brightspace.com
D2L
Who runs D2L, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest learning management system alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Blackboard
Measured from D2L’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit D2L01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs D2L
D2L brightspace.com
Created by D2L, Brightspace is the best LMS software for online learning and teaching. Discover how our online learning platform for schools and companies can help your organization today.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What D2L 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
7 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
A/B testing
Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.
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 D2L
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to D2L, thumbs down if it isn’t.
4 of the 60 sites closest to D2L match.
- 01
Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool
Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.
Very close - 02
Work & Project Management for Human-Agent Teams • Asana
Work management software for teams and AI agents. Plan, automate, and execute critical workflows together.
Very close - 03
Visme: AI Presentation maker, Infographics, and One pager templates
Create professional presentations, interactive infographics, beautiful design and engaging videos, all in one place. Start using Visme today.
Very close - 04
AI-powered enterprise work management software | Wrike
Wrike is the trusted work delivery platform for people and AI. We help enterprises reach the outcome faster, without losing control of how work gets done.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles D2L’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones D2L 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 D2L 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 · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 170 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to D2L’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
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.d2l.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- A/B testing
- VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630bef59addea4-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Video
- Vimeo page source: player.vimeo.com/video
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX brightspace-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1559.awsdns-02.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=mFagkdI0m2JjG0M5ADkX_2HBCNE9e8qactTXuaGpS0s
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_netblocks.eloqua.c…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on brightspace.com 15/20
- Apple Business · not on brightspace.com 15/20
- Atlassian · not on brightspace.com 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 12/20
- Stripe · not on brightspace.com 12/20
- OpenAI · not on brightspace.com 11/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Zendesk · not on brightspace.com 10/20
- Salesforce 9/20
- Amazon SES · not on brightspace.com 9/20
- PHP 9/20
- OneTrust · not on brightspace.com 8/20
- Miro · not on brightspace.com 8/20
- WordPress 8/20