boston.com

Boston.com

Who runs Boston.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest local news website alternatives.

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

Measured from Boston.com’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 Boston.com

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What Boston cares about right now: Get breaking updates on news, sports, and weather. Local alerts, things to do, and more on Boston.com.

Wikidata: news and information website

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

02 · Privacy

What Boston.com 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

15 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust
US company: 10 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking

Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
- MailchimpUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Boston.com

Fewer trackers than Boston.com No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Boston.com 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 Boston.com 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 · 28 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 134 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://bdc2020.o0bc.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Fonts: Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Source+Serif+Pro:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;0,700;1,4…
Analytics: Adobe Analytics page source: AppMeasurement.js
Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
Outbrain page source: widgets.outbrain.com
Marketing automation: Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:198.115.64.0/24 ip4:198.115.68.0/22 ip4:198.115.72.0/…
Live chat & support: Zendesk TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:198.115.64.0/24 ip4:198.115.68.0/22 ip4:198.115.72.0/…
Cookie consent: OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Monitoring: New Relic page source: NREUM
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563188f1d02e96b-HAM
Fastly header x-served-by: cache-bos-kbos510039-BOS, cache-ber1080052-BER
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Video: YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
Email delivery: Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:198.115.64.0/24 ip4:198.115.68.0/22 ip4:198.115.72.0/…
Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 a mx ip4:198.115.64.0/24 ip4:198.115.68.0/22 ip4:198.115.72.0/…
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS teagan.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=vNoVoPJnYrmYhugpzEFYEUUdqZCayYg/xomfDHK…
DocuSign TXT docusign=360b3dec-f114-49bd-8ceb-549461a83274
GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=xD2Xrm6RMwMJjYQgka9_JIGNgIkA2KVGMdm55…
Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Mvps2Iz3RkrsYB4SIGbGhtQQFSU7Ppzbq8oxq1Ij63k
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=tqycbx2xeq2vpox6fee18a2is4b7m7

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.