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Imgur
Who runs Imgur, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest image hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Flickr
Measured from Imgur’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Imgur01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Imgur
Imgur imgur.com
Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.
Wikidata: American online image sharing and image hosting service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Imgur 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
11 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
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 Imgur
None of the 60 sites closest to Imgur 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 Imgur 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 · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Prebid.js page source: pbjs.que
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:54.198.157.21 include:mailgun.org include:amazonses.com in…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080042-BER, cache-ber1080042-BER, cache-ber108005…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms20045453
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:54.198.157.21 include:mailgun.org include:amazonses.com in…
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 ip4:54.198.157.21 include:mailgun.org include:amazonses.com in…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-457.awsdns-57.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=zBnQjyxIXRiBvnX39OwQsQjQ0NHRTT8z7jLkSYo…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Kh_iAw1AcwclD3rmGP7pOJp0zBgCwcW1V-L-mUXHMls
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_7qYn368TOF6Au0Hn7KWJ2P
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on imgur.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on imgur.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on imgur.com 5/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- Google Fonts 4/20
- Amazon SES 4/20
- nginx · not on imgur.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on imgur.com 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on imgur.com 3/20
- Fastly 3/20
- Zendesk 3/20
- Stripe · not on imgur.com 2/20
- Apple Business · not on imgur.com 2/20