fc2.com
FC2
Who runs FC2, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest blog and video hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Seesaaブログ(シーサー):無料でアフィリエイトからまとめブログまで
Measured from FC2’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit FC201 · Who’s behind it
Who runs FC2
FC2 fc2.com
FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.
Wikidata: Japanese blogging host
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What FC2 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
6 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to FC2
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to FC2, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
ニコニコ
日本最大級の動画サービス、ニコニコ(niconico)。動画にコメントを付けて楽しむニコニコ動画や、生放送番組にリアルタイムでコメントを付けられるニコニコ生放送のほか、イラスト・マンガ・最新ニュース・ゲームなど、エンターテイメントを全て無料で楽しめる!
Very close - 02
online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform
Very close - 03
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 04
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close - 05
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.
Very close - 06
wiki hosting service and domain
Very close - 07
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close - 08
Tabelog - Japan Food & Restaurant Guide for Travelers
Find and book your perfect restaurant with "Tabelog"! Explore 906,827 restaurants across Japan. Discover top-rated spots in various categories based on unique rankings, user reviews, and photos that fit your purpose and budget!
Very close - 09
Japanese online artist community
Very close - 10
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 11
KICK
KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.
Very close - 12
Welcome to wiki.gg!
wiki.gg hosts MediaWiki sites about common-interest topics. With over 800 wikis and an indie, editors-first mindset, we're a great place to host your wiki and we'd love to have you!
Very close - 13
MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
Very close - 14
BIGO LIVE - Live Stream, Live Games, Chat Rooms Online
BIGO LIVE is a free live streaming platform that allows you to go live, watch live streams, live games, live shows, and video chat online.
Very close - 15
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more – 100% free.
Very close - 16
Japanese online bulletin board system
Very close - 17
Choose your Region - Cookpad
Thousands of authentic recipes from around the world, recommended and tested by home cooks. Save your favourites and share your own on Cookpad.
Very close - 18
Create a blog or website for free and make money online - Altervista
Do you want to create a website for free? Find out how to do it on Altervista: open a blog or a website quickly and easily and start making money online. Altervista is free of charge forever
Very close - 19
Upload Video Online - Free Video Hosting - Streamable
Upload your video in seconds on Streamable. We accept a variety of video formats including MP4, MOV, AVI, and more. It's free, try it now!
Very close - 20
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles FC2’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones FC2 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 FC2 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to FC2’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
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://fc2.com/js/jquery-3.7.1.min.js
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/ga.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1489.awsdns-58.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=1nOpExZT9XNXudjS
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=2_4TxJ68IGucTlWJwmrCxXB9zEU4XNABzcpAHmoGoGA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Amazon Route 53 13/20
- Google Workspace · not on fc2.com 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on fc2.com 6/20
- Zendesk · not on fc2.com 6/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on fc2.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on fc2.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on fc2.com 5/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- nginx 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on fc2.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on fc2.com 4/20
- Apple Business 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on fc2.com 4/20
- jQuery 3/20
- Next.js · not on fc2.com 3/20