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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
- –
- 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
None of the 60 sites closest to GAO match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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 and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
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