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In its own wordsFree eBooks | Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
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Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org) is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was registered in 1996. It is built with PayPal; we found no traces of an AI site builder.
Popularity
Website Traffic CheckerAmong the top 1K sites.
A popularity band, not a visit count.
Top 1KTop 10KTop 100KTop 1MOutside top 1M
Tranco: #2,537 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #634
Each list, with its date
| Source | Says | As of |
|---|---|---|
| TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily. | #2,537 | list of 27 Oct 2026 |
| Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly. | Top 10,000 | Sep 2026 |
| Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0 | #634 | list of 28 Oct 2026 |
Technology
Tech Stack CheckerBuilt with PayPal.
PayPalPaymentsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 75Popular sites using PayPal Is this wrong? Report it…class="donatelink" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="new">
Everything else it uses (3)
Around it: CDN, Email, SEO.
CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response headerPopular sites using Cloudflare Is this wrong? Report itcf-ray: a51ac6bd6a8bee9f-MXP
Google WorkspaceEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS recordPopular sites using Google Workspace Is this wrong? Report itgutenberg.org MX 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
Google Search ConsoleSEOShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 10Popular sites using Google Search Console Is this wrong? Report it<meta name="google-site-verification" content="wucOEvSnj5kP3Ts_36OfP64laakK-1mVTg-ptrGC9io">
Trust signals
Website Trust Checker5 of 8 trust signals found on the home page.
Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.
- Domain registered1 Dec 1996, 29 years agoNoted
- HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
- Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
- Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
- 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 page, and the page opensFound
- About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
- Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
- 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 providersPayPalFound
- 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 registered1 Dec 1996, 29 years agoNoteddomain registry
- HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
- Protective settings1 of 6 in placePartly
- Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS 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 SummaryIt calls itself “Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg”.
In its own wordsFree eBooks | Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
The page doesn’t show enough to say what kind of site it is (a shop, a blog, an app…).
Who is behind it
- WikidataProject Gutenberg
Wikidata: Based in United States; founded by Michael S. Hart.
Its Facebook, Mastodon and Bluesky accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.
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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
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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
- Project Gutenberg: free digital library · website, MediaWiki wiki, ebook distribution platform · since 1971
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: 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
- Project Gutenberg
- Language
- English (en-US)
- 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 DetectorNo 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.
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Score breakdown
Site Score87 of 100: strong trust signals.
How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines7 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · takes payments without a refund policy link · about page linked
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 29 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 1K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends 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 HistoryRegistered in 1996.
- Domain registeredRDAP
- 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
929 checks on 28 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.
Questions about gutenberg.org
What is gutenberg.org?
Project Gutenberg describes itself: “Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.” See the evidence
How old is gutenberg.org?
Its domain was registered on 1 Dec 1996, 29 years ago. See the evidence
What is gutenberg.org built with?
It is built with PayPal; we found 4 technologies in all. See the evidence
How popular is gutenberg.org?
It is among the top 1,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence
Was gutenberg.org 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 gutenberg.org?
Wikidata names Project Gutenberg. See the evidence
More sites near it in popularity
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- Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
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