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The Mercury News
Who runs The Mercury News, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest daily newspaper alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- San Francisco Chronicle
Measured from The Mercury News’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Mercury News01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Mercury News
The Mercury News mercurynews.com
The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
Wikidata: daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, United States, since 1851
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Mercury News 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
3 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
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 The Mercury News
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Mercury News, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Bay Area news, sports, tech, food
Exclusive Bay Area and San Francisco breaking news, sports, tech, and food and wine coverage, plus enhanced coverage of Giants, 49ers and Warriors
Very close - 02 The Sacramento Bee sacbee.com
newspaper in Sacramento, California
Very close - 03
East Bay Times - Contra Costa and Alameda county news, sports, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary
East BayTimes is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Contra Costa County, Alameda County, Oakland and beyond
Very close - 04
SFGATE: San Francisco Bay Area News, Sports, Culture, Travel, Food, California Parks
Today's San Francisco Bay Area news, plus the latest in sports, weather, food, politics, culture, tech, Tahoe and national parks.
Very close - 05
News from California, across the nation and world - Los Angeles Times
The L.A. Times is a leading source of breaking news, entertainment, sports, politics, and more for Southern California and the world.
Very close - 06
Los Angeles Daily News
The Los Angeles Daily News is the local news source for Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley region, providing breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, things to do, opinion, photos, videos and more from L.A.
Very close - 07
SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports
SFist is San Francisco's source for fun, witty, & serious news. With updates about restaurants, events, sports, politics & more, SFist reaches millions of users in California.
Very close - 08
Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au
Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.
Very close - 09
Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes
American daily newspaper
Close - 10
San Antonio Express-News | News, Sports, Business | ExpressNews.com
Stay on top of the latest in San Antonio news, sports and business from the San Antonio Express-News on ExpressNews.com.
Close - 11
The Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimedia
The Straits Times - Get latest breaking news, business, sports, lifestyle, tech & multimedia and more news in Singapore, Asia & rest of the world at straitstimes.com.
Close - 12
The Seattle Times | Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Close - 13
Latest & Breaking News Melbourne, Victoria | The Age
The Age has the latest local news on Melbourne, Victoria. Read National News from Australia, World News, Business News and Breaking News stories.
Close - 14
New York Post – Breaking News, Top Headlines, Photos & Videos
Your source for breaking news, photos, and videos about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.
Close - 15
Orange County Register: Local News, Sports and Things to Do
OCRegister.com covers local news in Orange County, CA, California and national news, sports, things to do and the best places to eat, business and the Orange County housing market.
Close - 16 Independent Online iol.co.za
South African news site
Very close - 17
Dallas News | Breaking News for DFW, Texas, World
Find breaking news, investigations, reviews and opinion on business, sports, arts, entertainment, food, real estate, crime and more at dallasnews.com.
Close - 18
חדשות היום, כלכלה, ספורט, רכילות, בריאות, טכנולוגיה | מעריב
האתר הרשמי של עיתון מעריב, כל חדשות היום מהארץ ומהעולם במקום אחד. מבזקי חדשות, כתבות כלכלה, ספורט, רכילות, בריאות, טכנולוגיה מהארץ ומהעולם.
Close - 19 Herald Sun heraldsun.com.au
Australian tabloid newspaper
Close - 20
American daily newspaper
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Mercury News’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Mercury News 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 The Mercury News 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 57 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Mercury News’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
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- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js?ver=3.5.1
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spfbang.digitalfirstmedia.com…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1650.awsdns-14.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 4B535F7EB2971D1FCBA5D1D3E3E292C3
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=0TyIZcbLmgSwoVohQ9GWaLbZq22eAkpviTlcN…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=IBuiEqAaXT9PMPVWqOxfMd52-1NWibTg5tHIpl01as4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=rhu5s1i15r1vqowtioy7vrrcaljnkn
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on mercurynews.com 13/20
- Meta Business Suite 13/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- GlobalSign 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on mercurynews.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools 9/20
- Google Fonts 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Adobe · not on mercurynews.com 7/20
- Atlassian · not on mercurynews.com 6/20
- Fastly · not on mercurynews.com 6/20
- React · not on mercurynews.com 6/20
- New Relic · not on mercurynews.com 5/20
- Next.js · not on mercurynews.com 5/20