archive.org

Scanned 14 Oct 2026Fresh925 checks

In its own wordsInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1995. It is built with nginx; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

The page shows little text before its JavaScript runs, so we also read its own scripts (/offshoot_assets/index-B5yYVZV4.js, /offshoot_assets/vendor/lit/polyfill-support.js) for traces.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M

Tranco: #145 · Chrome UX Report: Top 1,000 · Majestic Million: #61

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#145	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 1,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#61	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with nginx.

nginxWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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server: nginx/1.31.3
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Everything else it uses (5)

Around it: Email, Marketing, SEO, Business tools.

Google WorkspaceEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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archive.org MX 100 smtp.google.com.
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Microsoft 365EmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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archive.org TXT MS=ms84122558
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Evidence · DNS record

archive.org TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:207.241.224.6/32 ip4:207.241.224.2/32 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.braintreegateway.com include:_spf.salesforce.com -all

Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 12
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<meta name="google-site-verification" content="Q2YSouphkkgHkFNP7FgAkc4TmBs1Gmag3uGNndb53B8">
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AtlassianBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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archive.org TXT atlassian-domain-verification=AayvCFYrHZxErANHNVvoXR/RxRkCrZHgMCRDL2lfbyF3JFND0IW5NQyCOmgEIKiS
```
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Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

1 of 1 trust signals found on the home page.

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

Domain registered14 Dec 1995, 30 years agoNoted
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS, but plain HTTP doesn’t send visitors therePartly
Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted

Every signal we looked at

On the site

Contact pageThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
About pageNamed in the app’s own codeFound
Privacy policyThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
TermsThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
Refund or returns policyThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
Contact detailsThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
Company detailsThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
Payment providersThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check
TrackersThe page shows little text before its JavaScript runsCouldn’t check

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 registered14 Dec 1995, 30 years agoNoteddomain registry
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS, but plain HTTP doesn’t send visitors therePartly
Protective settings3 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

It calls itself “Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine”.

In its own wordsInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

The page doesn’t show enough to say what kind of site it is (a shop, a blog, an app…).

Who is behind it

WikidataInternet Archive

Wikidata: Owned by Brewster Kahle; based in Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, United States; founded by Brewster Kahle.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q461: Internet Archive

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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

Internet Archive: U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive · digital library, nonprofit organization, web archive · since 1996
Archive.org: main catalog website of the Internet Archive · website, catalog
American Journalism: journal · society journal, scientific journal · since 1983

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

AI use

AI training: doesn’t ask AI training crawlers to stay away.
AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name: Not given
Language: English (en)
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

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

How we test it · Every builder we know · How to tell if a site was built with AI

Score breakdown

Site Score

89 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page4 / 4

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections12 / 15

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 10

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page4 / 4contact page link: couldn’t check · email and phone: couldn’t check · privacy policy link: couldn’t check · terms link: couldn’t check · refund policy link: couldn’t check · about page linked

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 30 years ago

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K in a popularity list

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections12 / 15loads over HTTPS · doesn’t send visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · protective settings

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 10site name matches the domain · no description · 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 1995; first archived in 1997.

14 Dec 1995Domain registeredRDAP
26 Jan 1997First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
10 Oct 2026First scanned by usCheckAnySite
14 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

Changes, earlier scans and alerts

Since our previous scan: No changes since 10 Oct 2026.

Scanned	Score	AI traces	Popularity
14 Oct 2026shown above	89	None found	Top 1K
10 Oct 2026	89	None found	Top 1K

Findings can change when a site changes or when we update our signatures; each scan keeps the version it used.

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

925 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

More sites near it in popularity

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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