4700:3037::6815:422b

Observed Nameservers

lady.ns.cloudflare.com, rick.ns.cloudflare.com

Robots Access

Allowed
allowed

Page Robots Directive

max-image-preview:large

TLS Certificate

CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US
Valid 2026-06-23 15:42:38 to 2026-09-21 16:42:30

Observed Provenance States

7 stored states across 7 observations

Observed State Changes

Content: 6
Robots: 0
DNS: 0
TLS certificate: 0
Final URL: 0

Observed Evidence Details

These are objective observations recorded by the GoGuides crawler. They are separate from GoGuides AI Rank, Grade, or other interpretation.

Observation Type
Full Page Observation

Requested URL
https://thecitizen.com/

Final URL
https://thecitizen.com/

HTTP Status
200

Redirect Count
0

Content Type
text/html; charset=UTF-8

Response Bytes
508,959

Canonical URL
https://thecitizen.com/

Observed Page Title
Fayette County News & Community Updates | The Citizen

Robots Access
Allowed

Robots Reason
allowed

Meta Robots
max-image-preview:large

X-Robots-Tag
Not observed

Observed Public IP Address(es)
104.21.66.43, 172.67.156.171, 2606:4700:3034::ac43:9cab, 2606:4700:3037::6815:422b

Observed Nameservers
lady.ns.cloudflare.com, rick.ns.cloudflare.com

TLS Certificate Issuer
CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US

TLS Valid From
2026-06-23 15:42:38

TLS Valid Until
2026-09-21 16:42:30

First Observed
2026-08-14 23:43:56

Last Observed
2026-08-14 23:43:56

Identical-State Observations
1

▶ Show Cryptographic Evidence & SHA-256 Hashes ▼ Cryptographic Evidence & SHA-256 Hashes

                Title SHA-256

                eae32fe6de1c44c319c558f59ff22606c49816d091317d93a9d13e45a9811707            

                Content SHA-256

                b2cb40898295d7b643f02f03c09ca71e8678b4a17a29aeada6c926f3e71976cb            

                HTTP Body SHA-256

                e4467d66e057d22445ebbd87ac35fd0db17400f34a544dae4c2bfa6c9fdf2fb0            

                robots.txt SHA-256

                3a125e84a637dc3f5442bb6949fa200056f37db4627b4c2a3addc55bbb89b703            

                DNS State SHA-256

                0882697aeb8c59e5a76995ef606a1b2f42d7e4979e68b62887d0f66d0fa2142e            

                TLS Certificate SHA-256

                92e09048d0e7bee88f66705a96341ab073f97b438e1c56d65a850bead0b0dd43            

                Complete Provenance State SHA-256

                294da098995ca63b6c6fc529d7fac2fa2afa1f83124ff61ad02f55988b17b117

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First Seen by GoGuides

2026-01-08 23:55:34

Last Crawled by GoGuides

2026-08-14 23:43:55 (14 hours ago)

Last Record Refresh

2026-08-15 14:33:29 (just now)

Record Refresh Freshness

Fresh
Last refreshed just now

Stored Measurement Age

74 days

Trust Record Age

218 days ago

Stored Trust Measurements

Measurement Span

74 days across 3 stored measurements

Stability Window

0 days

Current Trust State Since

2026-08-15 14:33:29 (just now)

Days Since Last Change

0 days

Rank/Algo State Changes

Trust Record Fingerprint (SHA-256)

cf66fc94e37c1769f8bbd04de3e002cd73e512ce2dfa581c54f57b73c08a826d

Computed from: matched URL + rank + last crawled + algorithm version. This identifies the GoGuides trust record state; it is not domain-owner verification.

Provenance Observation History

This timeline shows when GoGuides recorded this trust state, including rank, crawl timing, algorithm version, and verification fingerprint.

Trust Favicon Not Available

This record is policy blocked and is shown for transparency only. GoGuides does not publish a positive trust favicon for this domain while this decision is active.

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