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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.
16 of the 60 sites closest to The Local match.
- 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
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 - 03
NZZ Deutschland | Aktuelle News, Hintergründe & mehr
Nachrichten, Hintergründe & Meinungen der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung. Fundierte Berichterstattung rund um die Uhr
Very close - 04
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 - 05
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 - 06
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 - 07
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 - 08
Aftonbladet
Aftonbladet är Sveriges primära och mest engagerande nyhetskälla. Genom journalistiken värnar vi sanningen och granskar makten.
Very close - 09
Aktuálně.cz - kompletní zpravodajství z domova i ze světa
Aktuálně.cz - kompletní zpravodajství, zprávy z domova i ze světa
Very close - 10
news.ORF.at
news.ORF.at: Die aktuellsten Nachrichten auf einen Blick - aus Österreich und der ganzen Welt. In Text, Bild und Video.
Very close - 11
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 - 12
Linternaute.com : Information, loisirs, culture et découvertes...
Actualité, voyages, photos, cinéma, restaurants, cartes de voeux, tv, musique, encyclopédie... Un magazine en ligne complet, pratique, ludique et gratuit pour tous !
Very close - 13
ORIGO
Friss hírek Magyarországról és a nagyvilágból, sport, technika, szórakozás, tudomány, kultúra. Az ORIGO a legfrissebb hazai és nemzetközi hírekkel szolgál olvasói számára.
Very close - 14
新浪网
新浪网为全球用户24小时提供全面及时的中文资讯,内容覆盖国内外突发新闻事件、体坛赛事、娱乐时尚、产业资讯、实用信息等,设有新闻、体育、娱乐、财经、科技、房产、汽车等30多个内容频道,同时开设博客、视频、论坛等自由互动交流空间。
Very close - 15
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 - 16
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
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 180 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