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.

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than MetroNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

8 of the 60 sites closest to Metro match.

  1. 01
    Bild bild.de Top 1K German No trackers

    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.

    Compare Bild with Metro →
  2. 02
    Aftonbladet aftonbladet.se Top 10K Swedish No trackers

    Aftonbladet

    Aftonbladet är Sveriges primära och mest engagerande nyhetskälla. Genom journalistiken värnar vi sanningen och granskar makten.

    Compare Aftonbladet with Metro →
  3. 03
    Iltalehti iltalehti.fi Top 10K Finnish No trackers

    Iltalehti | IL - Suomen suurin uutispalvelu

    Uutiset, urheilu, viihde, talous, sää, terveys, ruoka, matkailu, autot ja tyyli – Iltalehti, kaikki tuoreet uutiset yhdestä osoitteesta kellon ympäri!

    Compare Iltalehti with Metro →
  4. 04
    British Broadcasting Corporation bbc.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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

    Compare British Broadcasting Corporation with Metro →
  5. 05
    Refinery29 refinery29.com English No trackers

    Refinery29 UK

    Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily

    Compare Refinery29 with Metro →
  6. 06
    NRC nrc.nl Dutch No trackers

    NRC - Nieuws, achtergronden en onderzoeksjournalistiek

    Nieuws, duiding, analyse en onderzoeksjournalistiek over onderwerpen die er echt toe doen. Feitelijk, betrouwbaar, diepgravend en genuanceerd.

    Compare NRC with Metro →
  7. 07
    Handelsblatt handelsblatt.com Top 10K German No trackers

    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.

    Compare Handelsblatt with Metro →
  8. 08
    WELT welt.de Top 1K German No trackers

    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 ...

    Compare WELT with Metro →

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

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
9,217
Vector
384-d
Query
36 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

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