Is this website legit?
Find out before you pay.
Enter any domain and WebVouch returns a Trust Score built from what real customers reported: how many reviewed the business, how recently, and whether it answers complaints.
Free, no account, no scan of your device.
What you get back
A score out of 100
Five weighted signals from the business profile, with the points each one earned shown next to it.
The reasons behind it
How many reviews exist, how they are spread, how recent they are, and whether complaints get answered.
A link to the full profile
Every review the score was built from, so you can read the low ratings yourself before you decide.
How the Trust Score is calculated
The score runs from 0 to 100 and is built from five signals, all of them taken from the business profile on WebVouch. Each signal is worth the points listed below. When a business gives a signal nothing to read, that signal is dropped from the total instead of counted as a failure, so a business with no complaints is not marked down for having answered none.
How much feedback exists
25 pointsHow many reviews the profile carries, including any imported from other platforms. The scale is logarithmic, so the jump from 5 reviews to 50 counts for far more than the jump from 200 to 250.
How the ratings are distributed
25 pointsThe share of reviews rated 4 or 5 stars, less the share rated 1 or 2. A store split evenly between top and bottom ratings scores nothing here, because that shape is what bought reviews next to real complaints looks like.
Whether feedback is still arriving
20 pointsHow many of the 20 most recent reviews were written in the last 180 days. A store whose newest review is two years old tells you about a business that may no longer be running.
Whether complaints get answered
20 pointsThe share of reviews rated 1 or 2 stars that the company has replied to. Skipped when a store has no negative reviews yet, rather than counted as a failure.
What the business has proven
10 pointsHow many of the four profile checks the business has completed: identity, contact details, domain ownership and bank account.
What the bands mean
- 80 to 100
- Strong record
- 60 to 79
- Fair record
- 40 to 59
- Mixed record
- 0 to 39
- Weak record
A score is a summary of what customers reported. It is not a licence, an audit or a promise that a business will treat you well, and no business can pay to change it.
Scoring method last updated
How to check if a website is legit before you buy
A score narrows the question but does not close it. These are the checks worth running yourself, in the order they save you the most time.
Read the one and two star reviews first
Top ratings tell you the business can take money. The low ratings tell you what happens when an order goes wrong, which is the part you actually need to know.
Check the dates, not just the count
A site with 400 reviews that all landed in one week is a different site from one with 400 reviews spread over three years. Bursts are what bought reviews look like.
See whether the business replies to complaints
A business that answers its worst reviews has someone to talk to when your order goes wrong. Silence on every complaint is the more useful signal.
Find out who you are paying
Look for a company name, a registration number and a real contact address, not just a form. A business that will not say who it is has decided you do not need to know.
Read the refund terms before you pay, not after
For anything delivered instantly, a key, a licence or an account top up, this is the clause that matters most. Check what happens if it arrives already used, and how long you have to report it.
Pay with a method that can claw money back
Card and established payment providers give you a dispute route. A bank transfer or a crypto payment to a stranger does not.
Warning signs of a fake website
Most sites that take money and deliver nothing share the same handful of tells. Any one of these is worth pausing over. Two together is usually enough to walk away.
The price is far below every other seller
A licence or a subscription priced at a fraction of what every other seller charges is not a bargain the seller found. It is either stolen, region locked, already used, or never arriving.
Payment only by transfer, crypto or gift card
These are the three methods with no dispute route. A seller that refuses cards and established payment providers has chosen the one path where you cannot get money back.
No company name and no registration number
A real business has to say who it is. If no page names a legal entity or a register it is filed in, there is nobody to complain to and nobody to sue.
The only contact is a web form
No address, no phone, no named person. A form is a black hole by design, and you find that out after the order goes wrong rather than before.
The refund terms are missing or contradict themselves
For digital goods this is the clause that decides everything. Terms that never mention redeemed keys, or that promise refunds in one place and refuse them in another, are written to be argued with.
A burst of five star reviews and nothing before it
Forty perfect ratings inside one week, then silence, is not what an honest trading history looks like. Real feedback arrives unevenly and keeps arriving.
A new domain claiming years of trading
A site registered a month ago that advertises a decade of happy customers is telling you one of those two things is false.
The domain is one character off a brand you know
Swapped letters, an extra hyphen, or .net where the real site uses .com. Lookalike domains exist to collect payments meant for somebody else, and the page behind them is usually a faithful copy.
What a website legit checker can and cannot tell you
WebVouch reads what customers reported about a business. It does not scan the site itself. The two kinds of check answer different questions, and knowing which is which saves you from trusting the wrong all clear.
| The question | Customer reviews | Technical scan |
|---|---|---|
| Did people who paid get what they ordered? | ||
| Does the business answer its complaints? | ||
| Are refunds actually honoured? | ||
| Has the business been trading for a while? | ||
| Is the site serving malware? | ||
| Is the domain on a security blocklist? | ||
| Is the certificate valid? |
For the technical half of the question, Google publishes the check for free:
A site can pass every technical scan and still take your money and send nothing. Nothing in a certificate or a blocklist records whether the last hundred buyers got their orders. That gap is the only part of the question WebVouch claims to answer.
Questions people ask before they buy
Start with its review record: how many customers wrote about it, whether those reviews are recent, and what the one and two star reviews say. Then confirm who runs the site and what its refund terms are, and pay with a method that lets you dispute the charge. Entering the domain above does the review half in one step.
