mercurynews.com
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
None of the 60 sites closest to The Mercury News 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 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 and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 50 ms
Built with
- 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