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University of Glasgow
Who runs University of Glasgow, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest higher education alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- abdn.ac.uk
Measured from University of Glasgow’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit University of Glasgow01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow gla.ac.uk
The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. A world top 100 university. The University of Glasgow is a major research-led university operating in an international context with the following fundamental aims: * to provide education through the development of learning in a research environment * to undertake fundamental, strategic and applied research * to make a major contribution to local, regional, national and international communities through widening access and through working in partnership to support economic regeneration * to sustain and add value to Scottish culture, to the natural enviro
Wikidata: university in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, founded in 1451
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What University of Glasgow 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 17 alternatives below have fewer, 4 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 University of Glasgow
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to University of Glasgow, thumbs down if it isn’t.
9 of the 60 sites closest to University of Glasgow match.
- 01
Home | The University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is a UK Top 20 and World Top 250 University with outstanding levels of student satisfaction.
Very close - 02
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a large UK higher education institution and part of the Russell Group of leading universities.
Very close - 03
Uppsala University
Welcome to Uppsala University Sweden! Quality, knowledge and creativity since 1477. World-class research and first-rate education of global use to society, business, and culture. Uppsala University is one of northern Europes most highly ranked universities.
Very close - 04
University of Copenhagen - University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen, with approximately 40,000 students and 9,000 employees, is one of the largest research and educational institutions in the Nordic region.
Close - 05
Home - Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global, experiential, research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world.
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
public research university in Hong Kong established in 1963
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The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE
LSE is a world-leading social science specialist university, awarded University of the Year 2025 and ranked 1st in London and the UK in 2025 and 2026.
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Making sure you're not a bot!
Wir forschen, lehren und arbeiten für die und mit der Gesellschaft. Frei. Unabhängig. Verantwortungsvoll. Mutig und engagiert. Vielfältig und offen. Geschichtsbewusst und zukunftsorientiert. Exzellent. Wir sind die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU).
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Forsiden - Universitetet i Oslo
Universitetet i Oslo er det eldste og høyest rangerte universitetet i Norge. Universitetet har over 26 000 studenter og 7000 ansatte. UiO har ledende forskningsmiljøer og landets bredeste studietilbud.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles University of Glasgow’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones University of Glasgow 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 University of Glasgow 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
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to University of Glasgow’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
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://www.gla.ac.uk/3t4/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms78393017
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=x8raRPrn8Sg8kjZ9
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=7F8VtSmbkCP7OHTCgW5/XH41ZG3uiIjtevEKgCW…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=zyPX2VcoCdVTxiIIiD2IXAXv75Ynx9OnZg4W-sLgJ50
- Miro TXT miro-verification=a6da5c78d8f9fb4c3b2884aad1ceaa4b607f3e28
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Atlassian 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- jQuery · not on gla.ac.uk 8/20
- PHP · not on gla.ac.uk 8/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Adobe · not on gla.ac.uk 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on gla.ac.uk 6/20
- Apache HTTP Server 5/20
- cdnjs · not on gla.ac.uk 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on gla.ac.uk 5/20
- Drupal · not on gla.ac.uk 4/20
- Fastly · not on gla.ac.uk 4/20
- Miro 4/20
- OneTrust · not on gla.ac.uk 4/20