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University of Cambridge
Who runs University of Cambridge, 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
- University of Oxford
Measured from University of Cambridge’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit University of Cambridge01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge cam.ac.uk
The University of Cambridge is one of the world’s leading universities, with a rich history of radical thinking dating back to 1209.
Wikidata: collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What University of Cambridge 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
1 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
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 University of Cambridge
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to University of Cambridge, thumbs down if it isn’t.
8 of the 60 sites closest to University of Cambridge match.
- 01
The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE
LSE is a world-leading social science specialist university, awarded University of the Year 2025 and ranked 1st in London and the UK in 2025 and 2026.
Very close - 02
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a large UK higher education institution and part of the Russell Group of leading universities.
Very close - 03
University of Copenhagen - University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen, with approximately 40,000 students and 9,000 employees, is one of the largest research and educational institutions in the Nordic region.
Very close - 04
RWTH Aachen University | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule | EN
Die RWTH Aachen ist ein Ort, an dem die Zukunft unserer industrialisierten Welt gedacht wird - Thinking the Future
Very close - 05
清华大学
public university in Beijing, China
Very close - 06
Home - Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.
Very close - 07
Home | The University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is a UK Top 20 and World Top 250 University with outstanding levels of student satisfaction.
Very close - 08
UHH : University of Hamburg
Discover the University of Hamburg – a top research university in Germany. Explore study programs research strengths and international options at UHH.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles University of Cambridge’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones University of Cambridge 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 University of Cambridge 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
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to University of Cambridge’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)
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v6.4.0/js/all.js
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300,400,700&display=swap
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ams-eham8680069-AMS, cache-ber1080044-BER, cache-ber1…
- Hosting
- Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-eu-a-5f44c64967-9mdr9
- 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 include:_spf.cam.ac.uk include:spf.protection.outlook.com incl…
- Microsoft 365 MX cam-ac-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=S5SLTUt0OLAN9mxNzSRE7Cwjz4YOzlAVb87kMqk…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=vob_qUOVAbGehTQ74k1vnA1XCWJB2CSWwsP9fNdwALU
- Miro TXT miro-verification=a1052e0584a21e3d2792bce42f69dc21def357fc
Sitemaps
, 17,774 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Google Tag Manager 15/20
- Atlassian 14/20
- Adobe · not on cam.ac.uk 11/20
- Brevo · not on cam.ac.uk 9/20
- DocuSign · not on cam.ac.uk 8/20
- jQuery · not on cam.ac.uk 8/20
- PHP 7/20
- OpenAI · not on cam.ac.uk 6/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on cam.ac.uk 5/20
- Apple Business · not on cam.ac.uk 5/20
- OneTrust · not on cam.ac.uk 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on cam.ac.uk 4/20
- Miro 4/20