thepointsguy.com
The Points Guy
Who runs The Points Guy, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest travel rewards media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- NerdWallet
Measured from The Points Guy’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Points Guy01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Points Guy
The Points Guy thepointsguy.com
Maximize your travel with hands-on travel advice, guides, reviews, deal alerts, and more from The Points Guy. Check out our recommendations so you can travel more often and more comfortably.
Wikidata: website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Points Guy 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
4 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- 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 Points Guy
None of the 60 sites closest to The Points Guy 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 Points Guy 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 · 18 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 46 ms
Built with
- CMS
- Sanity page source: cdn.sanity.io/
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=B3204365BF7305E6C588C2DCF5D860D08250316341C301FB7…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080056-BER, cache-ber1080056-BER
- Hosting
- Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::iad1::xvtrm-1794172735037-de562ede585b
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX thepointsguy-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-78.awsdns-09.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=b6e27597198dfc9921fbe2ad78e9a76012bb17d0d…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=dXpMb6IBZlmK7X42/O28YWyiXYn0+90NDFEfrPs…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=ACGXICbdz_WofXR0vqLQHw
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ZtTW5kSNfzJPdMyYtha0OkDyhxcWT-4xPLEDHMtNtkE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=oldu9us8l3xagrf8ajr0ifg5dpawhf
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-9baY35JXYA30dhzsrqNeubCh
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_gg8rf5L2S5a4EiDZYf5MtA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on thepointsguy.com 14/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- OneTrust 13/20
- PHP · not on thepointsguy.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- WordPress · not on thepointsguy.com 10/20
- Google Ad Manager 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Apple Business · not on thepointsguy.com 9/20
- GlobalSign · not on thepointsguy.com 8/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on thepointsguy.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on thepointsguy.com 7/20
- Adobe 7/20
- DocuSign · not on thepointsguy.com 7/20