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The Guardian
Who runs The Guardian, 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
- The Independent
Measured from The Guardian’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Guardian01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Guardian
The Guardian theguardian.com
Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
Wikidata: British national daily newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Guardian 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
5 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Guardian
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Guardian, thumbs down if it isn’t.
15 of the 60 sites closest to The Guardian match.
- 01
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 02
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Very close - 03
The National - Latest world news, sport & opinion
The latest international news, headlines and events from around the world
Very close - 04
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Close - 05
Diari ARA | News from the leading Catalan newspaper
Leading Catalan newspaper: read the latest news reports and articles to find out what is happening in Catalonia, Spain and the world
Very close - 06
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 07
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.
Very close - 08
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.
Very close - 09
Global Times
Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under the People's Daily
Very close - 10
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 11
The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe
News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine
Very close - 12
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 - 13
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 14
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 - 15
Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com
UPI delivers the latest headlines from around the world: Top News, Entertainment, Health, Business, Science and Sports News - United Press International
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Guardian’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Guardian 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 Guardian 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 · 17 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Guardian’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
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=ce4031d6f7b94fdb9ed409ab9cf643d3
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=85178DB4E6F4EC41721B7F20BD9F04B21E2B630ADA8156BDF…
- Monitoring
- Sentry page source: .ingest.us.sentry.io
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms94953828
- DNS hosting
- NS1 NS dns1.p04.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=af3ef20fdc1d370aee02414a73ce0db9f1b465c21…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=4qbvNZKyKKZyBtdU
- DocuSign TXT docusign=1f00efb3-0975-459c-b221-e46452a0f92a
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ujq5XlF5Ty7dwXv7S3AV99WRr8IwetZIjNqqloPpKmA
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=9qqmd2kl745hph02i64iyoxvdphmi9
- Miro TXT miro-verification=9bbe1ce0f13ab2efbbda64d44bd0db3c1f17fd60
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-m8f1SR7Sj1HI4BIM0XsZAOxx
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf_c.oraclecloud.com include:…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=K3gfZj51sHXR6hxk5BVVfunkmGnHxc4NvwNtqo77
Sitemaps
, 22 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Adobe 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on theguardian.com 10/20
- Amazon SES · not on theguardian.com 9/20
- Google Ad Manager 9/20
- Atlassian · not on theguardian.com 9/20
- GlobalSign · not on theguardian.com 7/20
- Zoom · not on theguardian.com 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on theguardian.com 6/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Fastly · not on theguardian.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on theguardian.com 5/20
- Taboola · not on theguardian.com 5/20