animenewsnetwork.com
Anime News Network
Who runs Anime News Network, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest anime news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- MyAnimeList
Measured from Anime News Network’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Anime News Network01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Anime News Network
Anime News Network animenewsnetwork.com
Wikidata: English/French website about anime, manga, and Japanese culture
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Anime News Network 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.
tracker that follows visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Anime News Network
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Anime News Network, thumbs down if it isn’t.
8 of the 60 sites closest to Anime News Network match.
- 01
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Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close - 02
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Very close - 03
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 04
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 05
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Very close - 06
Digg - News, before it trends
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Very close - 07
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 08
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Anime News Network’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Anime News Network uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Anime News Network 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Anime News Network’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=b420df0d48762dfdbd5ff34f1a68cad3d4cc246c9f94dff7e…
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577ce01edfc0d22-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ian.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=5VIG_aoTgJatbEBD6-VIynSPshqsbxo0rjyB52nN_bw
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Amazon SES · not on animenewsnetwork.com 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on animenewsnetwork.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on animenewsnetwork.com 8/20
- Google Analytics 8/20
- PHP · not on animenewsnetwork.com 8/20
- nginx · not on animenewsnetwork.com 7/20
- WordPress · not on animenewsnetwork.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on animenewsnetwork.com 7/20
- jQuery 6/20
- jsDelivr · not on animenewsnetwork.com 5/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on animenewsnetwork.com 5/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on animenewsnetwork.com 4/20