lindependant.fr

Scanned 18 Oct 2026Fresh928 checks

In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteActualités et infos de Perpignan et sa région - À la une - lindependant.frToute l’actualité des Pyrénées-Orientales (Perpignan) et de l’Aude (Carcassonne, Narbonne) en direct, photos et vidéos avec L’Indépendant. Retrouvez toutes les informations...

lindependant.fr looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2001. It is built with Sign in with Google and Varnish; 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: #7,447 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #16,137

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#7,447	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	#16,137	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Sign in with Google and Varnish.

Sign in with GoogleBackendShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 99
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<script src="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/client">
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VarnishWeb serverShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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x-varnish: LDIRVP-1 LDIRVPS-1 869797427 138606263
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Everything else it uses (6)

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

CloudflareCDNShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · response header
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cf-ray: a4cb2374ae0175ca-SEA
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Gandi DNSDNSShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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lindependant.fr NS ns-233-c.gandi.net.
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Google WorkspaceEmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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lindependant.fr MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
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Google Tag ManagerTag managerShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · page source, line 7
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….async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f…
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Evidence · DNS record
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lindependant.fr TXT google-site-verification=Y6-K5JCIfgoxgRzsD86wTa7KXcdzIpv553U9CfNkVaE
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Meta BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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lindependant.fr TXT facebook-domain-verification=uqkapqxqtv2s6530avm4oihrixqos4
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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 registered13 Jun 2001, 25 years agoNoted
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Contact detailsNo email or phone on the home pageNot found
Privacy policyNot linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold itPartly
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 policyNot linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold itPartly
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: L'IndépendantPartly
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 registered13 Jun 2001, 25 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 et infos de Perpignan et sa région - À la une - lindependant.frToute l’actualité des Pyrénées-Orientales (Perpignan) et de l’Aude (Carcassonne, Narbonne) en direct, photos et vidéos avec L’Indépendant. Retrouvez toutes les informations...

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence

Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q2269524: L'Indépendant, newspaper

Exhibit 2 · page source, line 42

<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.lindependant.fr/rss.xml">

Exhibit 3 · its own title or description

Actualités et infos de Perpignan et sa région - À la une - lindependant.fr · lindependant.fr · Toute l’actualité des Pyrénées-Orientales (Perpignan) et de l’Aud

Exhibit 4 · page source, line 969

<a href="https://www.lindependant.fr/articles/2026">Archives</a>

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Who is behind it

structured dataL'Indépendant
WikidataL'Indépendant

Wikidata: Based in Perpignan, France.

Its X account is the one Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 65

"name": "L&#039;Indépendant"

Exhibit 2 · Wikidata

Q2269524: L'Indépendant

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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

L'Indépendant: French regional newspaper, mainly popular in Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales departments. · newspaper, periodical · since 1846

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, anthropic-ai, Bytespider, CCBot and 10 more to stay away.
AI assistants: asks PerplexityBot to stay away.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 29

User-agent: Amazonbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 38

User-agent: anthropic-ai · Disallow: /

Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 95

User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /

Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 98

User-agent: CCBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 125

User-agent: Claude-Web · Disallow: /

Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 128

User-agent: ClaudeBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 134

User-agent: cohere-ai · Disallow: /

Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 158

User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 209

User-agent: FacebookBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 233

User-agent: Google-Extended · Disallow: /

Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 236

User-agent: GPTBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 425

User-Agent: omgili · Disallow: /

Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 428

User-Agent: omgilibot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 704

User-agent: YouBot · Disallow: /

Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 440

User-Agent: PerplexityBot · 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: lindependant.fr
Language: French (fr)
What it tells search engines: WebSite, Organization

Named in its structured data

OrganizationL'Indépendant

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

90 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

TransparencyContact, policies and about page20 / 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 engines10 / 10

Why each part scored what it did

TransparencyContact, policies and about page20 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy: not linked on its own; a legal page is linked, which may hold it · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked

Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 25 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 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 2001; first archived in 1998.

10 Feb 1998First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
13 Jun 2001Domain registeredRDAP
18 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 23 of 29 years · see the first capture

1998: captured
1999: no capture
2000: no capture
2001: no capture
2002: no capture
2003: captured
2004: captured
2005: captured
2006: captured
2007: captured
2008: captured
2009: no capture
2010: no capture
2011: captured
2012: captured
2013: captured
2014: captured
2015: captured
2016: captured
2017: captured
2018: captured
2019: captured
2020: captured
2021: captured
2022: captured
2023: captured
2024: captured
2025: captured
2026: captured

No captures 1999–2002: the site may have been offline or parked then, or the archive didn’t visit.

The web archive saw this address on 10 Feb 1998, before its current registration on 13 Jun 2001. It was probably registered again, possibly by a new owner.

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 18 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 lindependant.fr

What is lindependant.fr?

lindependant.fr describes itself: “Toute l’actualité des Pyrénées-Orientales (Perpignan) et de l’Aude (Carcassonne, Narbonne) en direct, photos et vidéos avec L’Indépendant. Retrouvez toutes les informations...” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is lindependant.fr?

Its domain was registered on 13 Jun 2001, 25 years ago. See the evidence

What is lindependant.fr built with?

It is built with Sign in with Google and Varnish; we found 8 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is lindependant.fr?

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

Was lindependant.fr 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 lindependant.fr?

Its structured data names L'Indépendant. 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 18 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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