metro.co.uk
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
None of the 60 sites closest to Metro 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 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 and search numbers · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 58 ms
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