InterPals

interpals.net

Scanned 19 Oct 2026Fresh928 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Forum or communityPen Pals & Language Exchange Worldwide | InterPalsFind pen pals and language exchange partners in 180+ countries. Chat with native speakers and make international friends. Free since 1998.

InterPals (interpals.net) looks like a forum or community, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1999. It is built with Tailwind CSS, 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: #7,766 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #54,846

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#7,766	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	#54,846	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with jQuery, jQuery UI and Alpine.js and 2 more.

jQueryJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 109
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<script src="/js/vendor/jquery-1.10.2.min.js">
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Evidence · page source, line 4645
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<script src="/js/vendor/jquery-ui-1.10.3.min.js">
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Evidence · page source, line 214
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6 attributes starting with x-data
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Tailwind CSSCSS frameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · stylesheet /assets/10443fd490ce4d207587/interpals.10443fd490ce4d207587.min.css
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…der-spacing-x:0;--tw-border-spacing-y:0;--tw-translate-x:0;--tw-translate-y:0;--tw-rotate:0;--…
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Evidence · response header
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via: 1.1 google
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Everything else it uses (9)

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

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Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4d0a0b53d057670-SEA
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Cloudflare DNSDNSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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interpals.net NS cody.ns.cloudflare.com.
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Evidence · DNS record
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interpals.net MX 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
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Evidence · DNS record

interpals.net TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:amazonses.com ip4:104.131.3.230 ip4:165.22.69.157 ip4:178.128.57.255 ip4:165.22.18.105 ip4:104.196.10.227 ~all

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Evidence · DNS record

interpals.net TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:amazonses.com ip4:104.131.3.230 ip4:165.22.69.157 ip4:178.128.57.255 ip4:165.22.18.105 ip4:104.196.10.227 ~all

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Evidence · page source, line 4649
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<script src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-0QW3XVG74P">
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Evidence · page source, line 426
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…t(s); js.id = id; js.src = "https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, f…
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Google FontsFontsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 107
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<link rel="preload" href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap">
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Evidence · page source, line 1255
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48 class names starting with fa-
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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

3 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

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

Domain registered5 Apr 1999, 27 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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
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 detailsName: InterPalsPartly
Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, Facebook SDKNoted

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 Apr 1999, 27 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 Summary

Looks like: Forum or community.

In its own wordsPen Pals & Language Exchange Worldwide | InterPalsFind pen pals and language exchange partners in 180+ countries. Chat with native speakers and make international friends. Free since 1998.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q140632366: InterPals, social networking service

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Who is behind it

structured dataInterPals
copyright lineInterPals
WikidataInterPals

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

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 25

"name": "InterPals"

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 4631

© 2026 InterPals

Exhibit 3 · Wikidata

Q140632366: InterPals

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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

InterPals: penpal and language-exchange social networking website · website, social networking service · since 1998

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.

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: InterPals
Language: English (en-US)
What it tells search engines: Organization, WebSite, FAQPage, Question

Named in its structured data

OrganizationInterPals

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

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

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 27 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 · always uses HTTPS · no 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 1999.

5 Apr 1999Domain registeredRDAP
19 Oct 2026This 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

928 checks on 19 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 interpals.net

What is interpals.net?

InterPals describes itself: “Find pen pals and language exchange partners in 180+ countries. Chat with native speakers and make international friends. Free since 1998.” It looks like a forum or community. See the evidence

How old is interpals.net?

Its domain was registered on 5 Apr 1999, 27 years ago. See the evidence

What is interpals.net built with?

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

How popular is interpals.net?

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

Was interpals.net 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 interpals.net?

InterPals, named by its structured data, its copyright line and Wikidata. See the evidence

More sites like this: forum or community

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 19 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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