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PC Gamer
Who runs PC Gamer, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video game media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- PCGamesN
Measured from PC Gamer’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PC Gamer01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs PC Gamer
PC Gamer pcgamer.com
Wikidata: British-American video game magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What PC Gamer 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
10 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Sourcepoint
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
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 PC Gamer
None of the 60 sites closest to PC Gamer 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 PC Gamer 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 ms
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-border-spacing-x:
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lon4229-LON, cache-ber1080045-BER
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-142.awsdns-17.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: CC462E6DF91492086145CA5EBDCB615E
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: nEMWGpFpnijlLQ_wncYhmsfYlcPGMIyI2uRKCDpKKIM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=b6qevwfig6gpzawfc76chgieq9ek2c
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- Google Analytics · not on pcgamer.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- PHP · not on pcgamer.com 8/20
- WordPress · not on pcgamer.com 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on pcgamer.com 8/20
- Comscore 7/20
- nginx · not on pcgamer.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on pcgamer.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on pcgamer.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pcgamer.com 4/20
- Fastly 4/20