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University of Edinburgh
Who runs University of Edinburgh, 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 St Andrews
Measured from University of Edinburgh’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit University of Edinburgh01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh ed.ac.uk
The University of Edinburgh, influencing the world since 1583. We are one of the UK's top-rated research universities. Located in Scotland's capital city, one of the liveliest and most beautiful cities in the world.
Wikidata: public university in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What University of Edinburgh 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, 1 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 University of Edinburgh
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to University of Edinburgh, thumbs down if it isn’t.
8 of the 60 sites closest to University of Edinburgh match.
- 01
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 - 02
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 - 03
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 - 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
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 - 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
Making sure you're not a bot!
Wir forschen, lehren und arbeiten für die und mit der Gesellschaft. Frei. Unabhängig. Verantwortungsvoll. Mutig und engagiert. Vielfältig und offen. Geschichtsbewusst und zukunftsorientiert. Exzellent. Wir sind die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU).
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.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles University of Edinburgh’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones University of Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to University of Edinburgh’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 11 (https://www.drupal.org)
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.ed.ac.uk/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=4.0.0
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Hosting
- Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-eu-a-5f44c64967-cxrt6
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms19865531
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=9db671d607ebf16beea70817c49b29047455a65b0…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=GdY8AaSm3lg1AfIwxaLCfBQ74JTRVdCglvXCemY…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=4ZuqBGfY2nJYa-fSnLebPcXvRYASxxsLnNWAp_hlzBE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=jgrtk4emx8zgw89m896o4jl93dtvjo
- Miro TXT miro-verification=8db07eb0e619ced2ae632f39bb2041573adee8d1
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Atlassian 13/20
- Google Tag Manager 11/20
- Adobe 7/20
- Apple Business · not on ed.ac.uk 7/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on ed.ac.uk 6/20
- Miro 6/20
- PHP 6/20
- jQuery 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on ed.ac.uk 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on ed.ac.uk 4/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on ed.ac.uk 4/20
- Brevo · not on ed.ac.uk 4/20
- OneTrust · not on ed.ac.uk 4/20