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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
- The 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.my
Get the latest Malaysia news stories and opinions with focus on National, Regional, Sarawak and World News, as well as reports from Parliament and Court.
Wikidata: English-language daily newspaper in Malaysia and news website published by Star Media Group Berhad
- 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
More than all 18 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 6 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Star
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Star, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
The Sun Malaysia | Latest Trending News: National, World and Viral
Latest Malaysia news, breaking headlines, business, lifestyle, sports and world news from The Sun Malaysia.
Very close - 02
New Straits Times (NST Online) | Malaysia News & World Updates
Visit New Straits Times for the latest, breaking Malaysia news on politics, business, sports & entertainment, along with global updates. Join us today!
Very close - 03
Malaysiakini
News and views that matter
Very close - 04 The Malay Mail malaymail.com
newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Very close - 05
Free Malaysia Today | Current Affairs, Business, Economy, Lifestyle, News and Analysis
Breaking: Trump says resumption of war with Iran ‘highly unlikely’. Latest on electricity supply, child sexual assault, Attorney-General Dusuki Ahmad from FMT.
Very close - 06
The Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimedia
The Straits Times - Get latest breaking news, business, sports, lifestyle, tech & multimedia and more news in Singapore, Asia & rest of the world at straitstimes.com.
Very close - 07
The Korea Times
Get the latest on what's happening in Korea from the nation's top English-language media outlet.
Very close - 08
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 - 09
Latest & Breaking News Melbourne, Victoria | The Age
The Age has the latest local news on Melbourne, Victoria. Read National News from Australia, World News, Business News and Breaking News stories.
Very close - 10
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 - 11
British daily broadsheet newspaper
Very close - 12
The Korea Herald
The Korea Herald is South Korea’s largest English-language daily and the country’s sole member of the Asia News Network (ANN).
Very close - 13
The National - Latest world news, sport & opinion
The latest international news, headlines and events from around the world
Very close - 14
Berita Terkini Hari Ini, Kabar Akurat Terpercaya - Kompas.com
Kompas.com - Berita Indonesia dan Dunia Terkini Hari Ini, Kabar Harian Terbaru Terpercaya Terlengkap Seputar Politik, Ekonomi, Travel, Teknologi, Otomotif, Bola
Very close - 15
Okezone.com - Berita Terkini dan Informasi Terbaru Hari Ini
Berita terkini dan terbaru hari ini, terpercaya dan terlengkap. Okezone membahas Politik, Ekonomi, Travel, Lifestyle, Selebriti, Bola, Sports sampai berita Internasional
Very close - 16
Jyllands-Posten - Nyheder til dig, der vil vide mere
Artikler om Danmark, udlandet, politik, erhverv, finans, underholdning, kultur, sport, forskning, kriminalitet, vejr, trafik, kommuner, sygehuse, miljø - jp.dk
Very close - 17
EL PAÍS: el periódico global
Noticias de última hora sobre la actualidad en España y el mundo: política, economía, deportes, cultura, sociedad, tecnología, gente, opinión, viajes, moda, televisión, los blogs y las firmas de EL PAÍS. Además especiales, vídeos, fotos, audios, gráficos, entrevistas, promociones y todos los servicios de EL PAÍS.
Very close - 18
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 - 19
NRC - Nieuws, achtergronden en onderzoeksjournalistiek
Nieuws, duiding, analyse en onderzoeksjournalistiek over onderwerpen die er echt toe doen. Feitelijk, betrouwbaar, diepgravend en genuanceerd.
Very close - 20
The Jerusalem Post - All News from the Middle East, Israel, and the Jewish World
The Jerusalem Post is Israel's most-read English news website and best-selling English newspaper bringing breaking news, world news & middle east news.
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 · 19 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 51 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
- JavaScript frameworks
- Vue.js asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2.5.12/dist/vue.min.js
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/js/bootstrap.min.js
- Font Awesome asset https://cdn.thestar.com.my/Themes/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300,300i,400,400i,700,700i,900,900i&display=…
- Analytics
- Chartbeat page source: static.chartbeat.com
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: jwVxhC_oIY4xdNkrS6PebpD7BXn5itc1a1qLhes-uBeNWRbz3DQcWg==
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/URI.js/1.18.10/URI.min.js
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue@2.5.12/dist/vue.min.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:eh1kl06qgw.powerspf.com include:mailgun.org ip4:88.99.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1635.awsdns-12.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=K21L1_MQC5w-itAoK_iuvvIVoOfxT4YkdOhexgloBXY
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thestar.com.my 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on thestar.com.my 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on thestar.com.my 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thestar.com.my 8/20
- Google Fonts 7/20
- React · not on thestar.com.my 7/20
- Amazon CloudFront 7/20
- Next.js · not on thestar.com.my 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on thestar.com.my 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on thestar.com.my 4/20
- PHP · not on thestar.com.my 4/20