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Scientific American
Who runs Scientific American, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest popular science magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- discovermagazine.com
Measured from Scientific American’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Scientific American01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Scientific American
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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.
Wikidata: American popular science magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Scientific American 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.
tracker that follows visitors
2 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Scientific American
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Scientific American, thumbs down if it isn’t.
15 of the 60 sites closest to Scientific American match.
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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 - 02
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 - 03
National Geographic
Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.
Very close - 04
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 - 05
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Very close - 06
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 - 07
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 - 08
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Very close - 09
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 - 10
designboom magazine | your first source for architecture, design & art news
est. 1999 designboom is the first and most popular digital magazine for architecture & design culture. daily news for a professional and creative audience.
Very close - 11
Fashion Magazine - Beauty Tips, Fashion Trends, & Celebrity News - ELLE
Watch runway shows from the hottest fashion designers, scope out the best-dressed celebrities on the red carpet, discover the latest and greatest beauty products to maintain a healthy glow, and get a sneak peek at our celebrity cover shoots.
Very close - 12
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 - 13
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 - 14
Nachrichten, Hintergründe & Reportagen | STERN.de
Auf STERN.DE finden Sie News, spannende Hintergründe sowie bildstarke Reportagen aus allen Bereichen: Von Politik und Wirtschaft bis Kultur und Wissenschaft.
Very close - 15
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Scientific American’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Scientific American 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 Scientific American 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 · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 147 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Scientific American’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
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: h5-Owx3wSJJMJDniOBcTXTOD1IPjXEmFAgYdevUBvPshJuhU_33x6Q==
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-918.awsdns-50.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=l_BNpBAnk-rKZRyXJ9UkBfv9o6EEuuenkBrGp…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=LnqMHfT4GQvaYq57jqUePbMh3PABoiEL_dQHZi4wksQ
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=jdhhbhjmhg280yczsbslj24j4ixwty
Sitemaps
, 335,232 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on scientificamerican.com 14/20
- Google Workspace · not on scientificamerican.com 11/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- GlobalSign 9/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on scientificamerican.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on scientificamerican.com 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on scientificamerican.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on scientificamerican.com 6/20
- PHP · not on scientificamerican.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on scientificamerican.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Atlassian · not on scientificamerican.com 5/20
- WordPress · not on scientificamerican.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on scientificamerican.com 5/20