merkur.de

Scanned 14 Oct 2026Fresh924 checks

No scorethe page couldn’t be read

In WikidataMünchner Merkur: German newspaper

merkur.de looks like a blog or news site, is ranked in the top 1,000 sites and was first seen by the web archive in 1996. We couldn’t read its page: its robots.txt asks bots like ours to stay away.

This site asks bots like ours not to read its pages, so we didn’t. What public records say is below; the score needs the page.

Popularity

Website Traffic Checker

Among the top 1K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

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

Tranco: #1,270 · Chrome UX Report: Top 1,000 · Majestic Million: #3,880

Each list, with its date

Source	Says	As of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.	#1,270	list of 7 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.	Top 1,000	Aug 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0	#3,880	list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

No framework or CMS shows in the page; it uses Email, SEO, Business tools.

Everything else it uses (5)

Around it: Email, SEO, Business tools.

Microsoft 365EmailShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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merkur.de MX 10 merkur-de.mail.protection.outlook.com.
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Evidence · DNS record
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merkur.de TXT google-site-verification=1BIP2v4g3CdOn4vkSgv43JZJn6rbOiY_TjcNZV4Nq5E
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Evidence · DNS record
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merkur.de TXT facebook-domain-verification=r1r43akeu36l668an9pos239rox8zi
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Pinterest BusinessBusiness toolsShow evidenceHide evidence
Evidence · DNS record
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merkur.de TXT pinterest-site-verification=392ca7bbfa31df8933d750f3df0e5bc9
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Evidence · DNS record
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merkur.de TXT apple-domain-verification=JwIkqvcB5MXV7sXA
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Trust signals

Website Trust Checker

We couldn’t read the page; outside records are below.

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

HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted

Every signal we looked at

On the site

Contact pageFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
About pageFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
Privacy policyFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
TermsFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
Refund or returns policyFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
Contact detailsFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
Company detailsFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
Payment providersFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
TrackersFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check

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 registeredThe registry publishes no registration date, only when the record last changed (3 Jan 2024)Couldn’t checkWHOIS (whois.denic.de)
First seen online18 Dec 1996, 29 years agoNotedInternet Archive
HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
Protective settingsFollowing the site’s robots.txt, we didn’t read the pageCouldn’t check
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.

We couldn’t read the page, so there are no words of its own to quote.

From what Wikidata says it is: we couldn’t read the page.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q279832: Münchner Merkur, daily newspaper

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Who is behind it

WikidataMünchner Merkur

Wikidata: Based in Germany.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata

Q279832: Münchner Merkur

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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

Münchner Merkur: German newspaper · periodical, daily newspaper, website · since 1946
Mediengruppe Münchner Merkur tz: A German media group based in Munich. · media company

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of these items. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

AI use

All crawlers: asks every crawler without rules of its own to stay away, AI ones included.

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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 5

user-agent: * · 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: Not given
Language: Not given
What it tells search engines: None

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

We couldn’t read the page, so we couldn’t look for traces.

AI traces: Couldn’t check

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

No score: we couldn’t read the page, and outside records alone would mislead.

Why each part scored what it did

Domain history

Domain History

First archived in 1996.

18 Dec 1996First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
10 Oct 2026First scanned by usCheckAnySite
14 Oct 2026This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 31 of 31 years · see the first capture

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Changes, earlier scans and alerts

Since our previous scan: No changes since 10 Oct 2026.

Scanned	Score	AI traces	Popularity
14 Oct 2026shown above	—	None found	Top 1K
10 Oct 2026	—	None found	Top 1K

Findings can change when a site changes or when we update our signatures; each scan keeps the version it used.

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

924 checks on 14 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

More sites like this: blog or news site

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 14 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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