sciencealert.com
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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to ScienceAlert match.
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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.
Very close - 02
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 - 03
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.
Very close - 04
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.
Very close - 05
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 - 06
National Geographic
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
Very close - 07
Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
Very close - 08
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close - 09
Android Police: Android news, reviews, guides, editorials, and more
All the latest mobile tech news, deals, reviews, guides, editorials, and more. Embracing the green bubble since 2009.
Very close - 10
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 - 11
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Very close - 12
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close - 13
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Very close - 14
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Very close - 15
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Very close - 16
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
Very close - 17
SpaceNews: The space industry's source
News and analysis of the companies, agencies, technologies and trends shaping the global space industry. Subscribe today.
Very close - 18
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close - 19
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Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
Very close
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 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