w3.org
w3.org
Who runs w3.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web standards organization alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
Measured from w3.org’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit w3.org01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs w3.org
w3.org
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.
Wikidata: main international standards organization for the World Wide Web
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What w3.org 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
None of the 16 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on w3.org’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to w3.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to w3.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
Web standards organization overseeing alternate HTML5 specification
Very close - 02
Home - Ecma International
general-purpose programming language on which JavaScript and other languages are based
Very close - 03
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.
Very close - 04
international standards development organization
Very close - 05
Welcome - ETSI
ETSI provides an open, collaborative environment to develop globally applicable standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications, and services.
Very close - 06
International Web Association (IWA)
Founded in 1996, IWA is the industry’s recognized leader in providing educational and certification standards for Web professionals.
Very close - 07
Microformats – building blocks for data-rich web pages
project to standardise HTML class-name based formats
Very close - 08
American standards development organization
Very close - 09
Index
computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems
Close - 10
RFC Editor
The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.
Close - 11
ITU: Connecting the world and beyond
The United Nations agency for digital technologies
Close - 12
international standards development organization
Close - 13
ILO Homepage | International Labour Organization
The official website of the International Labour Organization (ILO), dedicated to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights.
Very close - 14
The HTML Writers Guild
The Guild is the world's largest international organization of Web designers. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in web authoring and a desire to improve his or her skills.
Close - 15
World Trade Organization - Home page - Global trade
Global trade - The World Trade Organization (WTO) deals with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that global trade flows smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.
Close - 16
CEN-CENELEC - CEN-CENELEC
Close - 17
Web Professionals
Web Professional association for web designers, web developers, web marketers, analysts and other web professionals.
Close - 18
3GPP – The Mobile Broadband Standard
The 3GPP unites seven telecommunications standard development organizations to help them produce reports and specifications for that define 3GPP technologies.
Close - 19 International Trade Centre intracen.org
multilateral agency
Close - 20
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles w3.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones w3.org 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 w3.org 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 · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to w3.org’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
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f8056f4b0c0f-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:34.238.48.92 ip4:34.199.101.240 ip6:2600:1f18:7d7a:2700…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS pranab.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=CZkSL9bXgKDxRmeDnAQorwhaQy3Ji1vTn36bBn5rL-E
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Google Search Console 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on w3.org 9/20
- jQuery · not on w3.org 8/20
- PHP · not on w3.org 7/20
- Atlassian · not on w3.org 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on w3.org 5/20
- WordPress · not on w3.org 5/20
- Google Workspace 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on w3.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on w3.org 4/20
- Apple Business · not on w3.org 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on w3.org 4/20
- nginx · not on w3.org 3/20
- reCAPTCHA · not on w3.org 2/20