makezine.com
makezine.com
Who runs makezine.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest DIY maker magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Hackaday
Measured from makezine.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit makezine.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs makezine.com
makezine.com
Make: celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will.
Wikidata: American DIY magazine (2005-)
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What makezine.com 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
2 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to makezine.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to makezine.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
10 of the 60 sites closest to makezine.com match.
- 01
Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
Very close - 02
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close - 03
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 04
Healthy Recipes and Relationship Advice to Live Well Every Day - Woman's Day
Make Woman's Day your source for healthy recipes, relationship advice and DIY home decor ideas. Woman's Day is the destination of choice for women who want to live well.
Close - 05
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Close - 06
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
Close - 07
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.
Close - 08
A List Apart – For people who make websites
For people who make websites
Close - 09
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Close - 10
VERANDA - Beautiful Home Decorating Ideas
Home design and interior decorating is what VERANDA magazine is all about.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles makezine.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones makezine.com 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 makezine.com 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 · 17 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to makezine.com’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-content/
- Ecommerce
- Shopify page source: cdn.shopify.com/
- JavaScript frameworks
- React asset https://c0.wp.com/c/7.1.4/wp-includes/js/dist/vendor/react.min.js
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://c0.wp.com/c/7.1.4/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://kit.fontawesome.com/b9da6f1400.js?ver=7.1.4
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a288cf8cb1e5-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
- Authentication
- Auth0 page source: cdn.auth0.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS elmo.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 3ce2135e4aea8e046ce280dce5c2375f
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: pQ2dcN4yNKUknsMzwu1op8lsEyGDWtUYO7Cr7ZtpfsA
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ovdp0zr9kx4lmoikayyx2ocddeyo1q
- Yandex Webmaster meta yandex-verification: d3d0982508ca9228
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- PHP 9/20
- WordPress 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on makezine.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager 8/20
- Mailchimp · not on makezine.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on makezine.com 6/20
- nginx · not on makezine.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on makezine.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on makezine.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on makezine.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on makezine.com 5/20