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Rolling Stone
Who runs Rolling Stone, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest music and entertainment magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Spin
Measured from Rolling Stone’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Rolling Stone01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone rollingstone.com
Get the latest Rolling Stone news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone.
Wikidata: American monthly music magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Rolling Stone 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
13 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 5 tools
- EU company
- 1 tool
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Rolling Stone
None of the 60 sites closest to Rolling Stone 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 Rolling Stone 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 · 21 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Hotjar page source: static.hotjar.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
- Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag( 'config', 'AW-
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX rollingstone-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-718.awsdns-25.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5f299ac5ccddedab8418f37aad62a1ff499e5979c…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=nprFKP7f9bTtDxCbcLk3c0Ag6DYYRzhq/pIp/XJ…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=O81xyb7YxpdGeHWkniit_VBT4vTXz9__NFrNM…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=vn4y0orqW_cUPEvrE0yaSdIGOIMJ4L-VxYkCkEF5shk
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=un0pzjeye9ylufaptfim3y66d9h9lw
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Meta Business Suite 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on rollingstone.com 14/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 14/20
- OneTrust 10/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Google Ad Manager 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- GlobalSign 8/20
- Next.js · not on rollingstone.com 7/20
- PHP 7/20
- React · not on rollingstone.com 7/20
- WordPress 7/20
- Adobe 6/20
- Amazon SES 6/20