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The Journal
Who runs The Journal, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online news alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- BreakingNews.ie
Measured from The Journal’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Journal01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Journal
The Journal thejournal.ie
Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News
Wikidata: Irish Online News Publication
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Journal 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
14 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 tools
- EU company
- 1 tool
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
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 Journal
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Journal, thumbs down if it isn’t.
18 of the 60 sites closest to The Journal match.
- 01
BreakingNews.ie | Irish News | Breaking News from Ireland
Ireland's premier breaking news website providing up to the minute news and sports reports. With e-mail news releases following breaking stories throughout the day
Very close - 02
RTÉ Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster
RTÉ news brings you the latest Irish news, world news, international news and up to the minute reports on breaking Irish news stories and news from around the world. Watch and listen to Irish news stories on our video and audio streams.
Very close - 03
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 - 04
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 - 05
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
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
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Ghanaian news and opinion site
Very close - 08
MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.
The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.
Very close - 09
The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe
News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine
Very close - 10
TG4 | Teilifís Gaeilge
Irish-language television network
Very close - 11
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 - 12
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 13
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 - 14
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Very close - 15
RFI - All the news from France, Europe, Africa and the rest of the world.
Follow any political information, cultural, sporting and live streaming on RFI. The latest information, news and events around the world.
Very close - 16
Cointelegraph Bitcoin & Ethereum Blockchain News
The most recent news about crypto industry at Cointelegraph. Latest news about bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain, mining, cryptocurrency prices and more
Very close - 17
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 - 18
The Spinoff
New Zealand's home for independent journalism, illuminating perspectives and good times.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Journal’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Journal 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 Journal 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 · 21 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Journal’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
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- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:200,200i,300,300i,400,400i,600,60…
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Hotjar page source: static.hotjar.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.m…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=8e35711422c1b17f589fcf8140d7b4602bedcac730dccd855…
- Monitoring
- Bugsnag page source: d2wy8f7a9ursnm.cloudfront.net
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/7.1.33-81+0~20261022.128+ubuntu22.04~1.gbpa88ccf
- Authentication
- Firebase page source: gstatic.com/firebasejs/
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms19201325
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.google.com include:spf.m…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS anna.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=uuIfYKYZzrGaVoiIblvEhBU8avxx7QhP0XZSk_s9UEQ
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=3havxusc6awoy8gonjiil3tl8s59xi
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Cloudflare · not on thejournal.ie 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 12/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Google Ad Manager 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Atlassian · not on thejournal.ie 7/20
- Google Fonts 7/20
- Mailgun · not on thejournal.ie 6/20
- jQuery 6/20
- PHP 6/20
- WordPress · not on thejournal.ie 6/20
- OneTrust · not on thejournal.ie 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thejournal.ie 5/20