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Metro
Who runs Metro, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest tabloid newspaper alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Daily Express
Measured from Metro’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Metro01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Metro
Metro metro.co.uk
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Wikidata: British free daily newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Metro 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
2 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 15 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Metro
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Metro, thumbs down if it isn’t.
19 of the 60 sites closest to Metro match.
- 01
Aktuelle Nachrichten | BILD.de
BILD.de: Die Seite 1 für aktuelle Nachrichten und Themen, Bilder und Videos aus den Bereichen News, Wirtschaft, Politik, Show, Sport, und Promis.
Very close - 02
Aftonbladet
Aftonbladet är Sveriges primära och mest engagerande nyhetskälla. Genom journalistiken värnar vi sanningen och granskar makten.
Very close - 03
Blick: Nachrichten und Schlagzeilen aus der Schweiz und aller Welt
Aktuelle Nachrichten, News und Kommentare aus Wirtschaft, Politik, Sport, Kultur, Gesellschaft, Wissen & Lifestyle auf Blick.ch. Jetzt App downloaden.
Very close - 04
Iltalehti | IL - Suomen suurin uutispalvelu
Uutiset, urheilu, viihde, talous, sää, terveys, ruoka, matkailu, autot ja tyyli – Iltalehti, kaikki tuoreet uutiset yhdestä osoitteesta kellon ympäri!
Very close - 05
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
Very close - 06
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 07
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 08
Refinery29 UK
Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
Very close - 09
NRC - Nieuws, achtergronden en onderzoeksjournalistiek
Nieuws, duiding, analyse en onderzoeksjournalistiek over onderwerpen die er echt toe doen. Feitelijk, betrouwbaar, diepgravend en genuanceerd.
Very close - 10
Handelsblatt - Nachrichten aus Finanzen, Wirtschaft und Politik
Auf Handelsblatt lesen Sie News über Unternehmen, Finanzen, Politik und Technik. ➤ Die Nr. 1 der Finanz- & Wirtschaftszeitungen. ➤ Substanz entscheidet.
Very close - 11
Nachrichten, Hintergründe & Reportagen | STERN.de
Auf STERN.DE finden Sie News, spannende Hintergründe sowie bildstarke Reportagen aus allen Bereichen: Von Politik und Wirtschaft bis Kultur und Wissenschaft.
Very close - 12
Новости России и мира сегодня — последние новости на Коммерсантъ
Актуальные новости, объективный анализ и эксклюзивные комментарии о важнейших событиях и трендах
Very close - 13
WELT - Aktuelle Nachrichten, News, Hintergründe & Videos
Nachrichten, Kommentare, Liveticker, Videos und Streams sowie News aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Finanzen, Wetter, Sport, Fußball, Kultur, Reise und Internet ...
Very close - 14
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 15
RTL.de: Nachrichten, die Deutschland bewegen.
Alles, was ihr braucht, auf einen Blick: Nachrichten, TV- und Streaming-Highlights, Star-News, RTL-Sportereignisse sowie Lifestyle- und Ratgeber-Informationen.
Very close - 16
Delo.si
Najbolj verodostojne zgodbe s področja notranje in zunanje politike, gospodarstva, športa, kulture in zabave. Naše delo je, da vi veste več.
Very close - 17
Aktuelle Nachrichten online - FAZ.NET
News, Nachrichten und aktuelle Meldungen aus allen Ressorts. Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport, Feuilleton und Finanzen im Überblick.
Very close - 18
Jutarnji list - Najnovije vijesti iz Hrvatske i svijeta
Jutarnji list – vodeći hrvatski dnevni portal s najnovijim vijestima iz politike, sporta, kulture i ekonomije. Pratite ekskluzivne reportaže i analize.
Very close - 19
Gulf News: Latest UAE news, Dubai news, Business, travel news, Dubai Gold rate, prayer time, cinema
Get the latest update on UAE, business, life style, UAE jobs, gold rate, Exchange rate, UAE holidays, Dubai police, RTA and prayer times from UAE’s largest news portal.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Metro’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Metro 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 Metro 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 · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,213
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Metro’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
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=112E45BC98B953FBE2B1AC6F943D5842F32F541C54504096A…
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:aspmx.sailthru.com …
- Microsoft 365 MX metro-co-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a24-65.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5c874982d9eb77c27639f75fe9649403668793e47…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=YVO51xB8CMklZCk2cV3OMCVY9wIEP2GoyyujEBz…
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 11110DC8D42E74E13F24B3A18E7CFB8A
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=x1mgnxos79dq
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: LeMDJtEkFI9nhykTNIyjEFjWsywI4Emu0vB1VDmeMVU
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on metro.co.uk 13/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on metro.co.uk 11/20
- Adobe 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metro.co.uk 10/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on metro.co.uk 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on metro.co.uk 7/20
- Apple Business · not on metro.co.uk 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on metro.co.uk 7/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on metro.co.uk 6/20
- Comscore · not on metro.co.uk 6/20
- Zoom · not on metro.co.uk 6/20