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Meduza

meduza.io

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In its own wordsLooks like: Blog or news siteMeduza — НовостиНовости, репортажи, расследования, разборы, аналитика, фотографии, подкасты, фильмы, игры и книги. Это «Медуза», крупнейшее независимое издание на русском языке
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withFirebase14 technologies foundTrust signals2 of 7 foundDomain registered 12 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

Meduza (meduza.io) looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2014. It is built with Firebase; 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: #6,641 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #3,201

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#6,641list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#3,201list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Firebase.

  • FirebaseBackendShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 158
    …hJHSn8zueY","authDomain":"meduza-flutter.firebaseapp.com","projectId":"meduza-flutter","storageB…
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Everything else it uses (13)

Around it: CDN, Security, DNS, Email 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 registered21 Jul 2014, 12 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    "email": "e•••@meduza.io"
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  • Privacy policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 page, and the page opensFound
  • About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Privacy policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    "email": "e•••@meduza.io"
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  • Company detailsName: MeduzaPartly
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers2 analytics and advertising tools: Google Analytics, Cloudflare Web AnalyticsNoted

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 registered21 Jul 2014, 12 years agoNotedWHOIS (whois.nic.io)
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings2 of 6 in placePartly
  • Email protectionProtected against forged emailFoundDNS 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 wordsMeduza — НовостиНовости, репортажи, расследования, разборы, аналитика, фотографии, подкасты, фильмы, игры и книги. Это «Медуза», крупнейшее независимое издание на русском языке

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

Also has signs of: Software or app.

Show evidence (4)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q18340732: Meduza, news website
Exhibit 3 · page source, line 1
<link rel="alternate" href="/rss/all">
Exhibit 4 · its own title or description
Meduza — Новости · Meduza · Новости, репортажи, расследования, разборы, аналитика, фотографии, подкасты, фильмы, игры и книги. Это «Медуза», крупнейшее независи
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataMeduza
  • copyright lineMeduza
  • WikidataMeduza

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

Wikidata: Based in Riga, Latvia; founded by group of humans and Galina Timchenko.

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

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 1
"name": "Meduza"
Exhibit 2 · page source, line 210
© Meduza, 2026
Exhibit 3 · Wikidata
Q18340732: Meduza
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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

  • Meduza: Russian bilingual online newspaper headquartered in Riga · news website, mobile app · since 2014

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
Meduza
Language
Russian (ru)
What it tells search engines
WebSite, NewsMediaOrganization, ItemList

Named in its structured data

  • News Media OrganizationMeduza

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

84 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

84OF 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 protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page16 / 30contact page linked · email and phone given · no privacy policy link · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 12 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 2014; first archived in 2014.

  1. Domain registeredWHOIS (whois.nic.io)
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 13 of 13 years · see the first capture

  1. 2014: captured
  2. 2015: captured
  3. 2016: captured
  4. 2017: captured
  5. 2018: captured
  6. 2019: captured
  7. 2020: captured
  8. 2021: captured
  9. 2022: captured
  10. 2023: captured
  11. 2024: captured
  12. 2025: captured
  13. 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

926 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#6,641list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 10,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#3,201list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

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What is it built with?

Backend
Firebase

And 13 more around it (CDN, Security, DNS, Email), 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
  • TermsNot found
  • Refund or returns policyNot found
  • Contact detailsFound
  • Company detailsPartly
  • Payment providersNoted
  • TrackersNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersPartly
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesNot found
  • Security contactCouldn’t check

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?

84OF 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 protections13 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

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Questions about meduza.io

What is meduza.io?

Meduza describes itself: “Новости, репортажи, расследования, разборы, аналитика, фотографии, подкасты, фильмы, игры и книги. Это «Медуза», крупнейшее независимое издание на русском языке” It looks like a blog or news site. See the evidence

How old is meduza.io?

Its domain was registered on 21 Jul 2014, 12 years ago. See the evidence

What is meduza.io built with?

It is built with Firebase; we found 14 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is meduza.io?

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

Was meduza.io 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 meduza.io?

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

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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.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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