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Tom's Guide
Who runs Tom's Guide, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news and reviews alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- CNET
Measured from Tom's Guide’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Tom's Guide01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Tom's Guide
Tom's Guide tomsguide.com
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
Wikidata: website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Tom's Guide 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
8 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Sourcepoint
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Tom's Guide
None of the 60 sites closest to Tom's Guide 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 Tom's Guide 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 · 13 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,200
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 50 ms
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-scroll-snap-strictness:
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lon4243-LON, cache-ber1080035-BER
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms39640003
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-50.awsdns-06.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: AXmk3QRU_rEstMST70XJGrMWcFZaH8xG9J-C3FskFEs
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=zhslinw1jtp7z2cnbbnqel0g5user8
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 18/20
- Meta Business Suite 13/20
- Google Ad Manager 11/20
- Google Tag Manager 11/20
- PHP · not on tomsguide.com 11/20
- WordPress · not on tomsguide.com 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on tomsguide.com 8/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Atlassian · not on tomsguide.com 7/20
- nginx · not on tomsguide.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on tomsguide.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on tomsguide.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- OneTrust · not on tomsguide.com 6/20