manchester.ac.uk
University of Manchester
Who runs University of Manchester, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest higher education alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- University of Leeds
Measured from University of Manchester’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit University of Manchester01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs University of Manchester
University of Manchester manchester.ac.uk
The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single-site university and a Russell Group member, known for research excellence and a diverse student community.
Wikidata: public research university in Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What University of Manchester 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
13 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
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 University of Manchester
None of the 60 sites closest to University of Manchester 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 University of Manchester 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 ms
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/edewp/common/js/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,600,700
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- LinkedIn Insight Tag page source: snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: QjynlOWrP8GXCs_A9NTMeSH7v1sjRalY165QB-P4KWV7533MhRV7xA==
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.68 (Debian)
- Languages & backends
- PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/8.5.12
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Proofpoint MX mxb-0053d701.gslb.pphosted.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=DTclkewWdE4wjvI/3OSjwuSCRTV41v/RPZyYKRn…
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=C4BF0E79BF41F98B9B6FCA2F19185016
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=bCMX5_dpJPxRLyMi9sSLkfHTC8Eytw0V9ABPnFNWP5E
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on manchester.ac.uk 16/20
- Google Tag Manager 13/20
- Adobe · not on manchester.ac.uk 13/20
- Atlassian 12/20
- Brevo · not on manchester.ac.uk 9/20
- Apple Business · not on manchester.ac.uk 7/20
- PHP 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on manchester.ac.uk 6/20
- DocuSign · not on manchester.ac.uk 6/20
- jQuery 5/20
- Miro · not on manchester.ac.uk 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on manchester.ac.uk 4/20
- Drupal · not on manchester.ac.uk 4/20
- Google Fonts 4/20
- OneTrust 4/20