hostels.com
hostels.com
Who runs hostels.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Hostel booking alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- booking.com
Measured from hostels.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit hostels.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs hostels.com
hostels.com
Online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What hostels.com 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 16 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- TrustArc
- US company
- 3 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to hostels.com
None of the 60 sites closest to hostels.com 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 hostels.com 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,215
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 45 ms
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com ?all
- Cookie consent
- TrustArc page source: consent.trustarc.com
- Monitoring
- Sentry page source: .ingest.sentry.io
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX hostelworld-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: B062587789B141D9BF3FED9B67A6B3F6
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=KQAkLFXlP3VT6FHQa-aXvw3iw-N2twlA6y6IDo…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on hostels.com 17/20
- Atlassian · not on hostels.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- OpenAI · not on hostels.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on hostels.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on hostels.com 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on hostels.com 8/20
- Adobe · not on hostels.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Miro · not on hostels.com 7/20
- React · not on hostels.com 7/20
- DocuSign · not on hostels.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on hostels.com 5/20
- Google Fonts 5/20
- Next.js · not on hostels.com 5/20
- UltraDNS · not on hostels.com 4/20