gizmodo.com
Gizmodo
Who runs Gizmodo, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- The Verge
Measured from Gizmodo’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Gizmodo01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Gizmodo
Gizmodo gizmodo.com
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
Wikidata: design, technology, science, and science fiction website and blog
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Gizmodo 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
12 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Gizmodo
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Gizmodo, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close - 02
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close - 03
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close - 04
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED
We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered.
Very close - 05
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Very close - 06 venturebeat.com Top 10K
American technology news and analysis website
Very close - 07
New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News
Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.
Very close - 08
Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Very close - 09
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
see all latest
Very close - 10
CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Very close - 11
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Very close - 12
Technology news and analysis | The Register
All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register
Very close - 13
InfoWorld
Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies.
Very close - 14
IT総合情報ポータル「ITmedia」Home
テクノロジー関連のニュース及び速報を中心に、レビューや特集記事を掲載。
Very close - 15
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
Very close - 16
Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
Very close - 17
Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
Very close - 18
Checking your browser
Very close - 19
TechRadar | Dein Technik-Kaufberater
Die aktuellsten News und Produkttests im Bereich Technik, Computer, Home Entertainment Systeme, Gadgets und mehr
Very close - 20
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Gizmodo’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Gizmodo 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 Gizmodo 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 · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Gizmodo’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
- WordPress page source: /wp-includes/
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.scw-tem.cloud include:ser…
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56307fb29357d79-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS agustin.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=qVsrwksLomfAp5ui
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ZHpYCDO8_L6gzqEMj34dxIVrm1qElsr_07cRdTMZ6vE
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Google Tag Manager 15/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- PHP 10/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on gizmodo.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on gizmodo.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on gizmodo.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- nginx · not on gizmodo.com 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on gizmodo.com 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on gizmodo.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on gizmodo.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on gizmodo.com 5/20