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myheritage.com

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89OF 100
How it adds up →
In its own wordsLooks like: Forum or communityFree Family Tree, Genealogy, Family History, and DNA TestingCreate your family tree. Take a MyHeritage DNA test for ancestry and genetic testing. Access 41.2 billion historical records for genealogy research.
PopularityTop 10KBuilt withSign in with Google, PHP26 technologies foundTrust signals3 of 7 foundDomain registered 25 years agoBuilt with AI? None foundNo traces found

MyHeritage (myheritage.com) looks like a forum or community, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 2001. It is built with Sign in with Google and PHP; 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: #5,334 · Chrome UX Report: Top 5,000 · Majestic Million: #5,610

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#5,334list 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#5,610list of 8 Oct 2026

Technology

Tech Stack Checker

Built with Sign in with Google and PHP.

  • Sign in with GoogleBackendShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 140
    <script src="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/client?onload=googleOnLoad">
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  • PHPLanguageShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    set-cookie: PHPSESSID=…
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Everything else it uses (24)

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

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

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 registered9 Oct 2001, 25 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 pageLinked from the home pageFound
  • About pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • 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 detailsNo company name or address foundNot found
  • 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 registered9 Oct 2001, 25 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings4 of 6 in placeFound
  • 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: Forum or community.

In its own wordsFree Family Tree, Genealogy, Family History, and DNA TestingCreate your family tree. Take a MyHeritage DNA test for ancestry and genetic testing. Access 41.2 billion historical records for genealogy research.

Our reading of the page, medium confidence.

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Exhibit 1 · Wikidata
Q589757: MyHeritage, social networking service
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Who is behind it

  • copyright lineMyHeritage Ltd
  • WikidataMyHeritage

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: copyright line and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Owned by Francisco Partners; based in Or Yehuda, Israel; founded by Gilad Japhet.

Its Facebook and X accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 276
Copyright © 2026 MyHeritage Ltd.
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q589757: MyHeritage
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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

  • MyHeritage: online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services · social networking service, business, commercial organization · since 2003
  • Familty Tree Builder: genealogical software · genealogy software

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.

Find them on

The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: asks Bytespider, Diffbot and Brightbot to stay away.
  • AI training: names anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, Amazonbot, Claude-Web and 8 more with rules for some pages.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.
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Exhibit 1 · robots.txt, line 412
User-agent: Bytespider · Disallow: /
Exhibit 2 · robots.txt, line 439
User-agent: Diffbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 3 · robots.txt, line 507
User-agent: Brightbot · Disallow: /
Exhibit 4 · robots.txt, line 367
User-agent: Anthropic-ai
Exhibit 5 · robots.txt, line 369
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Exhibit 6 · robots.txt, line 370
User-agent: Amazonbot
Exhibit 7 · robots.txt, line 371
User-agent: Claude-Web
Exhibit 8 · robots.txt, line 372
User-agent: Cohere-ai
Exhibit 9 · robots.txt, line 373
User-agent: GPTBot
Exhibit 10 · robots.txt, line 375
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Exhibit 11 · robots.txt, line 377
User-agent: YouBot
Exhibit 12 · robots.txt, line 385
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Exhibit 13 · robots.txt, line 386
User-agent: Google-Extended
Exhibit 14 · robots.txt, line 390
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Exhibit 15 · robots.txt, line 532
User-agent: meta-externalagent
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What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
MyHeritage
Language
English (EN)
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

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

89 of 100: strong trust signals.

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

89OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 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 engines7 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page22 / 30contact page linked · email and phone not both given · privacy policy linked · terms linked · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · no about page link
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 engines7 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · doesn’t tell 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 2002.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. First captured by the web archiveInternet Archive
  3. This scanCheckAnySite

In the web archive: captured in 25 of 25 years · see the first capture

  1. 2002: captured
  2. 2003: captured
  3. 2004: captured
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  5. 2006: captured
  6. 2007: captured
  7. 2008: captured
  8. 2009: captured
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  20. 2021: captured
  21. 2022: captured
  22. 2023: captured
  23. 2024: captured
  24. 2025: captured
  25. 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 15 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

Quick look

Built with AI?

None foundWe found no AI builder traces.

“None found” never means “made by a person”: coding assistants leave no traces.

All the evidence →

Related

Quick look

How popular is it?

Top 10KBy the best of 3 public lists.

  • Tranco#5,334list of 7 Oct 2026
  • Chrome UX ReportTop 5,000Aug 2026
  • Majestic Million#5,610list of 8 Oct 2026

A popularity band, never a visit count.

The popularity section →

Related

Quick look

What is it built with?

Backend
Sign in with Google
Language
PHP

And 24 more around it (CDN, Security, DNS, Email), in the section.

Each with its evidence →

Related

Quick look

Which trust signals does it show?

On the site

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

Behind the site

  • Security filterNoted
  • Domain registeredNoted
  • HTTPSFound
  • Security headersFound
  • Software versionsNoted
  • NetworkNoted
  • Email setupFound
  • First certificateCouldn’t check
  • DNSSECNot found
  • Certificate authoritiesFound
  • 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 has it changed? →
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How does it add up?

89OF 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 page22 / 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 engines7 / 10
Why each part scored what it did →

Related

Questions about myheritage.com

What is myheritage.com?

MyHeritage describes itself: “Create your family tree. Take a MyHeritage DNA test for ancestry and genetic testing. Access 41.2 billion historical records for genealogy research.” It looks like a forum or community. See the evidence

How old is myheritage.com?

Its domain was registered on 9 Oct 2001, 25 years ago. See the evidence

What is myheritage.com built with?

It is built with Sign in with Google and PHP; we found 26 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is myheritage.com?

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

Was myheritage.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 myheritage.com?

MyHeritage Ltd, named by 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 15 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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