theconversation.com
The Conversation
Who runs The Conversation, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online news and commentary alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Vox
Measured from The Conversation’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Conversation01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Conversation
The Conversation theconversation.com
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Wikidata: news organization that publishes news articles written by academics
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What The Conversation 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
Fewer than all 19 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on The Conversation’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Conversation
None of the 60 sites closest to The Conversation 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 The Conversation 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 · 16 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=B50ABDD36E5F58827640B20817D99EE3262800925AFF6EE19…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-kigq8000166-CHI, cache-ber1080032-BER
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms37265398
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ip4:23.21.…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=WkMT4MJWjWcC3csbzo4R7AbUZrneLNY8q0f-CEvQVx0
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=gyeGKvuGtcVsT6g58QJ89G7Bhzguj7jCXWBIpmx…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=Nj-Dsc0AEOP995BTs5wNDw
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=I4BlH49DCiuGk2QNXZ4-nOEyAf2wEjw0h1ac82P_L-M
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=l382f2v2i1nfui3f9jbe5qld3rw0sn
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ip4:23.21.…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=xUFyQGptIuaQbvz9gupfRkniC06SlIx4cJR12oHf
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- PHP · not on theconversation.com 11/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on theconversation.com 11/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on theconversation.com 9/20
- WordPress · not on theconversation.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on theconversation.com 9/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on theconversation.com 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on theconversation.com 8/20
- jQuery · not on theconversation.com 7/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on theconversation.com 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on theconversation.com 5/20
- SendGrid 5/20