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SpyFu

Who runs SpyFu, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest SEO software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs SpyFu

SpyFu spyfu.com

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Wikidata: American search analytics company

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What SpyFu 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

18 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
6 tools

  • Advertising and retargeting

    Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.

  • Session recording

    Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.

  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • A/B testing

    Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.

  • 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 SpyFu

Fewer trackers than SpyFuNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to SpyFu 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 SpyFu 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 · 20 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
61 ms

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Vue.js page source: data-server-rendered="true"
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
Fonts
Analytics
Tag managers
Advertising
Live chat & support
  • Intercom page source: widget.intercom.io
A/B testing
  • VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/markdown-it/13.0.2/markdown-it.min.js
  • Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779722cd8821ff-HAM
Languages & backends
  • ASP.NET header x-powered-by: ASP.NET
Video
  • Wistia page source: fast.wistia.com
Email hosting
  • Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.atlassian.net …
  • Microsoft 365 MX spyfu-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.atlassian.net …
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=5O-kOpFFDTzioCQjSkYvSdYEnhPNOqVxoktWNYZrbRg
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-11rWcb0rqo9yzoFHkvYECFyI