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Library of Congress
Who runs Library of Congress, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Digital Public Library of America
Measured from Library of Congress’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Library of Congress01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Library of Congress
Library of Congress loc.gov
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
Wikidata: (de facto) national library of the United States of America
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Library of Congress 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
6 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Library of Congress
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Library of Congress, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.
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National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
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The British Library - the national Library of the UK
Visit the national library of the UK. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items. Join us.
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Home | National Library of Australia (NLA)
national reference library in Canberra, Australia
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group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government
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Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana
Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions
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national library
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KB, National Library of the Netherlands
View the digital, printed and written heritage collections of the Netherlands: manuscripts, catalogues, digital literacy services, books, magazines, newspapers and maps.
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National Library of Scotland | Home
Learn about who we are and what we do at the National Library of Scotland. Read stories, donate, request an item, or find out how to research our collections.
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Accueil | BnF – Site institutionnel
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DNB - Startseite
Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek ist die zentrale Archivbibliothek Deutschlands.
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library in Spain
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U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Office Homepage
Very close - 14
Welcome to The National Archives
Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
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bicameral legislature of the United States
Very close - 17 National Archives of Australia naa.gov.au
national archives of Australia
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GovInfo | U.S. Government Publishing Office
U.S. Government Publishing Office
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upper house of the United States Congress
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NPS.gov Homepage (U.S. National Park Service)
The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Library of Congress’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Library of Congress 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 Library of Congress 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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Library of Congress’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
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- Tag managers
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on loc.gov 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on loc.gov 5/20
- Adobe 5/20
- Apple Business · not on loc.gov 5/20
- jsDelivr · not on loc.gov 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on loc.gov 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on loc.gov 4/20
- Drupal · not on loc.gov 4/20
- PHP · not on loc.gov 4/20
- Font Awesome 4/20