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NTP
Who runs NTP, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open source time synchronization alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NTPsec
Measured from NTP’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit NTP01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs NTP
NTP ntp.org
The NTP Project conducts Research and Development in NTP, a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network to a common timebase.
Wikidata: standard protocol for synchronizing time across devices
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What NTP 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
More than all 19 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
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 NTP
None of the 60 sites closest to NTP 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 NTP 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=O60kZMoa5mBPIKKqd9FSRXcGUhU6s3rzZHzWN…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=1BTIwQr05WxuBXsED2L-cWc-cC7_8NDYKoWMsmAyR3g
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Google Workspace · not on ntp.org 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on ntp.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ntp.org 5/20
- PHP · not on ntp.org 5/20
- jQuery · not on ntp.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server 4/20
- GlobalSign 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on ntp.org 3/20
- nginx · not on ntp.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on ntp.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ntp.org 3/20
- OpenAI · not on ntp.org 3/20
- Fastly · not on ntp.org 2/20
- Google Analytics 2/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ntp.org 2/20