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The Local
Who runs The Local, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest expat news publication alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- swissinfo.ch
Measured from The Local’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Local01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Local
The Local thelocal.ch
Latest news, travel, politics, money, jobs and more. Get guides on property, second homes, visas, language, taxes from The Local's journalists in Switzerland.
Wikidata: multi-regional English-language digital news publisher
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Local 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
9 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Local
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Local, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Switzerland - News and perspectives - SWI swissinfo.ch
SWI swissinfo.ch, your link to Switzerland. Providing independent reporting in 10 languages, focusing on democracy, foreign policy, and more.
Very close - 02
News für die Schweiz - Nau.ch
News für die Schweiz. Das neue Nachrichtenportal der Schweiz mit News aus Sport, Politik und People.
Very close - 03
Blick: Nachrichten und Schlagzeilen aus der Schweiz und aller Welt
Aktuelle Nachrichten, News und Kommentare aus Wirtschaft, Politik, Sport, Kultur, Gesellschaft, Wissen & Lifestyle auf Blick.ch. Jetzt App downloaden.
Very close - 04
watson - News, aber deep
watson – deine News-Plattform für die Schweiz. Aktuelle Nachrichten, spannende Hintergründe und unterhaltsame Storys. Bleib informiert mit den neuesten News und Trends.
Very close - 05
20 Minuten: Aktuelle Nachrichten, Schlagzeilen - News von Jetzt
Alle News auf einen Blick: Beim grössten Schweizer Nachrichtenportal findest du 24/7 Aktuelles, Bilder, Hintergründe und Videos aus der Schweiz und Welt.
Very close - 06
NZZ Deutschland | Aktuelle News, Hintergründe & mehr
Nachrichten, Hintergründe & Meinungen der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung. Fundierte Berichterstattung rund um die Uhr
Very close - 07
RSI - RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera
Il sito della Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana RSI LA1, LA2, Rete Uno, Rete Due, Rete Tre. Un sito web per tutte le trasmissioni radiofoniche e televisive, i programmi TV e radio, i concorsi, gli eventi, gli Archivi, le news, gli approfondimenti, gli audio, i podcast e video sui temi: informazione, cultura, sport, edu, kids, food, meteo.
Very close - 08
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
Steigen Sie ein in das Angebot aus Audios, Videos, Nachrichten und allen Sendungen von Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen.
Very close - 09
News & Email at blue News | Switzerland, Sports, People, International
News from Switzerland and around the world covering sports, politics, entertainment, business & digital — Live streams – Webmail login Bluewin email
Very close - 10
Caixin Global - Latest Business and Financial News on China, U.S. Trade War and Negotiations, Breaking News, Headlines and Developments
Caixin Global provides the latest China news headlines on politics, economy, business and finance with insight and in-depth analysis.
Very close - 11
The Japan Times - News On Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment And More
Latest news on Japan: business, politics, commentary, sports, culture, life and more
Very close - 12
Il Post
Gli articoli, le rassegne, i blog, le foto, tutto quello che arriva dal mondo e dalla rete.
Very close - 13
News & E-Mail bei t-online | Politik, Sport, Unterhaltung & Ratgeber
Aktuelle News aus Politik, Sport, Unterhaltung, Wirtschaft & Finanzen | Ratgeber Leben, Gesundheit und Heim & Garten | E-Mail und Shopping bei t-online.
Very close - 14 Japan Today japantoday.com
Online newspaper based in Tokyo, Japan
Very close - 15
China News Service Website - Headlines, stories, photos and videos | Ecns.cn
Ecns.cn is the official English-language website of China News Service (CNS), providing latest news, comments, analysis, photos and videos on China society, business, culture, sci-tech, sports, entertainment and travel.
Very close - 16 Tages-Anzeiger tagesanzeiger.ch
Swiss newspaper
Very close - 17
Cronista US - El Cronista US
El Cronista es uno de los Diarios Económicos de Argentina más valoraEs la fuente más confiable de información sobre Economía, Finanzas y Negocios.
Very close - 18
Nachrichten, aktuelle Schlagzeilen und Videos - n-tv.de
Nachrichten seriös, schnell und kompetent. Artikel und Videos aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Börse, Sport und aller Welt.
Very close - 19
The Journal
Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News
Very close - 20
Handelsblatt - Nachrichten aus Finanzen, Wirtschaft und Politik
Auf Handelsblatt lesen Sie News über Unternehmen, Finanzen, Politik und Technik. ➤ Die Nr. 1 der Finanz- & Wirtschaftszeitungen. ➤ Substanz entscheidet.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Local’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Local 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 Local 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 · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Local’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
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript frameworks
- Vue.js asset https://www.thelocal.ch/js/vue.js?id=31a3093f90e1a46ac1171699c4e46f8b
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.7.2/css/all.min.css
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google, 1.1 google
- Languages & backends
- PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/8.4.27
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-b4.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=LUab1LI9XJar5UOe7seAKhlRJTNNECdo_1om05BVS4A
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thelocal.ch 10/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thelocal.ch 9/20
- React · not on thelocal.ch 7/20
- Atlassian · not on thelocal.ch 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thelocal.ch 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on thelocal.ch 6/20
- Google Ad Manager 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Next.js · not on thelocal.ch 6/20
- Miro · not on thelocal.ch 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on thelocal.ch 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on thelocal.ch 5/20
- PHP 4/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on thelocal.ch 4/20