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.
11 of the 60 sites closest to The Star match.
- 01
Diari ARA | News from the leading Catalan newspaper
Leading Catalan newspaper: read the latest news reports and articles to find out what is happening in Catalonia, Spain and the world
Very close - 02
Vietnam News | Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports - VietNam News
Việt Nam News provides fast, accurate and unique stories and analyses on Vietnam in all areas including politics, economy, culture, travel and sports
Very close - 03
Los Angeles Daily News
The Los Angeles Daily News is the local news source for Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley region, providing breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, things to do, opinion, photos, videos and more from L.A.
Close - 04
Global Times
Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under the People's Daily
Very close - 05
China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World
Chinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. The Website has channels as China, BizChina, World, Opinion, Sports/Olympics, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Culture, Citylife, Photo, Forum and Weather.
Very close - 06
The National - Latest world news, sport & opinion
The latest international news, headlines and events from around the world
Close - 07
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).
Close - 08
Newsday | Long Island's & NYC's News Source - Newsday
Breaking News, data & opinions in business, sports, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, plus much more. Newsday.com is the leading news source for Long Island & NYC.
Close - 09
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Close - 10
VietNamNet News - Latest Vietnam news, business, sports, entertaiment, politics
VietNamNet News provides latest Vietnam news, photos, videos about Vietnam. Breaking news from Vietnam and the world today.
Close - 11
The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe
News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 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