web.dev
web.dev
Who runs web.dev, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web development education alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- CSS-Tricks
Measured from web.dev’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit web.dev01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs web.dev
web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What web.dev 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 18 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to web.dev
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to web.dev, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to web.dev match.
- 01
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
Very close - 02
Learn to Code for Free
Very close - 03
Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.
Very close - 04
AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences - amp.dev
Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.
Very close - 05
Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Very close - 06
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 07
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Very close - 08
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 09
Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
Very close - 10
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 11
React
React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.
Very close - 12
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close - 13
Mozilla - Internet for people, not profit (US)
We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.
Very close - 14
How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why
Instructions on how to enable (activate) JavaScript in web browser and why.
Very close - 15
egghead.io - Learn Web Development from Expert Developers
Learn modern web development with expert-led courses, tutorials, and workshops. Master React, TypeScript, Next.js, AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and more with hands-on video lessons.
Very close - 16
A declarative, efficient and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Very close - 17
jQuery
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Very close - 18
Lit
Simple. Fast. Web Components.
Very close - 19
The Top Coding and Computer Science Platform for K-12 Schools | CodeHS
CodeHS is the comprehensive K-12 platform for computer science, AI, and digital literacy — free curriculum, IDE, grading tools, and professional development for schools and districts nationwide.
Very close - 20
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles web.dev’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones web.dev 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 web.dev 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 51 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to web.dev’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
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header server: Google Frontend
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=1KUpoM0U9uMGLkzIL1CaCnZDapQByrD74Wr92wrYZdA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on web.dev 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on web.dev 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on web.dev 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on web.dev 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on web.dev 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on web.dev 5/20
- nginx · not on web.dev 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on web.dev 4/20
- React · not on web.dev 4/20
- Apple Business · not on web.dev 3/20
- Zendesk · not on web.dev 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on web.dev 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on web.dev 3/20
- SendGrid · not on web.dev 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on web.dev 3/20