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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to SpareRoom match.
- 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
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 - 03
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 - 04
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 - 05
Are you not a robot?
Finds everything
Very close - 06
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 - 07
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 - 08
Not available in your region – realtor.com®
Our home search experience isn’t currently available to visitors located in Europe.
Close - 09
Imovirtual - real estate portal for buying and renting properties in Portugal
Imovirtual - buy and rent properties in Portugal: thousands of houses, villas, apartments, land, commercial spaces and more – all at the click of a button
Close - 10
Airbnb: Vacation Rentals, Cabins, Beach Houses, Unique Homes & Experiences
Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide
Close - 11
Real Estate, Homes for Sale & Apartments for Rent | Compass
Buy, sell, and rent smarter with Compass. Partner with a local real estate agent to find the home or apartment that’s right for you.
Close - 12
Best Car Rental Deals with Free Cancellation, Compare & Save! | Discover Cars
Save up to 70% by comparing the best car rental deals from 1000+ suppliers in 10000+ locations worldwide and FREE Cancellation. Our 24/7 customer support speaks your language!
Close - 13
ShareThis | Share Buttons | Website Tools | Behavioral Intelligence
Discover how social sharing tools can drive traffic and help you understand consumer intent for better targeting and personalization.
Close - 14
Zillow: Real Estate, Apartments, Mortgages & Home Values
The leading real estate marketplace. Search millions of for-sale and rental listings, compare Zestimate® home values and connect with local professionals.
Close - 15
AddToAny: Share Buttons by the Universal Sharing Platform
Get share buttons for your website visitors to share content on any social sharing service. AddToAny is the universal sharing platform for websites and apps.
Close - 16
Purplebricks Estate Agents | Made for Modern Home Movers
Make a move and sell with Purplebricks, your estate agent near you. Book a free house valuation, secure mortgage deals and search houses for sale.
Close - 17
Hostels Worldwide - Online Bookings, Ratings and Reviews
Online confirmed bookings for backpacker hostels around the world. City guides, sightseeing, entertainment and backpacking information for hostels and backpacker tours around the world.
Close - 18
Search for Monthly Furnished Rentals | Furnished Finder
Looking for monthly furnished rentals? Discover the top housing options for traveling professionals, including travel nurses, on Furnished Finder.
Close - 19
Real Estate and Homes for Sale - Coldwell Banker
coldwellbanker.com can help you find homes for sale, realtors, and information about your local real estate market.
Close - 20
Trulia: Real Estate Listings, Homes For Sale, Housing Data
Your destination for all real estate listings and rental properties. Trulia.com provides comprehensive school and neighborhood information on homes for sale in your market.
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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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 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