salon.com
Salon.com
Who runs Salon.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online news and opinion alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- HuffPost
Measured from Salon.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Salon.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Salon.com
Salon.com salon.com
Wikidata: American progressive news and opinion website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Salon.com 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
5 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
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 Salon.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Salon.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 02
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
Very close - 03
American news publication
Very close - 04
Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism
American progressive magazine
Very close - 05
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close - 06
The Nation
The Nation Magazine
Very close - 07 Raw Story rawstory.com
left-leaning American online news organization
Very close - 08
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 09 Newsmax newsmax.com
American news website
Very close - 10
Breitbart News Network
Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
Very close - 11
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 12
Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.
Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!
Very close - 13
American journalism company and news website
Very close - 14
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close - 15
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 16
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 17
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business | WIRED
We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered.
Very close - 18
American news website
Very close - 19
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Very close - 20
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Salon.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Salon.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Salon.com 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Salon.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-includes/
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Analytics
- Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: NnFd2EiWZfqnm5lCbyL0jmsqB3V0TZMNTySUOGMwqmqTglWFb4b7lg==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services cookie AWSALB
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:sparkpos…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:sparkpos…
- SparkPost TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:sparkpos…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1607.awsdns-08.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ToZocoVH2HQ_ELmCBBfCEYwD3cn86qhMrWuiNPTfHfk
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=tgeiwtothsyny0dy06usfbpl583mto
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on salon.com 16/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Apple Business · not on salon.com 9/20
- Atlassian · not on salon.com 9/20
- GlobalSign · not on salon.com 9/20
- OpenAI · not on salon.com 9/20
- Adobe · not on salon.com 8/20
- Fastly · not on salon.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on salon.com 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Amazon SES 6/20
- OneTrust · not on salon.com 6/20
- Zoom · not on salon.com 6/20