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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.

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01 · 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.
- Google Ad ManagerUS
- Google Ads conversion trackingUS
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Google FontsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to SFist

Fewer trackers than SFist No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

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: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 96 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.