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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.
8 of the 60 sites closest to Metro match.
- 01
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 - 02
Refinery29 UK
Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
Very close - 03
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 04
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 05
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close - 06
Fashion Magazine - Beauty Tips, Fashion Trends, & Celebrity News - ELLE
Watch runway shows from the hottest fashion designers, scope out the best-dressed celebrities on the red carpet, discover the latest and greatest beauty products to maintain a healthy glow, and get a sneak peek at our celebrity cover shoots.
Very close - 07
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 08
VERANDA - Beautiful Home Decorating Ideas
Home design and interior decorating is what VERANDA magazine is all about.
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
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 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