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Le Journal de Montréal

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteActualités, nouvelles et chroniques | Le Journal de MontréalDes nouvelles accessibles et complètes : sports, politique, spectacles, argent et judiciaire. Soyez toujours bien informé avec le Journal de Montréal.
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withEnvoy, GSAP17 technologies foundTrust signals2 of 7 foundDomain registered 29 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

Le Journal de Montréal (journaldemontreal.com) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1997. It is built with Envoy and GSAP; 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.

Tranco: #6,614 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #9,178

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#6,614list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 5,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#9,178list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with GSAP and Envoy.

  • GSAPJavaScript libraryShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 3166
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gsap/2.0.2/TweenMax.min.js">
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  • EnvoyWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 1
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Everything else it uses (15)

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

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

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 registered30 Jan 1997, 29 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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: Le Journal de MontréalPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers3 analytics and advertising tools: Umami, Google Ad Manager, Prebid.jsNoted

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 registered30 Jan 1997, 29 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings3 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 wordsActualités, nouvelles et chroniques | Le Journal de MontréalDes nouvelles accessibles et complètes : sports, politique, spectacles, argent et judiciaire. Soyez toujours bien informé avec le Journal de Montréal.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q3086280: Le Journal de Montréal, daily newspaper
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 44
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.journaldemontreal.com/rss.xml">
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
Actualités, nouvelles et chroniques | Le Journal de Montréal · Des nouvelles accessibles et complètes : sports, politique, spectacles, argent et judiciaire. Soy
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataLe Journal de Montréal
  • copyright lineLe Journal de Montréal Inc
  • WikidataLe Journal de Montréal

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

Wikidata: Owned by Québecor; based in Montreal, Canada; founded by Pierre Péladeau.

Its X account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 215
"name": "Le Journal de Montréal"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 4232
© 2026 Le Journal de Montréal Inc. Tous droits réservés.
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q3086280: Le Journal de Montréal
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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

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 CCBot, Claude-Web, GPTBot, anthropic-ai and 1 more to stay away.
  • AI assistants: asks ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User to stay away.
Show evidence (9)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 317
User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 323
User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 326
User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 329
User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 335
User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 320
User-agent: ChatGPT-User · Disallow: /
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 337
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 340
User-agent: PerplexityBot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 342
User-agent: Perplexity-User · 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
Le Journal de Montréal
Language
Not given
What it tells search engines
Organization

Named in its structured data

  • OrganizationLe Journal de Montréal

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

81 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

81OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · no privacy policy link · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 29 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · 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 1997; first archived in 1997.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
  4. This scanCheckAnySite

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

  1. 1997: captured
  2. 1998: captured
  3. 1999: captured
  4. 2000: captured
  5. 2001: captured
  6. 2002: captured
  7. 2003: captured
  8. 2004: captured
  9. 2005: captured
  10. 2006: captured
  11. 2007: captured
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  14. 2010: captured
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  18. 2014: captured
  19. 2015: captured
  20. 2016: captured
  21. 2017: captured
  22. 2018: captured
  23. 2019: captured
  24. 2020: captured
  25. 2021: captured
  26. 2022: captured
  27. 2023: captured
  28. 2024: captured
  29. 2025: captured
  30. 2026: captured
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

927 checks on 17 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

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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 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#6,614list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#9,178list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

JavaScript library
GSAP
Web server
Envoy

And 15 more around it (CDN, DNS, Email, Analytics), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

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Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

  • Contact pageFound
  • About pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNot found
  • TermsFound
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsNot found
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupPartly
  • First certificateNoted
  • 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 does it add up?

81OF 100

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines5 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Questions about journaldemontreal.com

What is journaldemontreal.com?

Le Journal de Montréal describes itself: “Des nouvelles accessibles et complètes : sports, politique, spectacles, argent et judiciaire. Soyez toujours bien informé avec le Journal de Montréal.” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is journaldemontreal.com?

Its domain was registered on 30 Jan 1997, 29 years ago. See the evidence

What is journaldemontreal.com built with?

It is built with Envoy and GSAP; we found 17 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is journaldemontreal.com?

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

Was journaldemontreal.com 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 journaldemontreal.com?

Le Journal de Montréal, 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 17 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 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.
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