theoatmeal.com
The Oatmeal
Who runs The Oatmeal, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest webcomics alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- xkcd
Measured from The Oatmeal’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Oatmeal01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Oatmeal
The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com
Wikidata: humor website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Oatmeal 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 19 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 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.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Oatmeal
None of the 60 sites closest to The Oatmeal 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 Oatmeal 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 ms
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/nhb4wwe.css
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/ga.js
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp page source: list-manage.com
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-429.awsdns-53.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Workspace 18/20
- Google Search Console · not on theoatmeal.com 16/20
- PHP · not on theoatmeal.com 11/20
- Google Analytics 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on theoatmeal.com 9/20
- WordPress · not on theoatmeal.com 8/20
- nginx · not on theoatmeal.com 7/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on theoatmeal.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on theoatmeal.com 7/20
- Mailchimp 6/20
- Apple Business · not on theoatmeal.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on theoatmeal.com 5/20
- Next.js · not on theoatmeal.com 5/20
- React · not on theoatmeal.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20