laughingsquid.com
Laughing Squid
Who runs Laughing Squid, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest culture blog alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Jason Kottke
Measured from Laughing Squid’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Laughing Squid01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Laughing Squid
Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Wikidata: American art and culture blog
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Laughing Squid 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
7 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Laughing Squid
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Laughing Squid, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Laughing Squid match.
- 01
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
Very close - 02
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Very close - 03
Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger
You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.
Very close - 04
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 - 05
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
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
Refinery29 UK
Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
Very close - 08
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close - 09
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 - 10
The Stack Overflow Blog - Stack Overflow
Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming, from Stack Overflow.
Very close - 11
Anime News Network
English/French website about anime, manga, and Japanese culture
Very close - 12
VERANDA - Beautiful Home Decorating Ideas
Home design and interior decorating is what VERANDA magazine is all about.
Very close - 13
Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
Very close - 14
Discover and Shop What's Next | Highsnobiety
Highsnobiety is a global fashion and media brand passionate about product and the stories that shape them. Discover and shop what's next.
Very close - 15
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close - 16
A List Apart – For people who make websites
For people who make websites
Very close - 17
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Very close - 18
Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...
Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...
Very close - 19
Pinkvilla: Latest Entertainment , Box Office Collections, Movie Reviews, Latest Videos, Korean, Fashion & Lifestyle & More
Get all the latest trends & breaking on entertainment & Lifestyle. Catch latest updates on Bollywood, Hollywood, Box Office, Movies, Reviews, K-Pop, TV , Fashion, Lifestyle & more.
Very close - 20
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
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Laughing Squid’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Laughing Squid 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 Laughing Squid 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 · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 30 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Laughing Squid’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 meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gail.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=jlnBtzoM-8PRZf4q4GOYyu-RCogRnQIKMTcdZHGHa3U
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 025390F08D242EF9553D9FB91E800B51
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: jJyLGaYS5OcLQKNjQ3hN9jTVV6CMcalfPNN3lA3lir4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=5tnff0y6vt7fo4q1s8p3lkbfwb9vwh
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-8WBu3tu8uqeH2r9p8PyX79cC
- Yandex Webmaster meta yandex-verification: a843a3bd30673488
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on laughingsquid.com 18/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- PHP 11/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Google Analytics 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on laughingsquid.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on laughingsquid.com 8/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on laughingsquid.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on laughingsquid.com 7/20
- React · not on laughingsquid.com 7/20
- nginx 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on laughingsquid.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on laughingsquid.com 6/20