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SFist
Who runs SFist, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest local news website alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- SFGATE
Measured from SFist’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit SFist01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs SFist
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SFist is San Francisco's source for fun, witty, & serious news. With updates about restaurants, events, sports, politics & more, SFist reaches millions of users in California.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What SFist 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
14 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
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 SFist
None of the 60 sites closest to SFist 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 SFist 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 · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 47 ms
Built with
- CMS
- Ghost meta generator: Ghost 6.57
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag('config', 'AW-
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a938e8d962bf-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/ghost/portal@~2.69/umd/portal.min.js
- Languages & backends
- Express header x-powered-by: Express
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS clark.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Z3Xf8AcYQHSsr4SGOREhjbKDE4dCS6K5N_gFTEsUJuA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on sfist.com 16/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on sfist.com 15/20
- Atlassian · not on sfist.com 12/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on sfist.com 12/20
- Adobe · not on sfist.com 11/20
- GlobalSign · not on sfist.com 11/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- OpenAI · not on sfist.com 11/20
- Fastly · not on sfist.com 9/20
- OneTrust · not on sfist.com 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- Amazon SES · not on sfist.com 8/20
- Apple Business · not on sfist.com 8/20
- React · not on sfist.com 7/20