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.
11 of the 60 sites closest to SpareRoom match.
- 01
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 - 02
Not available in your region – realtor.com®
Our home search experience isn’t currently available to visitors located in Europe.
Close - 03
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
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Airbnb: Vacation Rentals, Cabins, Beach Houses, Unique Homes & Experiences
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Close - 05
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 - 06
Challenge Validation
Irish clothing retailer
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US international real estate agent franchise company
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Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost
DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!
Close - 09
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Close - 10
Search Flights, Hotels & Rental Cars | KAYAK
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Close - 11
Domains, Websites, Email and Web Hosting Services | 123 Reg
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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
- 30 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