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EPFL
Who runs EPFL, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Technical university alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ETH Zurich
Measured from EPFL’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit EPFL01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs EPFL
EPFL epfl.ch
Based in Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL is a university whose three missions are education, research and innovation.
Wikidata: university in Ecublens, Switzerland
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What EPFL 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
5 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 3 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 EPFL
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to EPFL, thumbs down if it isn’t.
9 of the 60 sites closest to EPFL match.
- 01
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 - 02
Technical University of Munich: The Entrepreneurial University - TUM
Technical University of Munich: One of Germany's leading universities for research and teaching in natural sciences and engineering.
Very close - 03
TU Wien | TU Wien
Homepage, TU Wien, TUW "Technology for people". News. Everything about: studies, research, patnerships, services.
Very close - 04
Chalmers University of Technology
We push for solutions to important societal challenges every day, test new ideas and contribute to the development of a sustainable future.
Very close - 05
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 - 06
Welcome | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Welcome to the IZA@LISER Network website
Very close - 07
Home - Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.
Very close - 08
University of Innsbruck – Universität Innsbruck
None
Very close - 09
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.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles EPFL’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones EPFL 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 EPFL 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 · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to EPFL’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
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.epfl.ch/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js?ver=1793355102
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631fcdf97d9303-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX epfl-ch.mail.protection.outlook.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on epfl.ch 18/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Atlassian · not on epfl.ch 12/20
- Adobe · not on epfl.ch 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Apple Business · not on epfl.ch 6/20
- Brevo · not on epfl.ch 6/20
- PHP 6/20
- Matomo · not on epfl.ch 6/20
- Zoom · not on epfl.ch 5/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on epfl.ch 4/20
- OpenAI · not on epfl.ch 3/20
- TYPO3 · not on epfl.ch 3/20
- Java · not on epfl.ch 3/20
- nginx · not on epfl.ch 3/20