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Stack Overflow
Who runs Stack Overflow, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest developer technology blog alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- GitHub
Measured from Stack Overflow’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Stack Overflow01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow stackoverflow.blog
Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming, from Stack Overflow.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Stack Overflow 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
1 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 12 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Stack Overflow
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Stack Overflow, thumbs down if it isn’t.
7 of the 60 sites closest to Stack Overflow match.
- 01
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close - 02
Checking your browser
Very close - 03
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
Very close - 04
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 05
Schneier on Security -
Very close - 06
A List Apart – For people who make websites
For people who make websites
Very close - 07
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Stack Overflow’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Stack Overflow 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 Stack Overflow 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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,215
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 46 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Stack Overflow’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
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Hosting
- Netlify header x-nf-request-id: 01M6YHF7KETXYXM5H9V8GB09HC
- DNS hosting
- NS1 NS dns3.p07.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=25ba5203f3687c9cd6ee3223ee5de1528917828d1…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=eFjbwem4UZtpNHIVDxbbKJvcZB8X0SCQR3PQ9a06Mg0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on stackoverflow.blog 16/20
- PHP · not on stackoverflow.blog 12/20
- WordPress · not on stackoverflow.blog 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on stackoverflow.blog 10/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on stackoverflow.blog 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on stackoverflow.blog 9/20
- nginx · not on stackoverflow.blog 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on stackoverflow.blog 8/20
- Google Analytics 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on stackoverflow.blog 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on stackoverflow.blog 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on stackoverflow.blog 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on stackoverflow.blog 5/20
- YouTube embeds · not on stackoverflow.blog 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on stackoverflow.blog 4/20