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Who runs A List Apart, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web design publication alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Smashing Magazine

Measured from A List Apart’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs A List Apart

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For people who make websites

Wikidata: website

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What A List Apart tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 14 alternatives below has fewer; 13 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on A List Apart’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to A List Apart

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to A List Apart match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what A List Apart adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 7 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,217
Vector: 384-d
Query: 194 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-includes/
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://alistapart.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Email delivery: Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 ip4:216.243.141.0/24 mx ptr include:aspmx.googlemail.com inclu…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=LKtHxjOEaXtKuQMqwpru2zSRHBgdb80rCGow8ZkpDIY

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.