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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.
- 01
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close - 02
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 - 03
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 - 04
CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Very close - 05
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Very close - 06
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
Very close - 07
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
see all latest
Very close - 08
Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Very close - 09
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Very close - 10
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 - 11
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 - 12
Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
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....
Very close - 13
PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
Very close - 14
Checking your browser
Very close - 15
Allure — Beauty Tips, Trends & Product Reviews | Allure
Discover new beauty product reviews, hair ideas, makeup looks, and skin-care advice, plus tips, trends, and more from Allure, the first and only dedicated beauty magazine.
Very close - 16
English-language computer magazine
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close - 18
Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.
Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!
Very close - 19
New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News
Extraordinary ideas and innovations moving the world forward.
Very close - 20
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
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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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 24 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
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