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Encyclopedia.com
Who runs Encyclopedia.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online encyclopedia alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Measured from Encyclopedia.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Encyclopedia.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia.com encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
Wikidata: online encyclopedia website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Encyclopedia.com 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 12 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Encyclopedia.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Encyclopedia.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Encyclopedia.com match.
- 01
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close - 02
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Very close - 03
Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
Very close - 04
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close - 05
A-Z Quotes | Quotes for All Occasions
Discover inspirational quotes, collect and share famous and rare quotes. Create beautiful and unique picture quotes in one click. Sayings from famous authors, movies and people.
Very close - 06 dict.cc No trackers
dict.cc | German-English dictionary
dict.cc German-English dictionary - English-German translations.
Very close - 07
Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!
Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.
Very close - 08
AZLyrics - Song Lyrics from A to Z
music online lyrics database
Very close - 09
Explain that Stuff
A collection of FREE, easy-to-understand science, technology, and how-it-works articles for the whole family!
Very close - 10
BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages.
Read, hear, and study Scripture at the world's most-visited Christian website. Grow your faith with devotionals, Bible reading plans, and mobile apps.
Very close - 11
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Very close - 12
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
Very close - 13
Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close - 14
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close - 15
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Very close - 16
Home - CookieSearch
CookieSearch is an open-source database of 100,000+ pre-categorized cookies. Find information on web cookies - category, URL, script and description.
Very close - 17
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 18
Song Meanings at Songfacts
Songfacts - the stories and meanings behind the songs, with songwriter interviews and lyrics.
Very close - 19
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 20
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Encyclopedia.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Encyclopedia.com 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 Encyclopedia.com 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 · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Encyclopedia.com’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
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp page source: list-manage.com
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577930a2dc620f2-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS jason.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=Kir_4y4aARa01emj9cRjJdD8xNI-tJmM7fVX-…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=WZ3EVKFP_smbh44jUfk3kQJbmWt3ctbLzBpjjlTvajA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Google Analytics 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on encyclopedia.com 4/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on encyclopedia.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on encyclopedia.com 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on encyclopedia.com 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on encyclopedia.com 3/20
- Adobe · not on encyclopedia.com 2/20
- PHP 2/20
- Prebid.js · not on encyclopedia.com 2/20
- reCAPTCHA · not on encyclopedia.com 2/20
- Amazon SES · not on encyclopedia.com 2/20
- SendGrid · not on encyclopedia.com 2/20