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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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GAO, thumbs down if it isn’t.
13 of the 60 sites closest to GAO match.
- 01
Find government payments and services | myGov
country in Oceania
Very close - 02
CIA
national foreign intelligence agency of the United States
Very close - 03
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Very close - 04
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 - 05
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Close - 06
Home - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | CMS
United States federal agency
Close - 07
Home Page - Federal Register of Legislation
authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth of Australia legislation and related documents
Close - 08
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Leading the IC. safety. security. freedom. Leading the IC. safety. security. freedom. Leading the IC. safety. security. freedom. Our Priorities Transparency Content blurb here about our priorities. Duis eleifend eros et elit lobortis, ut gravida felis condimentum. Donec quis nisi…
Close - 09
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
Close - 10
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Home page of the United States Patent and Trademark Office's main web site.
Close - 11
Home | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
American government agency
Close - 12
Welcome to GOV.UK
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
Close - 13
Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace® | HealthCare.gov
Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®. Official government website.
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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
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 152 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