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The Sun
Who runs The Sun, 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
- The 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.my
Latest Malaysia news, breaking headlines, business, lifestyle, sports and world news from The Sun Malaysia.
- 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.
tracker that follows visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 13 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.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Sun
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Sun, thumbs down if it isn’t.
5 of the 60 sites closest to The Sun match.
- 01
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 - 02
Global Times
Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under the People's Daily
Close - 03
Document
Russian state-controlled website
Close - 04
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 - 05
China News Service Website - Headlines, stories, photos and videos | Ecns.cn
Ecns.cn is the official English-language website of China News Service (CNS), providing latest news, comments, analysis, photos and videos on China society, business, culture, sci-tech, sports, entertainment and travel.
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 · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 45 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 page source: /wp-content/
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Advertising
- Google AdSense page source: pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a2859f29b1e5-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS houston.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=532D9596F8B646A1800A3CB97A35772D
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=auzN-bHvS9RrD8e1K-cqUDLThp5dFB_R2oAV_cTtk
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: e984c82766aeec24
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on thesun.my 14/20
- Google Workspace · not on thesun.my 14/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thesun.my 10/20
- Google Fonts 8/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on thesun.my 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on thesun.my 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thesun.my 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thesun.my 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Atlassian · not on thesun.my 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- jQuery · not on thesun.my 5/20
- Prebid.js · not on thesun.my 5/20
- React · not on thesun.my 5/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on thesun.my 5/20