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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.

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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

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

7 of the 60 sites closest to How-To Geek match.

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anandtech.com English No trackers

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TechPowerUp techpowerup.com English No trackers

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Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
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Trashbox.ru trashbox.ru Russian No trackers

Trashbox.ru

Российский портал о технологиях и культуре с каталогом приложений и функциями сообщества. Новости, статьи и обзоры, проверенные советы и лучшие мемы.
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GIGA giga.de Top 10K German No trackers

GIGA | News und Tipps zu Android, Apple, Games, Entertainment, Tech und Haushalt

Bei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund um Technik, Games und Entertainment.
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Netzwelt netzwelt.de German No trackers

NETZWELT | Tests, Downloads, Anleitungen, Kaufberatungen & Videos

Netzwelt.de bietet Testberichte, Downloads, Anleitungen und ausführliche Informationen wie Kaufberatungen & Videos zu Smartphones, Tablet-PCs, Notebooks, Software, Fernseher und Smart Home.
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LWN.net lwn.net English No trackers

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computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
- Google Search Console
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vc.ru Top 10K Russian No trackers

vc.ru — бизнес, технологии, идеи, модели роста, стартапы

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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: 37 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.

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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

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