thestranger.com
The Stranger
Who runs The Stranger, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest alternative weekly newspaper alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Part of wordpress.com
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- The Seattle Times
Measured from The Stranger’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Stranger01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Stranger
The Stranger thestranger.com
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Wikidata: alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Part of
- wordpress.com Runs this domain’s DNS
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Stranger 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 19 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 8 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.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
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 Stranger
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Stranger, thumbs down if it isn’t.
19 of the 60 sites closest to The Stranger match.
- 01
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 02
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 03
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close - 04
Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food
American progressive news and opinion website
Very close - 05
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
Very close - 06
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.
Very close - 07
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Close - 08
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Close - 09
Discover and Shop What's Next | Highsnobiety
Highsnobiety is a global fashion and media brand passionate about product and the stories that shape them. Discover and shop what's next.
Close - 10
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
Close - 11
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news
Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.
Close - 12
The Mercury News - Bay Area news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary
The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond
Close - 13
Universe Today - Space and Astronomy News
Your daily source for space and astronomy news. Expert coverage of NASA missions, rocket launches, space exploration, exoplanets, and the latest discoveries in astrophysics.
Close - 14
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Close - 15
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 - 16
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 - 17
The Spinoff
New Zealand's home for independent journalism, illuminating perspectives and good times.
Close - 18
Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Close - 19
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Stranger’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Stranger 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 Stranger 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 · 20 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Stranger’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
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Ecommerce
- WooCommerce page source: /plugins/woocommerce/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://c0.wp.com/c/7.1.4/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://kit.fontawesome.com/1a5dd3b0ab.js
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Microsoft Clarity page source: clarity.ms/tag/
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com includ…
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms38559699
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com includ…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:helpscoutemail.com includ…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=tM1wrHnP2TjbcH3k
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Yn7U5qsaj-oKD3y_qp7IbGawlVoNxW1Pzu87ZOHqabU
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thestranger.com 15/20
- Google Tag Manager 14/20
- Google Ad Manager 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thestranger.com 12/20
- GlobalSign · not on thestranger.com 10/20
- Apple Business 9/20
- PHP 9/20
- WordPress 9/20
- nginx 8/20
- Google Fonts · not on thestranger.com 7/20
- Fastly · not on thestranger.com 7/20
- Amazon Publisher Services · not on thestranger.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on thestranger.com 6/20