makeuseof.com
MakeUseOf
Who runs MakeUseOf, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest consumer technology media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Lifehacker
Measured from MakeUseOf’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MakeUseOf01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MakeUseOf
MakeUseOf makeuseof.com
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.
Wikidata: American technology media publication
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What MakeUseOf 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
None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 13 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MakeUseOf
None of the 60 sites closest to MakeUseOf match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MakeUseOf 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 and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hls.js@latest
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:one.zoho…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=CAxaugD_nFh8lAwBX0_fm-0rheocNki0ZTiwESP--Kw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=vfni2281oyr62lwycezyspzglls69v
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- PHP 13/20
- WordPress 13/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on makeuseof.com 12/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on makeuseof.com 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on makeuseof.com 11/20
- nginx 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on makeuseof.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on makeuseof.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on makeuseof.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on makeuseof.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on makeuseof.com 5/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- Amazon SES 5/20