spareroom.co.uk
SpareRoom
Who runs SpareRoom, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest flatshare listings alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- wg-gesucht.de
Measured from SpareRoom’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit SpareRoom01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs SpareRoom
SpareRoom spareroom.co.uk
Find a flatshare or flatmate fast! 1000s of rooms for rent in flatshares across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow and the rest of the UK. Advertise for free! As seen on TV.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What SpareRoom 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
4 of the 13 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to SpareRoom
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SpareRoom, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
The No.1 for shared flats - The marketplace for flats and rooms. WG-Gesucht.de
Find your shared flat or apartment for rent on WG-Gesucht, one of the largest platforms in Europe. Multiple award winner ✓ 16.98 million users, 200,000 listings per month.
Very close - 02
Houses and flats for sale, rent out or sell your flat - pisos.com
¿Buscas un hogar? en pisos.com te ayudamos a encontrar tu casa, piso o vivienda, contamos con más de 491.678 inmuebles disponibles de profesionales y particulares. ¡Un piso increíble está esperándote!
Very close - 03 Gumtree gumtree.com
British online classified advertisement and community website
Very close - 04
British real estate company
Very close - 05
Rightmove - UK's number one property website for properties for sale and to rent
UK's number one property website for properties for sale and to rent
Very close - 06 HotPads.com hotpads.com
real estate website owned by real estate company Zillow
Very close - 07
OnTheMarket | Property, Houses & Flats for Sale & to Rent
The most uncluttered, user-friendly property portal. Find hundreds of 1000s of properties for sale & to rent from leading UK estate agents | OnTheMarket
Very close - 08
Najnowsze ogłoszenia i porady nieruchomości online | Gratka
Znajdź swój nowy dom na najbardziej zaufanym portalu w Polsce. ✓ Ponad 1 milion transakcji sprzedaży i wynajmu ✓ Raporty rynkowe ✓ Opinie o agencjach
Very close - 09
Fotocasa.es: Real estate in Spain. Houses for sale and rent
Over 1,500,000 flats for sale and rent, new and previously occupied houses and apartments. Sell or rent your flat with Fotocasa for FREE!
Very close - 10 Apartment List apartmentlist.com
American online marketplace for apartment listings
Very close - 11
Are you not a robot?
Finds everything
Very close - 12
With over 1 million rental listings, Apartments.com is the place to find a place.
Very close - 13
Otodom: Nieruchomości, Mieszkania, Domy, Działki
Najpopularniejszy serwis nieruchomościowy. Sprzedaż i wynajem w kategoriach mieszkania, domy, działki, lokale użytkowe. Oferty od deweloperów, biur nieruchomości oraz bezpośrednie. Znajdź wymarzoną nieruchomość razem z nami.
Close - 14
Property for Sale: Houses for sale: Property24
The first place to start your property search with over 200 000 houses, private property, flats, farms, repossessed property for sale & to rent by estate agents. Property24.com
Close - 15
FINN.no – mulighetenes marked
Skal du kjøpe eller selge, stort eller smått, så er FINN.no stedet. Vi er der for deg når du skal selge hytta di, finne en pent brukt sofa, fly billigst mulig til Praha eller finne drømmebilen.
Very close - 16
PistonHeads UK - Stop Dreaming Start Driving
Trusted by millions as the number one place to buy, sell and love premium, performance and collectible cars. PistonHeads: Stop dreaming, start driving.
Very close - 17
apartment search engine and online marketplace
Close - 18
Not available in your region – realtor.com®
Our home search experience isn’t currently available to visitors located in Europe.
Close - 19
Shpock | Buying and Selling Near Me
Shiny stuff for them. Shiny money for you. Sell your stuff nationwide.
Close - 20
Spanish company with real estate portal services
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles SpareRoom’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones SpareRoom 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 SpareRoom 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to SpareRoom’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
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://www.spareroom.co.uk/v2/build/vite/spareroom/js/global/fontawesome-CN_eSJ_V.js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080022-BER
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms37272384
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=vLIjl7AACgNCA89t
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=_SC67NwT47JlVTPkWK6-xVnmwy2kri_VX0J33…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=iASN6kTwaEK9jhZWjdO1e16nQeyc9DB5Zds3StB_Eg0
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=6432nyodtfho755bnurok0emyppd9s
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Atlassian · not on spareroom.co.uk 13/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on spareroom.co.uk 8/20
- Apple Business 8/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Zoom · not on spareroom.co.uk 7/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on spareroom.co.uk 7/20
- Miro · not on spareroom.co.uk 6/20
- OpenAI · not on spareroom.co.uk 6/20
- React · not on spareroom.co.uk 6/20
- Google Cloud DNS 5/20
- Adobe · not on spareroom.co.uk 5/20
- DocuSign · not on spareroom.co.uk 5/20