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Wired
Who runs Wired, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- The Verge
Measured from Wired’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Wired01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Wired
Wired wired.com
We bring you the future as it happens. From the latest in science and technology to the big stories in business and culture, we've got you covered.
Wikidata: American technology magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Wired 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 17 alternatives below have fewer, 7 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 Wired
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wired, thumbs down if it isn’t.
17 of the 60 sites closest to Wired match.
- 01
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close - 02
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close - 03
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Very close - 04
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 - 05
heise online – IT news, guides and background information | heise online
News and forums on computers, IT, science, media and politics. Price comparison of hardware and software as well as downloads at Heise Medien.
Very close - 06
Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
Very close - 07
Checking your browser
Very close - 08
TNW | The heart of tech™
tech and media company
Very close - 09
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 10
TechPowerUp
Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
Very close - 11
Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
Very close - 12
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 13
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 14
International Business, World News & Global Stock Market Analysis
CNBC International is the world leader for news on business, technology, China, trade, oil prices, the Middle East and markets.
Very close - 15
NETZWELT | Tests, Downloads, Anleitungen, Kaufberatungen & Videos
Netzwelt.de bietet Testberichte, Downloads, Anleitungen und ausführliche Informationen wie Kaufberatungen & Videos zu Smartphones, Tablet-PCs, Notebooks, Software, Fernseher und Smart Home.
Very close - 16
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Very close - 17
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Wired’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Wired 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 Wired 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 · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wired’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
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: jLSW9CvGAVSIoSHIfCyb1_IBLhfoFvDowmIfIKK99Ua6pIAXrOi-rg==
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562faaf79f8e96b-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms32964175
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1116.awsdns-11.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=c2108b9dbc0fc05ff0794006df1c41b6c945bd2c8…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=mYtQWl3namqmk5ikMKT48XVnS+XdjdbkLlkWMcN…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=093f2a18-6882-43f7-a9ae-b2594de9d47f
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=5gwbTrtjX4CPebqVSR8L6SpOvnf_3_6K7X0z_…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=tA0Sx_MrXe58GUfjaTg-EgrfF7wv1WdDVKKq7dyNuwc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=75aqj8blnqc3dj5cy9b5d9mialys78
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-LCvTXCMns2J5grLiXF1uTD2T
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_PeuZagN7TzybBaD-uxsGAw
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Google Tag Manager 13/20
- Google Ad Manager 9/20
- PHP · not on wired.com 9/20
- WordPress · not on wired.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wired.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- OneTrust · not on wired.com 6/20
- nginx · not on wired.com 6/20
- Adobe 6/20