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Maxim

Who runs Maxim, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest men's lifestyle magazine alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Esquire

Measured from Maxim’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Maxim

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Catering to the modern man with content that promises to seduce, entertain and continuously surprise readers.

Wikidata: American magazine

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Maxim 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

14 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 6 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
- Google Ad ManagerUS
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- ChartbeatUS
- Google AnalyticsUS
Marketing and email tracking

Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
- MailchimpUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Privacy-friendly analytics

Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
- Cloudflare Web AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Maxim

Fewer trackers than Maxim No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Maxim 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 Maxim 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 · 15 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,215
Vector: 384-d
Query: 30 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://www.maxim.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Analytics: Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Marketing automation: Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 ip4:209.123.17.164 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:mailgun.…
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577cd35beea5c73-HAM
Languages & backends: PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/8.3.36, PleskLin
Email hosting: Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms99231344
Email delivery: Mailgun TXT v=spf1 ip4:209.123.17.164 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:mailgun.…
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS raegan.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=vdLHny5dPsg-NO42TxyJwAbnMRLjpYmQdh4ch…
Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: VZeatQoyKQ7nuD7YVzQ0OeNl0TnO02QX9K4cnEK_HkY

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.