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Who runs GAO, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest government audit agency alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Congressional Budget Office
Measured from GAO’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit GAO01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs GAO
GAO gao.gov
GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.
Wikidata: US federal government agency
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What GAO 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 15 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 GAO
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GAO, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to GAO match.
- 01
Home - National Audit Office
The UK’s independent public spending watchdog. We support Parliament to hold the government to account and we help improve public services.
Very close - 02
GovInfo | U.S. Government Publishing Office
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Very close - 03
Find government payments and services | myGov
country in Oceania
Very close - 04
Home | GSA
Our mission is to deliver the best customer experience and value in real estate, acquisition, and technology services to government and the American people.
Very close - 05
Making government services easier to find | USAGov
Find government benefits, services, agencies, and information at USA.gov. Contact elected officials. Learn about passports, Social Security, taxes, and more.
Very close - 06
Digital.gov | Guidance on building better digital services in government
Guidance on building better digital services in government
Very close - 07
Internal Revenue Service | An official website of the United States government
Pay your taxes. Get your refund status. Find IRS forms and answers to tax questions. We help you understand and meet your federal tax responsibilities.
Very close - 08
USAspending.gov
database of US Government spending
Very close - 09
U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Office Homepage
Very close - 10
Home | SAM.gov
system for tracking US federal acquisition and contracting
Very close - 11
Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Energy - Home
Very close - 12
CIA
national foreign intelligence agency of the United States
Very close - 13
Data.gov Home - Data.gov
The home of the U.S. Government's open data
Very close - 14
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Very close - 15
Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage
The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
Close - 16
The White House
President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, and making all Americans safe and secure once again.
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Homepage | house.gov
lower house of the United States Congress
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The CFPB's vision is a consumer finance marketplace that works for American consumers, responsible providers, and the economy as a whole.
Close - 19
Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
Official website of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
Very close - 20
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | US EPA
Website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles GAO’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones GAO 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 GAO 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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,213
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to GAO’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.gao.gov/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=4.0.0
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms93491652
- Proofpoint MX mxa-0030d401.gslb.pphosted.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=9ec7c19bd24109a66645b3c15149071982b6300b6…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: wob6eovMWacm3mswEjWyXs0ItjBfACDZwVo7QhDSL9A
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on gao.gov 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- PHP 8/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Drupal 7/20
- jQuery 5/20
- Apple Business · not on gao.gov 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on gao.gov 4/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on gao.gov 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on gao.gov 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on gao.gov 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on gao.gov 3/20
- Webex · not on gao.gov 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on gao.gov 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on gao.gov 3/20