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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 Geek01 · 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to How-To Geek
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to How-To Geek, thumbs down if it isn’t.
7 of the 60 sites closest to How-To Geek match.
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Very close - 02
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 03
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
Very close - 04
Comparitech - Tech researched, compared and rated
Tech researched, compared and rated
Very close - 05
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close - 06
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 07
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles How-To Geek’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones How-To Geek 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 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to How-To Geek’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
- 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.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 18/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- PHP 13/20
- WordPress 13/20
- nginx 11/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on howtogeek.com 11/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on howtogeek.com 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on howtogeek.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on howtogeek.com 7/20
- Amazon SES 6/20
- Google Analytics 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on howtogeek.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on howtogeek.com 6/20
- jsDelivr 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on howtogeek.com 5/20