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El País

elpais.com

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteEL PAÍS: el periódico globalNoticias de última hora sobre la actualidad en España y el mundo: política, economía, deportes, cultura, sociedad, tecnología, gente, opinión, viajes, moda, televisión, los blogs y las firmas de EL PAÍS. Además especiales, vídeos, fotos, audios, gráficos, entrevistas, promociones y todos los servicios de EL PAÍS.
PopularityTop 1KBuilt withSign in with Google, OpenResty9 technologies foundTrust signals0 of 7 foundDomain registered 25 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

El País (elpais.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 2001. It is built with Sign in with Google and OpenResty; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #677 · Chrome UX Report: Top 1,000 · Majestic Million: #482

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#677list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 1,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#482list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Sign in with Google and OpenResty.

  • Sign in with GoogleBackendShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 1
    <script src="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/client">
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  • OpenRestyWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    server: openresty
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Everything else it uses (7)

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

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

Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

0 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

  • Domain registered5 Mar 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 policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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
  • TrackersNone found on the home pageNoted

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 registered5 Mar 2001, 25 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS, but plain HTTP doesn’t send visitors therePartly
  • Protective settingsNone in placeNot found
  • 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 wordsEL PAÍS: el periódico globalNoticias de última hora sobre la actualidad en España y el mundo: política, economía, deportes, cultura, sociedad, tecnología, gente, opinión, viajes, moda, televisión, los blogs y las firmas de EL PAÍS. Además especiales, vídeos, fotos, audios, gráficos, entrevistas, promociones y todos los servicios de EL PAÍS.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q50009: El País, daily newspaper
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 1
<link rel="alternate" href="https://feeds.elpais.com/mrss-s/pages/ep/site/elpais.com/portada">
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
EL PAÍS: el periódico global · El País · Noticias de última hora sobre la actualidad en España y el mundo: política, economía, deportes, cultura, sociedad, tecn
Exhibit 4 · page source, line 34
<a href="https://plus.elpais.com/newsletters/lnp/1/2/#?prm=nwl_CTA_home_diaria">NEWSLETTER DIARIA</a>
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Who is behind it

  • WikidataEl País

Wikidata: Owned by Liberty Acquisition Holdings and Grupo PRISA; based in Madrid, Spain; founded by José Ortega Spottorno, Jesús de Polanco and Juan Luis Cebrián.

Its X, YouTube and Instagram accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q50009: El País
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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

  • El País: Spanish newspaper · daily newspaper · since 1976

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 Amazonbot, Bytespider, ClaudeBot, CCBot and 2 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot and 5 more to stay away.
Show evidence (15)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 11
User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 29
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 35
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 59
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 62
User-agent: DeepSeekBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 450
User-agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 17
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 20
User-agent: Amzn-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 38
User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 41
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 65
User-agent: DuckAssistBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 74
User-agent: MistralAI-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 200
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 203
User-agent: Perplexity-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 372
User-agent: Exabot · 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
El País
Language
Spanish (es-ES)
What it tells search engines
BreadcrumbList, WebSite, WPHeader, WPFooter, SiteNavigationElement, ItemList

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

62 of 100: some trust signals.

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

62OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page4 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections8 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page4 / 30no contact page link · email and phone not both given · no privacy policy link · no terms link · 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 1K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections8 / 15loads over HTTPS · doesn’t send visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on HTTPS · no protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 10site name differs from the domain · describes itself · tells 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; first archived in 1996.

  1. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  2. Domain registeredRDAP
  3. First scanned by usCheckAnySite
  4. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 30 of 31 years · see the first capture

  1. 1996: captured
  2. 1997: no capture
  3. 1998: captured
  4. 1999: captured
  5. 2000: captured
  6. 2001: captured
  7. 2002: captured
  8. 2003: captured
  9. 2004: captured
  10. 2005: captured
  11. 2006: captured
  12. 2007: captured
  13. 2008: captured
  14. 2009: captured
  15. 2010: captured
  16. 2011: captured
  17. 2012: captured
  18. 2013: captured
  19. 2014: captured
  20. 2015: captured
  21. 2016: captured
  22. 2017: captured
  23. 2018: captured
  24. 2019: captured
  25. 2020: captured
  26. 2021: captured
  27. 2022: captured
  28. 2023: captured
  29. 2024: captured
  30. 2025: captured
  31. 2026: captured

The web archive saw this address on 19 Dec 1996, before its current registration on 5 Mar 2001. It was probably registered again, possibly by a new owner.

Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
No changes since 10 Oct 2026.

What the page shows (AI traces, technologies, title, score) wasn’t compared: the site’s bot protection turned our scanner away last time.

ScannedScoreAI tracesPopularity
shown above62None foundTop 1K
—None foundTop 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

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.

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How popular is it?

Top 1KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#677list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 1,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#482list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Backend
Sign in with Google
Web server
OpenResty

And 7 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, SEO), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageNot found
  • About pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNot found
  • TermsNot found
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsNot found
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSPartly
  • Security headersNot found
  • 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?

62OF 100

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page4 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections8 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

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

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  • 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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