bobvila.com
Bob Vila
Who runs Bob Vila, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest home improvement media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- This Old House
Measured from Bob Vila’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
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Who runs Bob Vila
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Inspirational ideas and expert advice from Bob Vila, the most trusted name in home improvement, home renovation, home repair, and DIY.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Bob Vila 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
11 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Sourcepoint
- US company
- 4 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Bob Vila
None of the 60 sites closest to Bob Vila 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 Bob Vila 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 · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:sendgri…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:sendgri…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-940.awsdns-53.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=VzRovTWhxjedMqXFfoiZ-UNRnlnuTXYHgjKem…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: E-tMgiKmgaSZ9QC_vEMi16LAAGe9m-3Etj_l-wCMCcQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on bobvila.com 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on bobvila.com 15/20
- OneTrust · not on bobvila.com 13/20
- GlobalSign 12/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Next.js · not on bobvila.com 9/20
- React · not on bobvila.com 9/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on bobvila.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on bobvila.com 6/20
- PHP 6/20
- WordPress 6/20
- Vimeo · not on bobvila.com 6/20
- nginx 6/20
- Apple Business · not on bobvila.com 5/20