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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
None of the 60 sites closest to The Guardian 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 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 and search numbers · 17 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 46 ms
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