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Ars Technica
Who runs Ars Technica, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- The Verge
Measured from Ars Technica’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Ars Technica01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Ars Technica
Ars Technica arstechnica.com
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Wikidata: technology news and information website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Ars Technica 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
1 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Ars Technica
None of the 60 sites closest to Ars Technica 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 Ars Technica 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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-783.awsdns-33.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=HdFEloOqFNJZvQWa7SK2BRmWVt8aVnPuagqXZ-C2U5U
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=qptjyerza2q11uv3fe6aay6hbsncr8
Sitemaps
, 76 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on arstechnica.com 11/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on arstechnica.com 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on arstechnica.com 9/20
- PHP 8/20
- WordPress 8/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- nginx · not on arstechnica.com 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on arstechnica.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- OpenAI · not on arstechnica.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on arstechnica.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on arstechnica.com 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on arstechnica.com 5/20