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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.
Visit AOL01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs AOL
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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
None of the 60 sites closest to AOL 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 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 and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: n_U5TEjIeZN0_4P4RL5OdjMRHF-fJAyUScHQ2H78sWvfzXU_Lwh-Nw==
- Web servers
- Envoy header server: envoy
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1805.awsdns-33.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: AC51FE4BBA33843E8A3FC86F4B7024F2
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=A8559NR8s5jDgfIOiI89M1Ln_KDohG1F-obiP…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ko2245Ra2QPRrivJQepBc3qAXmApiF8Wrb1nbWAP_jc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ervjrx9gun9l4uhc6o4d05p65r2824
Sitemaps
, 3,573,924 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- GlobalSign 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on aol.com 9/20
- React 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on aol.com 8/20
- Next.js 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on aol.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on aol.com 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on aol.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront 4/20
- Apple Business · not on aol.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on aol.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on aol.com 4/20
- Taboola · not on aol.com 3/20