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.

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   GitBook gitbook.com English Free plan 6 trackers

   The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook

   GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.

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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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    doxygen.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

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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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    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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    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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    SourceForge sourceforge.net Top 1K English 3 trackers

    Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge

    SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.

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    bookstackapp.com English No trackers

    BookStack

    BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

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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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