thestandard.com.hk
The Standard
Who runs The Standard, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest daily newspaper alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- South China Morning Post
Measured from The Standard’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Standard01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Standard
The Standard thestandard.com.hk
The Standard, Hong Kong's premier free English news outlet, covers a lively mix of local and international news, all at no cost.
Wikidata: English free newspaper in Hong Kong
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Standard 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 17 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 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.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Standard
None of the 60 sites closest to The Standard 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 Standard 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
- 64 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap
- Analytics
- Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577c0e3ffd720da-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS yahir.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=R670PvTSawc-zoZTBgUtTFUoqi4veOXeVbHthZ-WrIs
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thestandard.com.hk 9/20
- Google Ad Manager 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thestandard.com.hk 8/20
- Google Fonts 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on thestandard.com.hk 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on thestandard.com.hk 6/20
- jQuery · not on thestandard.com.hk 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thestandard.com.hk 5/20
- Adobe · not on thestandard.com.hk 5/20
- Apple Business · not on thestandard.com.hk 5/20
- Cloudflare 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- React 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on thestandard.com.hk 4/20