metoffice.gov.uk
Met Office
Who runs Met Office, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national weather service alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- National Weather Service
Measured from Met Office’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Met Office01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Met Office
Met Office metoffice.gov.uk
Met Office weather forecasts for the UK. World leading weather services for the public.
Wikidata: United Kingdom's national weather service
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Met Office 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
13 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Met Office
None of the 60 sites closest to Met Office 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 Met Office 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 42 ms
Built with
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: TE-d7m91HRoMbJV_FzsBVss0m_8SR0mLaaeF8aef169Wse2k8xvNTw==
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 ip4:151.170.240.81 ip4:151.170.240.82 ip4:18.196.215.67 ip4:15…
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS use4.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=IaAE8Wc8lOVy7drQ
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=fCyieFbMOSTL+D/K0DokXpV2XIkGSpKCRtAb/qz…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: LR7Q3483mkrmLcJJZpzIbl48mNnTbBDVzjA3GqT3Q2M
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- jQuery · not on metoffice.gov.uk 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 5/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- Adobe · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- DocuSign · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- PHP · not on metoffice.gov.uk 4/20
- Google Ad Manager 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metoffice.gov.uk 3/20
- nginx · not on metoffice.gov.uk 3/20
- Drupal · not on metoffice.gov.uk 3/20