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.
17 of the 60 sites closest to MedlinePlus match.
- 01
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
Very close - 02
ClinicalTrials.gov
United States government registry of clinical trials
Very close - 03
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 - 04
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 - 05
Home - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | CMS
United States federal agency
Very close - 06
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 - 07
Language selection | Belgium.be
country in western Europe
Very close - 08
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Very close - 09
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close - 10
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 11
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 12
CIA
national foreign intelligence agency of the United States
Very close - 13
Information from the Government of the Netherlands | Government.nl
executive administration body in the Netherlands
Close - 14
Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace® | HealthCare.gov
Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®. Official government website.
Close - 15
Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
Close - 16
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Close - 17
Home Page
API endpoint
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 233 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