boston.gov
Boston
Who runs Boston, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest municipal government alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- City of Chicago
Measured from Boston’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Boston01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Boston
Boston boston.gov
Welcome to the official homepage for the City of Boston.
Wikidata: capital city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and seat of Suffolk County
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Boston 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
3 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 3 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 Boston
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Boston, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Boston match.
- 01
SF.gov
city and county in California, United States
Very close - 02
French commune
Very close - 03
Oregon.gov : State of Oregon
The official homepage of the State of Oregon
Very close - 04
Rajasthan State Portal | Government of Rajasthan
Official Rajasthan State Portal providing information on government departments, schemes, services, tenders, notifications, tourism, festivals, citizen services and important government resources.
Very close - 05
Language selection | Belgium.be
country in western Europe
Very close - 06
Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
Official website of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
Very close - 07
Information from the Government of the Netherlands | Government.nl
executive administration body in the Netherlands
Very close - 08
Medicaid.gov: The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicaid and CHIP Services | Medicaid
United States social health care program for families and individuals with limited resources
Very close - 09
Language selection | European Union
Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.
Very close - 10
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Very close - 11
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 12
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 13
Musée du Louvre Official Website
Welcome to the Louvre – prepare your visit, explore the palace and museum collections and check out the latest news
Very close - 14
Find government payments and services | myGov
country in Oceania
Very close - 15
Minnesota.gov Portal / mn.gov // Minnesota's State Portal
Navigate your state and find what you're looking for on Minnesota's state portal.
Very close - 16
Home | nc.gov
North Carolina's Official Website, featuring information about government services, updates, and guides to exploring and enjoying our state.
Very close - 17
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close - 18
Welcome to GOV.UK
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
Very close - 19
Welcome to Medicare | Medicare
The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
Very close - 20
a list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Boston’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Boston uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Boston 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 · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Boston’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
Built with
- CMS
- Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:140.241.0.0/16 ip4:35.170.24.210 ip4:63.101.151.0/28 ip4:1…
- Security
- Imperva header x-iinfo: 58-50247788-50200339 pNNy RT(1794173449333 251) q(0 0 0 1) …
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lity/2.3.1/lity.min.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:140.241.0.0/16 ip4:35.170.24.210 ip4:63.101.151.0/28 ip4:1…
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms75005848
- Proofpoint MX mxb-00241402.gslb.pphosted.com
- Email delivery
- Mailjet TXT v=spf1 ip4:140.241.0.0/16 ip4:35.170.24.210 ip4:63.101.151.0/28 ip4:1…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=etxhAsIffJtqG1wD
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=T5pbyx3Xda6qTVPHmg2tfZm0BOyd7GDouua0hSJ…
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=ea97c1367c3a61d3869a908a9c72d22c
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=IPuEgAlJdCGxp24dLn5oNXU5CGc-yjT6KPIWEydvCG4
- Miro TXT miro-verification=e633fc675a75c18b908ed0ef29763cdca5f3d59b
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Apple Business 9/20
- Adobe · not on boston.gov 8/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- DocuSign · not on boston.gov 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- PHP 5/20
- jQuery · not on boston.gov 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on boston.gov 5/20
- Google Workspace 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on boston.gov 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on boston.gov 4/20
- Drupal 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on boston.gov 4/20
- Salesforce · not on boston.gov 4/20