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Boston University
Who runs Boston University, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest higher education alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Tufts University
Measured from Boston University’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Boston University01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Boston University
Boston University bu.edu
Boston University is a leading private research institution with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world.
Wikidata: private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Boston University 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
9 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Boston University
None of the 60 sites closest to Boston University 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 University 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 · 18 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.bu.edu/home/js/jquery.min.js
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: 31-lvCpEUuGW0CjXa1Zq1V-J2rLyzdvtxSfWzgTz7_p1BZNrrt3O2w==
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.18.0
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms14560947
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:956c0e08c148a9770622045342757477
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=a71f2fe0-25c1-46cd-9d0f-c83d769cc464
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=xbZoF0D4CQePMvfj
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=aUzHV7Znf5W7zM9iKWIuXmQL2n3xyjLnhzctpiQ…
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=z6zza3wyksbx
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=qM8eaHJfQH86-_P7YBYXq_yUIgourW2SlrR_KJr8dVY
- Miro TXT miro-verification=377cc6659a02c6725b563adc7e39e17eaee09eb3
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-jqEdCiOFLvqVPwoC3PcpCjU3
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_yhxVUDjfdOc4LiPKGmrwOZ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Adobe 18/20
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 18/20
- Atlassian 17/20
- Google Tag Manager 13/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- Brevo 12/20
- PHP 10/20
- OpenAI 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on bu.edu 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on bu.edu 8/20
- Fastly · not on bu.edu 7/20
- nginx 7/20
- DocuSign · not on bu.edu 7/20
- Proofpoint · not on bu.edu 7/20
- Adobe Fonts · not on bu.edu 6/20