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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to MedlinePlus match.
- 01
NHS website for England - NHS
Find information and services to help you manage your health.
Very close - 02
Comprehensive Cancer Information - NCI
Accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive cancer information from the U.S. government's principal agency for cancer research.
Very close - 03
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 - 04
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
Very close - 05
Trusted Health Advice | healthdirect
healthdirect provides easy access to trusted, quality health information and advice online and over the phone.
Very close - 06
ClinicalTrials.gov
United States government registry of clinical trials
Very close - 07
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 - 08
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 - 09
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 - 10
World Health Organization (WHO)
The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable
Very close - 11
Canada.ca
The Government of Canada website is a single point of access to all programs, services, departments, ministries and organizations of the Government of Canada.
Very close - 12
Diabetes Research, Education, Advocacy | ADA
Leading the fight against the deadly consequences of diabetes for those affected by it through research funding, community services, education and advocacy.
Very close - 13
National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
Very close - 14
Instituto de Salud Carlos III. - ISCIII Portal Web
La misión del ISCIII es contribuir a mejorar la salud de todos los ciudadanos con investigación e innovación en Ciencias de la Salud y Biomedicina.
Very close - 15
Medicaid.gov: The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicaid and CHIP Services | Medicaid
United States social health care program for families and individuals with limited resources
Very close - 16
Home - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | CMS
United States federal agency
Very close - 17
Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage
The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
Very close - 18
Homepage | house.gov
lower house of the United States Congress
Very close - 19
Inserm
L'Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) est le seul organisme de recherche public français entièrement dédié à la santé humaine. Notre objectif : améliorer la santé de tous par le progrès des connaissances sur le vivant et sur les maladies, l’innovation dans les traitements et la recherche en santé publique.
Very close - 20
Language selection | Belgium.be
country in western Europe
Very close
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 62 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