independent.co.uk
The Independent
Who runs The Independent, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online newspaper alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- The Daily Telegraph
Measured from The Independent’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Independent01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Independent
The Independent independent.co.uk
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.
Wikidata: British national daily newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Independent 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
13 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Independent
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Independent, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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British daily broadsheet newspaper
Very close - 02
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
Very close - 03
British daily national newspaper based in London
Very close - 04
UK Home | Daily Mail Online
Daily Mail Online - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Very close - 05
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 06
Latest UK and World News, Sport and Comment | Express.co.uk
Latest news, showbiz, sport, comment, lifestyle, city, video and pictures from the Daily Express and Sunday Express newspapers and Express.co.uk
Very close - 07
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Very close - 08
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 09
The Journal
Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News
Very close - 10
BreakingNews.ie | Irish News | Breaking News from Ireland
Ireland's premier breaking news website providing up to the minute news and sports reports. With e-mail news releases following breaking stories throughout the day
Very close - 11
The Mirror: The Heart of Britain
Get the latest news, sport, celebrity gossip, TV, politics and lifestyle from The Mirror. Big stories with a big heart, always with you in mind.
Very close - 12
American news publication
Very close - 13
International Business Times - Business News, Financial news
International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.
Very close - 14
Diario online con noticias de última hora y opinión
Noticias de última hora sobre la actualidad en España y el mundo, deportes, cultura, economía, política, opinión, sociedad y tecnología en Libertad Digital
Very close - 15
Il Post
Gli articoli, le rassegne, i blog, le foto, tutto quello che arriva dal mondo e dalla rete.
Very close - 16
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Very close - 17
News, sport, celebrities and gossip | The Sun
Get the latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle from The Sun
Very close - 18
Latest News, Breaking News Today, LIVE News, Top News Headlines, India News, Viral Video, Cricket News, Sports News, Entertainment News, Business, Health, Lifestyle News & LIVE Updates| India.com
India.com Breaking News: Live News Updates from across India and the world. India.Com is your gateway to India for latest News, explainers, viral videos, cricket, sports, entertainment, business, health, lifestyle from India and around the world on India.com.
Very close - 19
iefimerida.gr - Ειδήσεις και νέα - Η κορυφαία εφημερίδα online
Ειδήσεις και νέα με άποψη από την κορυφαία online εφημερίδα στην Ελλάδα. iefimerida news, ροή ειδήσεων: Πολιτική, Οικονομία, Κόσμος, Σπορ, Υγεία, Πολιτισμός, Media, Βίντεο
Very close - 20
British weekly news and international affairs publication (founded 1843)
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Independent’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Independent 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 The Independent 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 · 18 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 63 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Independent’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
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
- Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.google.com inc…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lhr-egll1980069-LHR, cache-ber1080048-BER, cache-ber1…
- Authentication
- Firebase page source: .firebaseapp.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms14560256
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.google.com inc…
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.google.com inc…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS lars.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5c874982d9eb77c27639f75fe9649403668793e47…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=RM9N27RqIQhlhX0B
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=zfCNvJt0iTcEchLrE0nrimsdl4h4m4zVTSJYOc…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=7jSyuxXF8wVTqjz3bvlLiGFkpFtli5tP9gkqVJCmg1s
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=romovgbm3nyrpvudi6wheb7kank3yi
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_y3Lp-IWWQx28ozGnH6HXGA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Google Ad Manager 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 12/20
- Adobe 11/20
- Atlassian · not on independent.co.uk 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on independent.co.uk 8/20
- Stripe · not on independent.co.uk 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- nginx · not on independent.co.uk 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on independent.co.uk 6/20
- PHP · not on independent.co.uk 6/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Miro · not on independent.co.uk 5/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on independent.co.uk 5/20