observation.org
Observation.org
Who runs Observation.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest biodiversity citizen science alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- iNaturalist
Measured from Observation.org’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Observation.org01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Observation.org
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Biodiversity Citizen Science & Monitoring
Wikidata: citizen science platform for biodiversity
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Observation.org 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
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Observation.org’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Observation.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Observation.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Observation.org match.
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A Community for Naturalists · iNaturalist
iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.
Very close - 02
Making sure you're not a bot!
eBird transforms your bird sightings into science and conservation. Plan trips, find birds, track your lists, explore range maps and bird migration—all free.
Very close - 03
IPBES Home page | IPBES secretariat
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is the intergovernmental body which assesses the state of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services.
Very close - 04
Gapminder
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
Very close - 05
Home - Pl@ntNet
With the Pl@ntNet app, identify one plant from a picture, and be part of a citizen science project on plant biodiversity
Very close - 06
AAAS Home | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
international non-profit organization promoting science
Close - 07
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
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Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
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IUCN
international organization
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Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
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Home | Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity and inspire lifelong learning. Watch nature unfold live right now!
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DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
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Home Page
API endpoint
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NORC at the University of Chicago | Research You Can Trust
NORC at the University of Chicago is an objective, nonpartisan research organization that delivers insights and analysis decision-makers trust.
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CGIAR: Science for Humanity's Greatest Challenges | CGIAR System
organization
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
United States federal government agency
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Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage
The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace
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INRAE: research for Agriculture, Food and Environment
INRAE is a public research institute working for the coherent and sustainable development of agriculture, food and the environment.
Close - 20
Crossref
Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Observation.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Observation.org 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 Observation.org 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 90 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Observation.org’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
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms24131272
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:52eeec7fe1c94778fb4f7ba6a2f04e83
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-545.awsdns-04.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=qbbN6pJYtZ0cVfGsXaOb3ErF11N-fGU3NpBXt4BNaJc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on observation.org 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on observation.org 7/20
- jQuery · not on observation.org 7/20
- PHP · not on observation.org 7/20
- Font Awesome · not on observation.org 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on observation.org 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on observation.org 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on observation.org 6/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on observation.org 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Apple Business · not on observation.org 5/20
- Atlassian · not on observation.org 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on observation.org 5/20