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Popular Science

Who runs Popular Science, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest science and technology media alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Scientific American

Measured from Popular Science’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Popular Science

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Awe-inspiring science reporting, technology news, and DIY projects. Skunks to space robots, primates to climates. That's Popular Science, for over 150 years strong.

Wikidata: American monthly magazine about science

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Popular Science 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

17 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust
US company: 7 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
- Google Ad ManagerUS
- Prebid.js
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking

Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
- MailchimpUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Google FontsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Popular Science

Fewer trackers than Popular Science No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Popular Science 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 Popular Science 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 · 20 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,205
Vector: 384-d
Query: 54 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
Fonts: Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Analytics: Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
Marketing automation: Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 a mx include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:_spf.google.com includ…
Cookie consent: OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS melinda.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=cd8dab640ab786a9457c8757f4188cd682dd687a6…
Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=QUsZX4LdPWTYZgx09JhShFot27EJnUl/5CyxXFs…
DocuSign TXT docusign=96032995-9e93-43ad-ae66-3fadeea8bd30
GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=KaParXxs1OHDy7o8CMbPpHBN-2m_mzwdPqKMMQ…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=lELgCbJG9-am41-9VdjfBKnfNZ4NUfQVwz3JZYZN9JU
OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-NmnopaLu0KwbqfkEzLbHZiER

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.