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ScienceAlert
Who runs ScienceAlert, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest science news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- ScienceDaily
Measured from ScienceAlert’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ScienceAlert01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert sciencealert.com
The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.
Wikidata: Australian magazine and news source
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What ScienceAlert 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
- Sourcepoint
- US company
- 7 tools
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.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
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 ScienceAlert
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ScienceAlert, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news
Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.
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Live Science | Latest science news and articles for those with curious minds
Daily discoveries, groundbreaking research and fascinating science breakthroughs that impact you and the wider world, reported by our expert journalists.
Very close - 03
Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology
Daily science news on research developments, technological breakthroughs and the latest scientific innovations
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Space.com: NASA, Space Exploration and Astronomy News
Get the latest space exploration, innovation and astronomy news. Space.com celebrates humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier.
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Science News | The latest news from all areas of science
Science News features news articles, videos and more about the latest scientific advances. Independent, accurate nonprofit news since 1921.
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science magazine
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Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Very close - 08
Universe Today - Space and Astronomy News
Your daily source for space and astronomy news. Expert coverage of NASA missions, rocket launches, space exploration, exoplanets, and the latest discoveries in astrophysics.
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Popular Science | Science and Technology Stories Since 1872
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.
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EurekAlert! Science News Releases
EurekAlert! is an online science news service featuring health, medicine, science and technology news from leading research institutions and universities. Sponsored by AAAS, the science society.
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New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News
Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.
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Medical News | Medical Articles
Medical News and articles you can trust from around the world. All content is written and reviewed by qualified health, medical and scientific experts.
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Alpha Galileo | alphagalileo.org
research news service
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Medical Xpress: Health & Medical Research News
Medical Xpress delivers daily medical research news and health breakthroughs across neuroscience, cardiology, oncology, genetics, and more — trusted by millions of readers worldwide.
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Nature
First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives ground-breaking discovery, and is read by thought-leaders and decision-makers around the world.
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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.
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American magazine
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Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
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National Geographic
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
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Medical and health information | MedicalNewsToday
Medical news and health news headlines posted throughout the day, every day
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ScienceAlert’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ScienceAlert 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 ScienceAlert 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 · 18 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ScienceAlert’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-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.sciencealert.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-content:
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net ~all
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56322ed2c667d79-HAM
- Hosting
- Kinsta header x-kinsta-cache: HIT
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS isla.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FcSUVXEyRuX6bvvPPjgQ7EOct0dKhwDdByzUzkojfqk
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on sciencealert.com 12/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Google Ad Manager 10/20
- GlobalSign · not on sciencealert.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on sciencealert.com 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Google Analytics 6/20
- Fastly · not on sciencealert.com 5/20
- PHP 5/20
- Adobe · not on sciencealert.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on sciencealert.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on sciencealert.com 5/20
- Mailchimp 5/20