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Metacritic
Who runs Metacritic, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest review aggregator alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Rotten Tomatoes
Measured from Metacritic’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Metacritic01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Metacritic
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Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each item was reviewed.
Wikidata: website that aggregates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Metacritic 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
7 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Metacritic
None of the 60 sites closest to Metacritic 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 Metacritic 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 · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Monitoring
- Sentry page source: .ingest.sentry.io
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a3f04df0b4c8-HAM
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Authentication
- Firebase page source: .firebaseapp.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms69493144
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 a mx include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com ~all
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ToKOLz4HFo4xPAM-UQDEM7ML8pdnj6bwjhlsfxc4AnE
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- PHP · not on metacritic.com 10/20
- WordPress · not on metacritic.com 10/20
- Amazon SES · not on metacritic.com 10/20
- Google Analytics · not on metacritic.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on metacritic.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on metacritic.com 7/20
- nginx · not on metacritic.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Comscore · not on metacritic.com 6/20
- jsDelivr · not on metacritic.com 6/20
- OneTrust 6/20
- Atlassian · not on metacritic.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metacritic.com 6/20