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Chron
Who runs Chron, 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
- Houston Chronicle
Measured from Chron’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Chron01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Chron
Chron chron.com
Chron, a trusted Texas news source since 2012, delivers the latest weather, culture, food and sports news about Houston, the Gulf Coast, North Texas and beyond.
Wikidata: news website based in Houston, Texas
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Chron 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
8 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Chron
None of the 60 sites closest to Chron 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 Chron 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 · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,200
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 64 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080036-BER, cache-ber1080030-BER
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.65 (Unix)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX chron-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com ip4:52.6.112.187 ip4:40.121…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=3ebb0754e0941b0fd3e9cfe346802f5b6321a2a9b…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=FpL/aWW65m3p2lAjgu9uaxMnORyl2KLKjkSbpFU…
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 9451CA04ABC9D1D5C6419C73B4C4F7B7
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=Iiihy-iv_vLdlIMtHvh-aCdqO2T53oCoknhW4…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=bXQzLawUcr2NB_HDsMFsxU1cV--kiYYdJn-HJeVvtv4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=dvj23ngdiqij56l9mbzqims48rzkh1
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-x0a9Xxj4lFPLIFU1DqqKMO7R
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Meta Business Suite 15/20
- Google Ad Manager 14/20
- GlobalSign 12/20
- React 12/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Next.js 11/20
- Fastly 8/20
- New Relic 8/20
- OpenAI 8/20
- Adobe 7/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on chron.com 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on chron.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on chron.com 7/20
- Apache HTTP Server 6/20