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HowStuffWorks
Who runs HowStuffWorks, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest explanatory reference media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Explain that Stuff
Measured from HowStuffWorks’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit HowStuffWorks01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks howstuffworks.com
Wikidata: American media company
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What HowStuffWorks tracks
We couldn’t read howstuffworks.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to HowStuffWorks
None of the 60 sites closest to HowStuffWorks 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 HowStuffWorks 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net ?all
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=6a0f32b404ce44ab9f846a571b40db1e
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: QjW_Z5Yz9GwErcQ-8S86V6A5uB51NwI_NUF-IEZQBuzkLWtQ6hESGw==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms74645168
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-230.awsdns-28.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=kpW93Gl0HucESn1XIuigK0EfPnA8gPRAkNY/HH6…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=f6ed7987-8396-476d-b76e-1251c0fa75ff
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=B4YiM1AMRmRxZokjTlp9fEsXeFgZ1dCK5FtD2gpb8ak
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=6fj5bqy5ypyad2lqfo7l56cnica6ka
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 18/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on howstuffworks.com 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on howstuffworks.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- PHP · not on howstuffworks.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on howstuffworks.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on howstuffworks.com 7/20
- WordPress · not on howstuffworks.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on howstuffworks.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on howstuffworks.com 6/20
- OneTrust 6/20
- jQuery · not on howstuffworks.com 6/20
- Apple Business · not on howstuffworks.com 6/20