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NPL
Who runs NPL, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national metrology institute alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Measured from NPL’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit NPL01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs NPL
NPL npl.co.uk
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK’s National Metrology Institute, providing the measurement capability that underpins the UK’s prosperity and quality of life.
Wikidata: National Measurement Institution of the United Kingdom
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What NPL 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
13 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to NPL
None of the 60 sites closest to NPL 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 NPL 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 · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 51 ms
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.npl.co.uk/_content/Kentico.Content.Web.Rcl/Scripts/jquery-3.5.1.js
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/oee4yod.css
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX npl-co-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=lwHpv3uvl_D0-em7yQCknobHcN9D9s5UYkK53PKTIBs
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Tag Manager 12/20
- PHP · not on npl.co.uk 11/20
- jQuery 9/20
- Atlassian · not on npl.co.uk 8/20
- Apple Business · not on npl.co.uk 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on npl.co.uk 7/20
- WordPress · not on npl.co.uk 6/20
- Drupal · not on npl.co.uk 5/20
- Miro · not on npl.co.uk 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on npl.co.uk 5/20
- DocuSign · not on npl.co.uk 5/20
- OpenAI · not on npl.co.uk 4/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- YouTube embeds 4/20