macworld.com
Macworld
Who runs Macworld, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- MacRumors
Measured from Macworld’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Macworld01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Macworld
Macworld macworld.com
Macworld is your ultimate guide to Apple's product universe, explaining what's new, what's best and how to make the most out of the products you love.
Wikidata: magazine and website dedicated to Apple products
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Macworld 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
15 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
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 Macworld
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Macworld, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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MacRumors: Apple News and Rumors
Apple News and Rumors
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iMore - Apple News, Reviews, Deals, & Help | Learn more. Be more.
The ultimate guide to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and Apple Watch. Don't miss our news, reviews, & how-tos, and the latest on MacOS and iOS.
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9to5Mac - Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day
Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day
Very close - 04
Cult of Mac | Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.
Cult of Mac | Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.
Very close - 05
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
see all latest
Very close - 06
CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Very close - 07
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close - 08
Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Very close - 09
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close - 10
PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
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GSMArena.com - mobile phone reviews, news, specifications and more...
GSMArena.com - The ultimate resource for GSM handset information
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WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED
We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered.
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MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
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American news website
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Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
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Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
Very close - 17
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 - 18
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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English-language computer magazine
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Macworld’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Macworld 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 Macworld 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Macworld’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 page source: /wp-includes/
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/ljj4knf.css?ver=1.0.0
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
- Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spfa.cpmails.com inc…
- Mimecast MX usb-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS elle.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- DocuSign TXT docusign=73a5c278-8642-4d93-9263-d0cac6fa5736
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ZyK4dvWQ25T7AiA8_vlMH2wUzZj71Nv6bfjKzxT2R_k
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=phqkjjnjqmimamw1t154zd4gcfwr28
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on macworld.com 17/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- PHP 10/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on macworld.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- nginx 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on macworld.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Apple Business · not on macworld.com 6/20
- OneTrust · not on macworld.com 6/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- Comscore · not on macworld.com 5/20