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National Geographic
Who runs National Geographic, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest science and nature magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Smithsonian Magazine
Measured from National Geographic’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit National Geographic01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs National Geographic
National Geographic nationalgeographic.com
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
Wikidata: monthly geography, history, nature, and science magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What National Geographic 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.
trackers that follow visitors
Fewer than all 15 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on National Geographic’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to National Geographic
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to National Geographic, thumbs down if it isn’t.
14 of the 60 sites closest to National Geographic match.
- 01
Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Very close - 02
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Very close - 03
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news
Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.
Very close - 04
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 - 05
American basic cable and satellite television channel
Close - 06
NBC News - Breaking Headlines and Video Reports on World, U.S. and Local Angles | NBC News
Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.
Very close - 07
Nature
First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives ground-breaking discovery, and is read by thought-leaders and decision-makers around the world.
Very close - 08
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Very close - 09
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 - 10
Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
Close - 11
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Close - 12
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Close - 13
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 - 14
Refinery29 UK
Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles National Geographic’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones National Geographic 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 National Geographic 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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 46 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to National Geographic’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
- Monitoring
- Datadog RUM page source: datadoghq-browser-agent.com
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: MKodDezQuE4JJ6b2WUN165jnxhgmea8leJ5uf6pMoJZrcqMaeFZC7g==
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX nationalgeographic-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=012b7d24aff9766444b9232173abb52ef026139e5…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=5lqJwtfJPMHqC/aGvT/7s2BR53IHCs9P6vFjCQY…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=5WNnmPMKPkvtFdhx94xNnsjdVQhTlvYGo0g0iF2nh7Y
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=s2vntb2m7i6eo2t3r7wrfwehg5ojke
Sitemaps
, 50,996 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on nationalgeographic.com 12/20
- Google Workspace · not on nationalgeographic.com 12/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- GlobalSign · not on nationalgeographic.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on nationalgeographic.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on nationalgeographic.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on nationalgeographic.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on nationalgeographic.com 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on nationalgeographic.com 7/20
- Amazon CloudFront 6/20
- OneTrust · not on nationalgeographic.com 6/20
- Adobe 5/20
- Fastly · not on nationalgeographic.com 5/20
- JW Player · not on nationalgeographic.com 5/20