lemonde.fr

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lemonde.fr is ranked #702 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), up 10 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Aug 2, 2005, 21 years, 2 months ago, through NAMESHIELD, and is paid up until Jun 9, 2027. It is served through Fastly.

Global rank

#702

▲ 6 this week

Domain age

21 years

since Aug 2, 2005

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

96/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#702 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #658.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where lemonde.fr sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Aug 2, 2005 (21 years, 2 months ago)
Expires: Jun 9, 2027
Registrar: NAMESHIELD
Name servers: ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b4.googledomains.com
DNSSEC: —

From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 1, 2026.

Technology stack

CDN

Fastly

Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.

Homepage SEO check

Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.

96/100

https://www.lemonde.fr/

Le Monde.fr - Actualités et Infos en France et dans le monde

Le Monde.fr - 1er site d'information. Les articles du journal et toute l'actualité en continu : International, France, Société, Economie, Culture, Environnement, Blogs ...

21 passed · 2 warnings · 0 failed

Content

✓Title60 characters
!Meta description171 characters — aim for 50–170
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings69 H2 headings
✓Image alt textAll 443 images have alt text
✓Content lengthAbout 12,282 words

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.lemonde.fr
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributefr
ihreflang4 language alternates
✓Structured dataNewsMediaOrganization

Social sharing

✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
✓Twitter / X cardsummary

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingUTF-8

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
✓Content-Security-PolicySet
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
!Referrer-PolicyNot set

Server response

Final URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/
HTTP status: 200
Server: —
Response time: 702 ms (first byte 664 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 1.9 MB
Compression: gzip

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Questions about lemonde.fr

How popular is lemonde.fr?

lemonde.fr is #702 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is lemonde.fr?

lemonde.fr was registered on Aug 2, 2005, which makes the domain 21 years, 2 months old.

What is lemonde.fr built with?

We detected Fastly on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of lemonde.fr?

NAMESHIELD, according to the registry's RDAP record.