thestar.com
The Star
Who runs The Star, 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
- Toronto Sun
Measured from The Star’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Star01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Star
The Star thestar.com
thestar.com is one of Canada's largest online news sites and 100% Canadian-owned. Live news, investigations, politics, sports and the heartbeat of Toronto, Canada's largest city.
Wikidata: daily newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Star 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
3 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 14 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 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.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Star
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Star, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Home | Toronto Sun Home Page | Toronto Sun
Read latest breaking news, updates, and headlines. Toronto Sun offers information on latest national and international events & more.
Very close - 02
National Post: Canadian and World News, Stories & Headlines
The National Post keeps you up-to-date on what's happening in Canada and the rest of the world with the latest breaking news and stories that matter to you.
Very close - 03
The Globe and Mail: Canadian, World, Politics and Business News & Analysis
The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news
Very close - 04
CTV News – Breaking News and Video, Canada News Today
Get live updates on the latest local, national, and international news, including trusted reporting on politics, health, business, sports and more.
Very close - 05
News website
Very close - 06
Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada
Globalnews.ca – Watch and read Canada’s Breaking news plus Business, Health, Politics and World News
Very close - 07
CP24 – Toronto Breaking News, Live Updates, Weather and Traffic Today
Get the latest breaking news headlines, weather reports, and traffic updates on Greater Toronto and the Hamilton Area.
Very close - 08
The Daily Star: News with a Wink
All the best news stories, sport & showbiz from the Daily Star, the top destination for big laughs.
Very close - 09
Actualités, nouvelles et chroniques | Le Journal de Montréal
Des nouvelles accessibles et complètes : sports, politique, spectacles, argent et judiciaire. Soyez toujours bien informé avec le Journal de Montréal.
Very close - 10
Le Devoir | Nouvelles, politique, économie, culture et chroniques
Consultez le journal Le Devoir en ligne pour obtenir les toutes dernières actualités. Le Devoir, le quotidien indépendant par excellence au Québec depuis 1910.
Very close - 11
LaPresse.ca | Actualités et Infos au Québec et dans le monde
Le site d'information francophone le plus complet en Amérique du Nord: Actualités régionales, provinciales, nationales et internationales.
Very close - 12
Financial Post: Finance and Economy News and Headlines
Get the latest Canadian news on business, finance, markets, investing, economy, real estate, energy and personal finance on Financial Post.
Very close - 13
British daily broadsheet newspaper
Very close - 14
The Japan Times - News On Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment And More
Latest news on Japan: business, politics, commentary, sports, culture, life and more
Very close - 15
The Korea Times
Get the latest on what's happening in Korea from the nation's top English-language media outlet.
Very close - 16
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
Very close - 17
Breaking China, Asia, HK News, Opinions and Insights | South China Morning Post
News, opinions, infographics and videos on China issues: geopolitics, diplomacy, economy, technology and lifestyle.
Very close - 18
News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.
Very close - 19
Новости России и мира сегодня — последние новости на Коммерсантъ
Актуальные новости, объективный анализ и эксклюзивные комментарии о важнейших событиях и трендах
Very close - 20
The Seattle Times | Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Star’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Star 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 Star 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Star’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
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thestar.com/shared-content/art/tncms/templat…
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Prebid.js page source: pbjs.que
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js
- CDN
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jwt-decode/build/jwt-decode.min.js
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms40059873
- Mimecast MX ca-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1321.awsdns-37.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=XByLFO_zPYLFQOaAPaS18yEXypvpN0AtWdS3R…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=EViSAYLPTq2C1KinCWAJzcrU7dc65tEjuCCcoxrRHFM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=3bbgrghtkgk347kvf183escofgjv94
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Ad Manager 15/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Meta Business Suite 13/20
- Google Tag Manager 11/20
- Amazon Publisher Services · not on thestar.com 9/20
- Comscore · not on thestar.com 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on thestar.com 8/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- React · not on thestar.com 7/20
- Apple Business · not on thestar.com 7/20
- PHP · not on thestar.com 6/20
- WordPress · not on thestar.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Prebid.js 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on thestar.com 5/20