straitstimes.com
The Straits Times
Who runs The Straits Times, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest daily newspaper alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Mothership
Measured from The Straits Times’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Straits Times01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Straits Times
The Straits Times straitstimes.com
The Straits Times - Get latest breaking news, business, sports, lifestyle, tech & multimedia and more news in Singapore, Asia & rest of the world at straitstimes.com.
Wikidata: Singapore newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Straits Times 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
12 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
A/B testing
Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Straits Times
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Straits Times, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Mothership.SG - News from Singapore, Asia and around the world.
Singaporean media company
Very close - 02
Breaking China, Asia, HK News, Opinions and Insights | South China Morning Post
News, opinions, infographics and videos on China issues: geopolitics, diplomacy, economy, technology and lifestyle.
Very close - 03
The Business Times - Singapore Business News
The Business Times - Singapore's leading business and financial news source. Find latest business news, market analysis, and economic insights from Singapore and Asia-Pacific.
Very close - 04
Breaking News and Analysis on Asia and the World | Real-Time Coverage out of Asia and Singapore - CNA
Get 24/7 real-time updates on breaking news from Asia, Singapore and around the world. CNA delivers accurate, timely coverage of events as they unfold. Stay informed.
Very close - 05
The Japan Times - News On Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment And More
Latest news on Japan: business, politics, commentary, sports, culture, life and more
Very close - 06
The Star | Malaysia News: National, Regional and World News
Get the latest Malaysia news stories and opinions with focus on National, Regional, Sarawak and World News, as well as reports from Parliament and Court.
Very close - 07
New Straits Times (NST Online) | Malaysia News & World Updates
Visit New Straits Times for the latest, breaking Malaysia news on politics, business, sports & entertainment, along with global updates. Join us today!
Very close - 08
The Korea Times
Get the latest on what's happening in Korea from the nation's top English-language media outlet.
Very close - 09
British daily national newspaper based in London
Very close - 10
The Korea Herald
The Korea Herald is South Korea’s largest English-language daily and the country’s sole member of the Asia News Network (ANN).
Very close - 11
Hindustan Times: Breaking News, Latest News, India News, World News & Cricket Today's Headlines | Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times: Stay updated with Hindustan Times for the top India news, world events, and breaking stories. Get real-time updates on politics, wars, live cricket scores, entertainment news, and lifestyle updates.
Very close - 12
British daily broadsheet newspaper
Very close - 13
The Standard
The Standard, Hong Kong's premier free English news outlet, covers a lively mix of local and international news, all at no cost.
Very close - 14
Global Times
Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under the People's Daily
Very close - 15
朝日新聞：朝日新聞社のニュースサイト
朝日新聞社のニュースサイトです。政治、経済、社会、国際、スポーツ、文化、科学などの速報ニュースに加え、教育、医療、環境などの話題や写真も。
Very close - 16
Νέα και Ειδήσεις από την Ελλάδα και τον Κόσμο | Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ
Τα Νέα Σήμερα στην Ελλάδα και τον Κόσμο | Ειδήσεις Online και Έκτακτη Επικαιρότητα τώρα από τη Νο1 Ημερήσια Πολιτική και Οικονομική Εφημερίδα
Very close - 17
China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World
Chinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. The Website has channels as China, BizChina, World, Opinion, Sports/Olympics, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Culture, Citylife, Photo, Forum and Weather.
Very close - 18
UK Home | Daily Mail Online
Daily Mail Online - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Very close - 19
The Sun Malaysia | Latest Trending News: National, World and Viral
Latest Malaysia news, breaking headlines, business, lifestyle, sports and world news from The Sun Malaysia.
Very close - 20
Politiken | Nyheder, debat, kultur og podcast. Læs eller lyt
DET SOCIALE MEDIE SIDEN 1884 | Få overblik over dagens nyheder på politiken.dk eller lyt til nyheder, oplæste artikler og podcasts via vores apps.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Straits Times’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Straits Times 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 The Straits Times 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 47 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Straits Times’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
- Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
- A/B testing
- VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: WBnA0z-4SUx7i_JwPwsCwQVTOYr2ipe6jh-la-veA4H5KoZdIueGSg==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-2022.awsdns-60.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=GwQiPCZYUfSzNdgHyEYu8h5A4H_yDdWt6RBZkAqUBeg
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on straitstimes.com 11/20
- Google Ad Manager 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on straitstimes.com 10/20
- Google Fonts · not on straitstimes.com 9/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on straitstimes.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on straitstimes.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on straitstimes.com 6/20
- Chartbeat 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- nginx · not on straitstimes.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on straitstimes.com 5/20
- React · not on straitstimes.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on straitstimes.com 5/20
- Adobe · not on straitstimes.com 5/20