medlineplus.gov
MedlinePlus
Who runs MedlinePlus, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest consumer health information alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Mayo Clinic
Measured from MedlinePlus’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MedlinePlus01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus medlineplus.gov
Find information on health conditions, wellness issues, and more in easy-to-read language on MedlinePlus, the up-to-date, trusted health information site from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine.
Wikidata: online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What MedlinePlus 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
3 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MedlinePlus
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MedlinePlus, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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medical practice and medical research group based in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Very close - 02
WebMD - Better information. Better health.
The leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information. Providing credible health information, supportive community, and educational services by blending award-winning expertise in content, community services, expert commentary, and medical review.
Very close - 03
Healthline: Medical information and health advice you can trust.
We're committed to being your source for expert health guidance. Come to us in your pursuit of wellness.
Very close - 04
NHS website for England - NHS
Find information and services to help you manage your health.
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Comprehensive Cancer Information - NCI
Accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive cancer information from the U.S. government's principal agency for cancer research.
Very close - 06
Cleveland Clinic: Every Life Deserves World Class Care
Cleveland Clinic, a non-profit academic medical center, provides clinical and hospital care and is a leader in research, education and health information.
Close - 07
health website
Very close - 08 drugs.com Top 10K
online pharmaceutical encyclopedia
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Everyday Health: Trusted Medical Information, Expert Health Advice, News, Tools, and Resources
Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare providers and patient advocates. Learn more about health
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
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US government medical research agency
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Trusted Health Advice | healthdirect
healthdirect provides easy access to trusted, quality health information and advice online and over the phone.
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ClinicalTrials.gov
United States government registry of clinical trials
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KFF - The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news.
KFF is the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism. Our mission is to serve as a nonpartisan source of information for policymakers, the media, the health policy community, and the public.
Very close - 15
Welcome to Medicare | Medicare
The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
Very close - 16
Home | TRICARE
TRICARE is the uniformed services healthcare program for active duty service members, active duty family members, National Guard and Reserve members and their family members, retirees and retiree family members, survivors, and certain former spouses worldwide.
Very close - 17 fda.gov Top 1K
agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services
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RxList - The Internet Drug Index for prescription drug information, interactions, and side effects
Medications and prescription drug information for consumers and medical health professionals. Online database of the most popular drugs and their side effects, interactions, and use.
Very close - 19 NHS Inform nhsinform.scot
Scotland's national health information service
Very close - 20
World Health Organization (WHO)
The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MedlinePlus’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MedlinePlus 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 MedlinePlus 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MedlinePlus’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
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://medlineplus.gov/jslib/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: OsdQ7Adgrm3BELzfuezlCPZLXfg8L0XBuI2ntvEaLFn7LRrIogca4A==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 0CF5E8B8C80F2109372C0349DF901157
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 5TEChV6jApuiofwqh_aM5EZ6UTT0VnkgooZ1qDEJki0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on medlineplus.gov 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on medlineplus.gov 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on medlineplus.gov 7/20
- Apple Business · not on medlineplus.gov 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on medlineplus.gov 6/20
- Atlassian · not on medlineplus.gov 6/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on medlineplus.gov 5/20
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags · not on medlineplus.gov 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on medlineplus.gov 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 5/20
- OpenAI · not on medlineplus.gov 5/20
- Akamai · not on medlineplus.gov 4/20
- Adobe · not on medlineplus.gov 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on medlineplus.gov 4/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on medlineplus.gov 4/20