Il Messaggero

ilmessaggero.it

Scanned 16 Oct 2026Fresh926 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteIl MessaggeroIl Messaggero - Il giornale di Roma, da sempre

Il Messaggero (ilmessaggero.it) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1997. It is built with Google Cloud and jQuery; 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.

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

Tranco: #5,815 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #5,483

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#5,815	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 5,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#5,483	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with jQuery, Slick and Google Cloud.

jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1269
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<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js">
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SlickJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1316
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<script src="/js/slick.min.js?m784945">
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Google CloudHostingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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via: 1.1 google
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Everything else it uses (11)

Around it: CDN, Email, Tag manager, Advertising and more.

Google Hosted LibrariesCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1269
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<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js">
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Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4b41f2068f7a3ca-SIN
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Evidence · DNS record
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ilmessaggero.it MX 3600 SMTP.GOOGLE.COM.
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Microsoft 365EmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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ilmessaggero.it TXT MS=ms65562513
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Google Tag ManagerTag managerShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 6634
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…:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f…
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Meta PixelAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 6675
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…'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js' );…
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Google Ad ManagerAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1317
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…gpt.js loadScript('https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js', function() {…
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Amazon AdsAdvertisingShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 1317
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…("apstag",window,document,"script","//c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js");…
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Evidence · DNS record
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ilmessaggero.it TXT google-site-verification=eGTYwDN_szzxXbCnsT2mWWVhmQhvE5ZHJhuzo5vLHjk
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Evidence · page source, line 6520
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…){ loadScript('https://cdn.iubenda.com/iubenda.js'); });…
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Evidence · page source, line 143
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…load_method: 'user.not-subscribed', }, jwplayer_config: '20210401', disable_video_float…
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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 registered16 Oct 1997, 28 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
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 pageLinked from the home pageFound
About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
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 detailsName: Il MessaggeroPartly
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers3 analytics and advertising tools: Meta Pixel, Google Ad Manager, Amazon AdsNoted

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 registered16 Oct 1997, 28 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.nic.it)
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 Summary

Looks like: Blog or news site.

In its own wordsIl MessaggeroIl Messaggero - Il giornale di Roma, da sempre

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q1658225: Il Messaggero, daily newspaper

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 65

<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.ilmessaggero.it/rss/home.xml">

Exhibit 3 · page source, line 1955

<a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a>

Exhibit 4 · page source, line 2030

<a href="/blog/">Blog</a>

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Who is behind it

structured dataIl Messaggero
copyright lineIl MESSAGGERO
WikidataIl Messaggero

Confirmed by 3 independent sources: structured data, copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Caltagirone Editore; based in Select Hotel, Italy.

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

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 66

"name": "Il Messaggero"

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 6474

© 2026 Il MESSAGGERO

Exhibit 3 · Wikidata

Q1658225: Il Messaggero

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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

Il Messaggero: Italian daily newspaper · daily newspaper · since 1878

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 GPTBot, Google-Extended, anthropic-ai, CCBot and 9 more to stay away.
AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-User and 2 more to stay away.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 118

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 120

User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 122

User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 124

User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 126

User-agent: Omgilibot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 128

User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /

Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 136

User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 138

User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 140

User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /

Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 142

User-agent: Claudebot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 148

User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 150

User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /

Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 152

User-agent: ImagesiftBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 130

User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /

Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 132

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 16 · robots.txt, line 134

User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 17 · robots.txt, line 144

User-agent: Claude-User · Disallow: /

Exhibit 18 · robots.txt, line 146

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 19 · robots.txt, line 162

User-agent: DuckAssistBot · 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: Il Messaggero
Language: Italian (it)
What it tells search engines: Organization

Named in its structured data

OrganizationIl Messaggero

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

86 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page18 / 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 engines10 / 10

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page18 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 28 years ago

PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list

Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections13 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · doesn’t insist on HTTPS · protective settings

ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10site name matches 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 1997; first archived in 1998.

16 Oct 1997Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.nic.it)
10 Jun 1998First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
2 Oct 2012First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
16 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

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 16 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

Questions about ilmessaggero.it

What is ilmessaggero.it?

Il Messaggero describes itself: “Il Messaggero - Il giornale di Roma, da sempre” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is ilmessaggero.it?

Its domain was registered on 16 Oct 1997, 28 years ago. See the evidence

What is ilmessaggero.it built with?

It is built with Google Cloud and jQuery; we found 14 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is ilmessaggero.it?

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

Was ilmessaggero.it 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 ilmessaggero.it?

Il Messaggero, named by its structured data, 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 16 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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