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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Oatmeal, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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The Perry Bible Fellowship - Offbeat comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch. Includes archives, information about the author, and purchases.
Offbeat comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch. Includes archives, information about the author, and purchases.
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Questionable Content - Home
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Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger
You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.
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Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
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Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
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A List Apart – For people who make websites
For people who make websites
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CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news
Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!
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Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
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kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
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Lezhin Comics - Your Fantasy, Our Content
Lezhin Comics - Premium webtoons for mature audiences. A new online webcomic reading experience.
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BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
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Home | Spotlight
Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!
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Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...
Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...
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The Best In Us - Upworthy
At Upworthy, we make the best in humanity more visible so it becomes more possible. ✨ Together with our community, creators, and partners, we create stories, ideas, and experiences that change how people see themselves and the world, and inspire them to add more good to it.
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Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
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Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.
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Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
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Rock Paper Shotgun
PC gaming news, previews, reviews, opinion.
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Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Oatmeal’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Oatmeal 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 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Oatmeal’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
- 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