github.io

GitHub

Who runs GitHub, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest static site hosting alternatives.

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

Measured from GitHub’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 GitHub

GitHub github.io

Websites for you and your projects, hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

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

02 · Privacy

What GitHub 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.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on GitHub’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to GitHub

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to GitHub 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 GitHub 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 · 5 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,213
Vector: 384-d
Query: 41 ms

Built with

JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://pages.github.com/js/jquery.js
CDN: Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: 9f422c31f8e6ea11380e9343ab3bcb2658eb3cae
Hosting: GitHub Pages header server: GitHub.com
DNS hosting: Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1339.awsdns-39.org
NS1 NS dns3.p05.nsone.net

Sitemaps

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.