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Hosting vs WordPress.com

Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.

Hosting

A2 Hosting, now rebranded as hosting.com, sells web hosting plans including shared, cloud and managed hosting, along with domain registration, email, security, backups and free site migration, with 24/7 support.

WordPress.com

Hosted website builder and managed WordPress hosting service operated by Automattic, offering themes, domain registration, storage, security and support, with a free plan and paid tiers.

Company
Not stated
Not stated
Registered in
Unknown
Unknown
Online since
Unknown
Unknown
Audience
Top 10K
Top 100
Trackers on the homepage
fewer
  • A/B testing: VWO
  • Advertising and retargeting: Meta Pixel, Microsoft Advertising UET, Reddit Pixel
  • Marketing and email tracking: HubSpot, Mailchimp
  • Third-party embeds: Google Fonts
Ad trackers
None
Yes
Cookie banner
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–
Prices
No pricing page found
No pricing page found
Last price change
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–
Privacy policy changes
0
0
Terms changes
0
0
Open positions
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Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.