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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Metro, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Latest UK and World News, Sport and Comment | Express.co.uk
Latest news, showbiz, sport, comment, lifestyle, city, video and pictures from the Daily Express and Sunday Express newspapers and Express.co.uk
Very close - 02
The Mirror: The Heart of Britain
Get the latest news, sport, celebrity gossip, TV, politics and lifestyle from The Mirror. Big stories with a big heart, always with you in mind.
Very close - 03
News, sport, celebrities and gossip | The Sun
Get the latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle from The Sun
Very close - 04
The Daily Star: News with a Wink
All the best news stories, sport & showbiz from the Daily Star, the top destination for big laughs.
Very close - 05
News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.
Very close - 06
London news, sport and culture | The Standard | London Evening Standard | The London Standard
Latest London news, business, sport, culture, celebrity and entertainment from The London Standard
Very close - 07
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
Very close - 08
Celebrity News | Entertainment News | TMZ.com
Breaking the biggest stories in celebrity and entertainment news. Get exclusive access to the latest stories, photos, and video as only TMZ can.
Very close - 09
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 10
Page Six: Latest Celebrity News, Entertainment News & Gossip
Your source for the latest celebrity news, entertainment headlines and celeb gossip, with exclusive stories, photos, video, and more.
Very close - 11
HELLO! - Daily royal, celebrity, fashion, beauty & lifestyle news
HELLO! brings you the latest celebrity & royal news from the UK & around the world, magazine exclusives, fashion, beauty, lifestyle news, celeb babies, weddings, pregnancies and more!
Very close - 12
The Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimedia
The Straits Times - Get latest breaking news, business, sports, lifestyle, tech & multimedia and more news in Singapore, Asia & rest of the world at straitstimes.com.
Very close - 13
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 - 14
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 - 15
British weekly news and international affairs publication (founded 1843)
Very close - 16
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Very close - 17
Maxim
Catering to the modern man with content that promises to seduce, entertain and continuously surprise readers.
Very close - 18
POLITICO – European Politics, Policy, Government News
POLITICO Europe covers the politics, policy and personalities of the European Union. Our coverage includes breaking news, opinion pieces, and features.
Very close - 19
HOLA! USA: Celebrity news, royals, entertainment and lifestyle
Top U.S. Latino publication covering celebrities, entertainment, fashion, beauty, recipes, lifestyle and updates about the world’s royals families.
Very close - 20
Latest News, Breaking News Today, LIVE News, Top News Headlines, India News, Viral Video, Cricket News, Sports News, Entertainment News, Business, Health, Lifestyle News & LIVE Updates| India.com
India.com Breaking News: Live News Updates from across India and the world. India.Com is your gateway to India for latest News, explainers, viral videos, cricket, sports, entertainment, business, health, lifestyle from India and around the world on India.com.
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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 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