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The Hill

Who runs The Hill, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest political news alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Punchbowl News

Measured from The Hill’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs The Hill

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The Hill is a top US political website, read by the White House and more lawmakers than any other site -- vital for policy, politics and election campaigns.

Wikidata: newspaper in Washington, D.C.

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What The Hill 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

More than all 13 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: OneTrust
US company: 7 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
- Amazon Publisher ServicesUS
- Taboola
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- ChartbeatUS
- ComscoreUS
Marketing and email tracking

Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
- OneSignalUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Adobe Experience Platform TagsUS
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Google FontsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to The Hill

Fewer trackers than The Hill No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to The Hill 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 Hill 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 · 18 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 172 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://thehill.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Fonts: Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto+Condensed:400,700&display=swap
Analytics: Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
Tag managers: Adobe Experience Platform Tags asset https://assets.adobedtm.com/3f27c430a962/d33d8acd711c/launch-25e943fdd407.min.js?ver=1.0.0
Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
Marketing automation: OneSignal page source: cdn.onesignal.com/sdks/
Cookie consent: OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
CDN: Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080027-BER
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
Email hosting: Microsoft 365 MX thehill-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=eRi2ZQZJ99fAou8jrSC06eUJpasrvj8YgWl21…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=DVSq_CaFAq0tMIKoVMV5dFunOR2SckFSpXDkY2nV3NA
Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=9pknfotxh5zh6q2jjejpwxh772qvx0

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.