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WordPress.com

Who runs WordPress.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest website builder and hosting alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Wix.com

Measured from WordPress.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs WordPress.com

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Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.

Wikidata: Website builder

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What WordPress.com 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

16 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
6 tools

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to WordPress.com

Fewer trackers than WordPress.comNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to WordPress.com match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what WordPress.com 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 · 14 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,208
Vector
384-d
Query
44 ms

Built with

CMS
Fonts
Advertising
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_…
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_…
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_…
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress.com)
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_…
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.automattic.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:_…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Q9OTgmFGvbuu-bnRYsyoA-MXgythlBvu6gZJry9XxMA
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-AKnzAsfVXHG2wucO1Bcx2JC7

Sitemaps

, 12 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.