howtogeek.com

How-To Geek

Who runs How-To Geek, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news and how-to alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: XDA Developers

Measured from How-To Geek’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

Visit How-To Geek

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs How-To Geek

How-To Geek howtogeek.com

We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.

Wikidata: technology news publication

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What How-To Geek 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

1 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 12 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 1 tool

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to How-To Geek

Fewer trackers than How-To Geek No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to How-To Geek 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 How-To Geek 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 · 9 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,217
Vector: 384-d
Query: 36 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
CDN: jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hls.js@latest
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Email delivery: Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:one.zoho…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=mH3I9782XzfCmyXElhNo6BuMAaqZ2BptWaa_CmgIHAI
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=yom8u5lf7r3qzcbx7m8b74rp5twbg5

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.