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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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Sun, thumbs down if it isn’t.
14 of the 60 sites closest to The Sun match.
- 01
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 - 02
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Very close - 03
The National - Latest world news, sport & opinion
The latest international news, headlines and events from around the world
Very close - 04
BBC - Home
The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
Very close - 05
Gulf News: Latest UAE news, Dubai news, Business, travel news, Dubai Gold rate, prayer time, cinema
Get the latest update on UAE, business, life style, UAE jobs, gold rate, Exchange rate, UAE holidays, Dubai police, RTA and prayer times from UAE’s largest news portal.
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
Global Times
Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under the People's Daily
Very close - 08
Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com
UPI delivers the latest headlines from around the world: Top News, Entertainment, Health, Business, Science and Sports News - United Press International
Very close - 09
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 - 10
The Leading Source for Entertainment and Celebrity News | Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight (ET) is the authoritative source on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming movies, and TV shows.
Very close - 11
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 - 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).
Close - 13
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.
Close - 14
Refinery29 UK
Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Sun’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Sun 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 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 17 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 56 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Sun’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 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