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.
14 of the 60 sites closest to The Independent match.
- 01
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 - 02
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Very close - 03
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 - 04
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 05
The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe
News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine
Very close - 06
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 07
Diari ARA | News from the leading Catalan newspaper
Leading Catalan newspaper: read the latest news reports and articles to find out what is happening in Catalonia, Spain and the world
Very close - 08
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
Very close - 09
NBC News - Breaking Headlines and Video Reports on World, U.S. and Local Angles | NBC News
Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.
Very close - 10
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 11
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 12
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close - 13
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 14
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 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
Sitemaps
, 2,280,715 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
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