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20minutes.fr

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78OF 100
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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news site20 Minutes - Toute l’actualité en direct et les dernières infos en continuSuivez l’actualité du jour sur 20 Minutes, média gratuit et indépendant. Politique, Sport, Culture, High Tech, Ecologie… Toute l’info en continu
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withCloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, FastlyAround the site; no CMS or framework visibleTrust signals2 of 7 foundDomain registered 25 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

20 Minutes (20minutes.fr) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2001. It uses Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront and Fastly; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #4,380 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #2,728

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#4,380list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#2,728list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

No framework or CMS shows in the page; it uses CDN, Security, DNS, Email and more.

Everything else it uses (17)

Around it: CDN, Security, DNS, Email and more.

Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

2 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • Domain registered11 Jul 2001, 25 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS, but plain HTTP doesn’t send visitors therePartly
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNot linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold itPartly
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageLinked from the home pageFound
  • About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNot linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold itPartly
  • TermsLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Company detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: TaboolaNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
  • Domain registered11 Jul 2001, 25 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS, but plain HTTP doesn’t send visitors therePartly
  • Protective settings1 of 6 in placePartly
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS records

A second opinion on its security setup: Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory grades the site when you open it. Ten checks before you buy · A signal looks wrong? Report it

What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own words20 Minutes - Toute l’actualité en direct et les dernières infos en continuSuivez l’actualité du jour sur 20 Minutes, média gratuit et indépendant. Politique, Sport, Culture, High Tech, Ecologie… Toute l’info en continu

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q7245532: 20 minutes, daily newspaper
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 2
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.20minutes.fr/feeds/rss-une.xml">
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Who is behind it

  • copyright line20 Minutes
  • Wikidata20 minutes

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by SIPA - Ouest-France group and Rossel La Voix Group; based in Levallois-Perret, France; founded by Vend Marketplaces.

Its X and YouTube accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 3
© Copyright 20 Minutes
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q7245532: 20 minutes
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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

  • 20 minutes: French daily newspaper · daily newspaper, business · since 2002

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of this item. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

Find them on

The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: asks Claude-Web, Google-Extended, GPTBot, CCBot and 4 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, MistralAI-User, Claude-User and 3 more to stay away.
Show evidence (15)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 16
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 19
User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 33
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 34
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 37
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 39
User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 40
User-agent: Applebot-Extended · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 12
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 13
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 14
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 15
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 17
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 18
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 36
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
20 Minutes
Language
French (fr)
What it tells search engines
None

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

How we know

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Score breakdown

Site Score

78 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

78OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections10 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy: not linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold it · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 25 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections10 / 15loads over HTTPS · doesn’t send visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · no protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · doesn’t tell search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 2001.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached; we’ll ask it again. Why can this be empty?

Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

  • Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
  • With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
  • Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.
This scan, in numbers

926 checks on 14 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

Quick look

Built with AI?

None foundWe found no AI builder traces.

“None found” never means “made by a person”: coding assistants leave no traces.

All the evidence →

Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#4,380list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#2,728list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

CDN
Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly
Security
Cloudflare Bot Management
DNS
Amazon Route 53
Email
Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Amazon SES, Mailjet
Tag manager
Google Tag Manager
Advertising
Taboola
SEO
Google Search Console
Support
Zendesk
Business tools
Meta Business, Adobe, Dropbox, TikTok for Developers
Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageFound
  • About pageNot found
  • Privacy policyPartly
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsNot found
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSPartly
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactNot found

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

Every signal with its source →

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How has it changed? →
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How does it add up?

78OF 100

Strong trust signals. An open formula (v1.1): every point comes from a finding above. AI traces carry no weight.

TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections10 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about 20minutes.fr

What is 20minutes.fr?

20 Minutes describes itself: “Suivez l’actualité du jour sur 20 Minutes, média gratuit et indépendant. Politique, Sport, Culture, High Tech, Ecologie… Toute l’info en continu” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is 20minutes.fr?

Its domain was registered on 11 Jul 2001, 25 years ago. See the evidence

What is 20minutes.fr built with?

It uses Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront and Fastly; we found 17 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is 20minutes.fr?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Was 20minutes.fr made with AI?

We found no traces of an AI site builder. That doesn’t prove a person built it: AI coding assistants leave no traces. See the evidence

Who is behind 20minutes.fr?

20 Minutes, named by its copyright line and Wikidata. See the evidence

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 14 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

What this scan can’t tell you
  • Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
  • How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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