theage.com.au
The Age
Who runs The Age, 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
- Herald Sun
Measured from The Age’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Age01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Age
The Age theage.com.au
The Age has the latest local news on Melbourne, Victoria. Read National News from Australia, World News, Business News and Breaking News stories.
Wikidata: Melbourne daily newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Age 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
9 of the 13 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
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 The Age
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Age, thumbs down if it isn’t.
13 of the 60 sites closest to The Age match.
- 01
ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.
Very close - 02
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
Very close - 03
7NEWS Australia: Latest news, sport, video, entertainment and lifestyle from Australia and the world
7NEWS brings you the latest local news from Australia and around the world. Stay up to date with all of the breaking sport, politics, entertainment, finance, weather and business headlines. Today's news, live updates & all the latest breaking stories from 7NEWS.
Very close - 04
Newsday | Long Island's & NYC's News Source - Newsday
Breaking News, data & opinions in business, sports, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, plus much more. Newsday.com is the leading news source for Long Island & NYC.
Very close - 05
The National - Latest world news, sport & opinion
The latest international news, headlines and events from around the world
Very close - 06
Vietnam News | Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports - VietNam News
Việt Nam News provides fast, accurate and unique stories and analyses on Vietnam in all areas including politics, economy, culture, travel and sports
Very close - 07
Los Angeles Daily News
The Los Angeles Daily News is the local news source for Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley region, providing breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, things to do, opinion, photos, videos and more from L.A.
Very close - 08
VietNamNet News - Latest Vietnam news, business, sports, entertaiment, politics
VietNamNet News provides latest Vietnam news, photos, videos about Vietnam. Breaking news from Vietnam and the world today.
Very close - 09
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).
Close - 10
Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment, weather and obituaries
The Boston Herald is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, politics, entertainment, opinion and weather in Boston, Massachusetts.
Close - 11
The Mercury News - Bay Area news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary
The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
Close - 12
Gulf News: Latest UAE news, Dubai news, Business, travel news, Dubai Gold rate, prayer time, cinema
Get the latest update on UAE, business, life style, UAE jobs, gold rate, Exchange rate, UAE holidays, Dubai police, RTA and prayer times from UAE’s largest news portal.
Close - 13
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Age’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Age 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 Age 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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 115 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Age’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
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Microsoft Advertising UET page source: bat.bing.com/bat.js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-syd10167-SYD, cache-syd10167-SYD, cache-ber1080025-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1391.awsdns-45.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=7JmN6dazOT7LXjyHvi_YmaRlN4ZcwfGCyQ7Cf…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=zlJrhEySjwCMM6RQ4VlfUx_viHIB1mo3H41LJqV6ZDA
- Miro TXT miro-verification=e2736fab20b8db58132d7cb294330e593e27d1b7
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on theage.com.au 13/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on theage.com.au 13/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Adobe · not on theage.com.au 9/20
- Proofpoint · not on theage.com.au 8/20
- Google Ad Manager 8/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on theage.com.au 6/20
- Apple Business · not on theage.com.au 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Atlassian · not on theage.com.au 6/20
- Zoom · not on theage.com.au 5/20
- Miro 5/20
- OpenAI · not on theage.com.au 5/20