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.
10 of the 60 sites closest to The Star match.
- 01
Новости России и мира сегодня — последние новости на Коммерсантъ
Актуальные новости, объективный анализ и эксклюзивные комментарии о важнейших событиях и трендах
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
Delo.si
Najbolj verodostojne zgodbe s področja notranje in zunanje politike, gospodarstva, športa, kulture in zabave. Naše delo je, da vi veste več.
Very close - 04
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 - 05
Global Times
Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under the People's Daily
Very close - 06
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 - 07
NRC - Nieuws, achtergronden en onderzoeksjournalistiek
Nieuws, duiding, analyse en onderzoeksjournalistiek over onderwerpen die er echt toe doen. Feitelijk, betrouwbaar, diepgravend en genuanceerd.
Very close - 08
Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet står för seriös och faktabaserad kvalitetsjournalistik som utmanar, ifrågasätter och inspirerar.
Close - 09
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.
Close - 10
derStandard.at | Nachrichten, Kommentare & Community
DER STANDARD – Nachrichten in Echtzeit: Lesen Sie jetzt Nachrichten aktuell aus dem online News-Room der führenden Qualitätszeitung in Österreich.
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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
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 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