thesun.co.uk
The Sun
Who runs The Sun, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest tabloid newspaper alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Daily Star
Measured from The Sun’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Sun01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Sun
The Sun thesun.co.uk
Get the latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle from The Sun
Wikidata: British tabloid newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Sun 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
7 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Sun
None of the 60 sites closest to The Sun match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what The Sun 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 and search numbers · 17 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.8.12
- Tag managers
- Tealium page source: tags.tiqcdn.com
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: oLbV5da2W1zJ_4fhdO17DoaaVYV1fRlBGxxoFdpSfoORQaemaocJdg==
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.8.12)
- Video
- Brightcove page source: players.brightcove.net
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms48418918
- Proofpoint MX mxa-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-640.awsdns-16.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=627d3f0b-a0d9-4a42-93c9-52d7e9b35602
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=uNoIhBXurxzVlQa0FvK2t9Yld5byfvXbFRQaMTo…
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: E4359034FA254151A3AB2EFAC6D20D80
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ktbIDvT70_hbFNTapMeOkJ5BkjqY5hO7HRFtkB0yzHc
- Miro TXT miro-verification=876fd2e87e812aadd96eca532bf071be63109b0e
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_02A0JDVORdqHbeawnzucYg
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thesun.co.uk 14/20
- Google Workspace · not on thesun.co.uk 12/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Google Ad Manager 9/20
- Adobe 9/20
- Amazon SES · not on thesun.co.uk 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Apple Business · not on thesun.co.uk 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on thesun.co.uk 7/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on thesun.co.uk 6/20
- OpenAI · not on thesun.co.uk 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 5/20
- Taboola · not on thesun.co.uk 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on thesun.co.uk 5/20