hackaday.com
Hackaday
Who runs Hackaday, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest maker technology blog alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- makezine.com
Measured from Hackaday’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Hackaday01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Hackaday
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Hackaday 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
10 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Usercentrics
- US company
- 3 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Hackaday
None of the 60 sites closest to Hackaday 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 Hackaday 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 · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 51 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/mpm6gph.js
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp page source: list-manage.com
- Cookie consent
- Usercentrics page source: web.cmp.usercentrics.eu
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.googlemail.com include:mailgun.org include:serve…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: dQIcgy2eQ8-zyE6l15aOsCdxiVDUKl84C_zi-lJivYE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ie1lkz19o2lsbploq4owagf1snbzsy
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_cuY_AVoeSBi4AAVJQvMu-A
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on hackaday.com 8/20
- PHP 8/20
- WordPress 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on hackaday.com 7/20
- nginx 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on hackaday.com 6/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on hackaday.com 6/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on hackaday.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on hackaday.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on hackaday.com 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on hackaday.com 3/20
- Mailchimp 3/20