gapminder.org

Gapminder

Who runs Gapminder, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest data literacy education alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Our World in Data

Measured from Gapminder’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Gapminder

Gapminder gapminder.org

Wikidata: Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Gapminder 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 19 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 5 tools

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics

Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
- Cloudflare Web AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Gapminder

Fewer trackers than Gapminder No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Gapminder 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 Gapminder 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 · 15 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,215
Vector: 384-d
Query: 72 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.7.10
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://www.gapminder.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Fonts: Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Rubik:wght@300;400;500;700&display=swap
Analytics: Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Payments: Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a8e28cce6313-HAM
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.7.10)
Video: Vimeo page source: player.vimeo.com/video
YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms57007836
Email delivery: Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 mx include:cmail1.com include:aspmx.googlemail.com include:spf…
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS nelly.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=K8nBIB6Mo5PYN-LBJIeJPZpKsVI_KlmDMF2Iu2Vq5ig

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.