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How We Determine Site Legitimacy

To give you an overview of some of the most important aspects we evaluate when determining a site's legitimacy, here is a brief summary of the important factors our trained experts consider.

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This page explains how a gambling site gets onto a list here — and, just as important, what this site does not claim to have done.

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What We Check

A site gets onto a list here when the same eight facts can be found in what the operator publishes and quoted without changing them. They are the eight facts printed next to every entry:

  1. The licence the operator names, with the regulator and the number it quotes — an unnamed “licensed and regulated” line is not a licence.
  2. The welcome offer exactly as the operator publishes it: the percentage, the cap, or both.
  3. The wagering multiple attached to that offer.
  4. The minimum deposit that qualifies for it.
  5. The bonus code, where the operator requires one to claim the offer.
  6. The deposit and withdrawal methods the operator lists.
  7. The year the site went online.
  8. Whether the operator’s own terms accept players from the United States.

If the licence, the offer or its terms cannot be quoted, the site is not listed. That rule is why some well-known names are absent from these pages: not because of anything we found, but because there was nothing published to quote.

What We Do Not Do

We do not play at these sites, and we do not publish test results, star ratings or reader reviews. Nobody here has called a support line and timed the answer, so you will not find a page claiming we did. Payout windows, where they appear, are the processing times the operator publishes — not a stopwatch reading.

Figures come from the operator’s own pages and from the established review portals we monitor. Where the two disagree, the operator’s page wins. Where a figure cannot be sourced at all, it does not go on the page.

How the List Is Ordered

Lists here are ordered on the published offer, the licence, and the standing of the operator across the review portals we monitor. Some operators pay a commission when a reader opens an account through a link on this site — every outbound link to an operator runs through /go/, and those links are how the site is paid for.

A commission does not buy a place. A brand with no published bonus figure is not on the list at all, whatever it pays, and the order above is set by the same three checks for everyone.

The date shown at the top of the page is the day its figures were last refreshed.