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AOL

Who runs AOL, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web portal alternatives.

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

Measured from AOL’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 AOL

AOL aol.com

Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

Wikidata: American web portal and online service provider

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

02 · Privacy

What AOL 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 19 alternatives below has fewer; 16 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found

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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to AOL

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to AOL, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to AOL match.

  1. 01
    MSN msn.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    MSN

    collection of Internet sites by Microsoft

    Compare MSN with AOL →
  2. 02
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

    Compare Lycos with AOL →
  3. 03
    Excite エキサイト excite.co.jp Top 10K Japanese 1 tracker

    Excite エキサイト

    エキサイトは、話題のニュースや人気ブログ、格安プロバイダなどを展開する便利で安心のポータルサイトです。芸能や音楽、料理や育児の情報も幅広く発信しています。

    Compare Excite エキサイト with AOL →
  4. 04
    Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Digg - News, before it trends

    See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

    Compare Digg with AOL →
  5. 05
    Google google.com Top 100 German No trackers

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

    Compare Google with AOL →
  6. 06
    TIME time.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

    Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

    Compare TIME with AOL →
  7. 07
    Onet onet.pl Top 1K Polish No trackers

    Onet – Jesteś na bieżąco

    Onet: codzienne źródło informacji milionów Polaków - wiadomości z kraju i ze świata 24/7, pogoda, sport, biznes, moto, rozrywka. Bądź na bieżąco z Onet!

    Compare Onet with AOL →
  8. 08
    Rambler rambler.ru Top 10K Russian 1 tracker

    Рамблер — медийный портал: новости России и мира, почта, поиск, погода

    Рамблер — последние новости сегодня, развлекательные и коммуникационные сервисы: поиск информации в интернете, электронная почта, гороскопы, прогноз погоды, телепрограмма

    Compare Rambler with AOL →
  9. 09
    Interia interia.pl Top 10K Polish 1 tracker

    Interia - Polska i świat: informacje, sport, gwiazdy.

    Interia - czołowy polski portal internetowy. Najlepsze serwisy informacyjne i tematyczne (Wydarzenia, Sport, Motoryzacja, Biznes, GeekWeek, Gry, Kobieta). Bezpłatna poczta e-mail.

    Compare Interia with AOL →
  10. 10
    Centrum.cz centrum.cz Top 10K Czech 1 tracker

    Centrum.cz: Fandíme dobrému obsahu

    Centrum.cz je český internetový portál nabízející e-mail, aktuální zpravodajství, počasí a další zajímavé služby.

    Compare Centrum.cz with AOL →
  11. 11
    Semafor semafor.com English 1 tracker

    Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video

    Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.

    Compare Semafor with AOL →
  12. 12
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English No trackers

    Russian web portal

    Compare Mail.ru with AOL →
  13. 13
    o2.pl Polish No trackers

    o2 - Blisko Ludzi

    o2 to serwis blisko ludzi. Pieniądze, zakupy, rozrywka, porady, wiadomości lokalne. Wszystko, czym żyje Polska!

    Compare o2.pl with AOL →
  14. 14
    Techmeme techmeme.com 1 tracker

    Techmeme

    Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.

    Compare Techmeme with AOL →
  15. 15
    sina.cn Top 10K No trackers

    手机新浪网

    手机新浪网是新浪网的手机门户网站,为亿万用户打造一个手机联通世界的超级平台,提供24小时全面及时的中文资讯,内容覆盖国内外突发新闻事件、体坛赛事、娱乐时尚、产业资讯、实用信息等。手机新浪网触屏版 - sina.cn

    Compare sina.cn with AOL →
  16. 16
    Ninemsn nine.com.au Top 10K English 1 tracker

    nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world

    Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine

    Compare Ninemsn with AOL →
  17. 17
    Wirtualna Polska wp.pl Top 1K Polish No trackers

    Wirtualna Polska - Wszystko co ważne - www.wp.pl

    Nowoczesne medium, porządkuje świat i dostarcza angażujące informacje, rozrywkę i usługi w czasie rzeczywistym. Przewodnik Polaków w wirtualnym świecie.

    Compare Wirtualna Polska with AOL →
  18. 18
    bluewin.ch Top 10K English 2 trackers

    News & Email at blue News | Switzerland, Sports, People, International

    News from Switzerland and around the world covering sports, politics, entertainment, business & digital — Live streams – Webmail login Bluewin email

    Compare bluewin.ch with AOL →
  19. 19
    Nate nate.com Top 10K No trackers

    South Korean web portal

    Compare Nate with AOL →
  20. 20
    United Press International upi.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com

    UPI delivers the latest headlines from around the world: Top News, Entertainment, Health, Business, Science and Sports News - United Press International

    Compare United Press International with AOL →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles AOL’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones AOL uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what AOL 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 · 10 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,197
Vector
384-d
Query
85 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to AOL’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

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JavaScript frameworks
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
Monitoring
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: n_U5TEjIeZN0_4P4RL5OdjMRHF-fJAyUScHQ2H78sWvfzXU_Lwh-Nw==
Web servers
  • Envoy header server: envoy
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)