Read the Docs

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Read the Docs

Read the Docs readthedocs.org

Read the Docs is a documentation building and hosting platform aimed at helping developers creating documentation from code with versioned documentation, integrated search, pull request previews and more.

Wikidata: software documentation hosting website

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What Read the Docs 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.

20 of the 60 sites closest to Read the Docs match.

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   ReadMe readme.com English 2 trackers

   ReadMe · Developer-friendly API documentation

   ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.

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   Mintlify mintlify.com English Free plan 1 tracker

   Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents

   Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.

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   Archbee archbee.com English 2 trackers

   Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform

   Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.

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   Netlify netlify.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

   Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

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   sphinx-doc.org English No trackers

   Sphinx — Sphinx documentation

   documentation generator which converts reStructuredText files into HTML

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   Java Doc javadoc.io English 1 tracker

   Free Java Doc hosting for open source projects - javadoc.io

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   GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

   GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

   Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

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   docs.rs Top 10K English No trackers

   Docs.rs

   official documentation website for Rust libraries

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   Gitea gitea.com Top 10K 1 tracker

   Gitea Official Website

   Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

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    Open Source googlesource.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Google Open Source

    Google <3 Open Source

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    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.

    Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.

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    RubyDoc.info rubydoc.info 1 tracker

    RubyDoc.info: Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects

    Documenting RubyGems, Stdlib, and GitHub Projects

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    Gitee gitee.com Top 10K Chinese No trackers

    Gitee - 基于 Git 的代码托管和研发协作平台

    面向企业提供一站式研发管理解决方案，包括代码管理、项目管理、文档协作、测试管理、CICD、效能度量等多个模块，支持SaaS、私有化等多种部署方式，帮助企业有序规划和管理研发过程，提升研发效率和质量。

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    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering

    Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.

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    SourceHut sourcehut.org English No trackers

    sourcehut - the hacker's forge

    sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

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    Render render.com English 2 trackers

    Render | The cloud for builders

    Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web.

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    Forgejo forgejo.org English No trackers

    Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.

    Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

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    Document360 document360.com English 2 trackers

    Document360: AI Knowledge Base Software for Documentation

    Start building intelligent documentation today with AI search, AI chatbot, and writing tools inside Document360, the knowledge base trusted by teams worldwide.

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    Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

    Polish wiki hosting corporation

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    Launchpad launchpad.net Top 1K English No trackers

    Launchpad

    software forge

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Read the Docs adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

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