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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.
Visit WordPress.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs WordPress.com
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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
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to WordPress.com
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
What changed
Price and policy 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
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress.com
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Advertising
- Meta Pixel page source: fbq( 'init'
- Microsoft Advertising UET page source: bat.bing.com/bat.js
- Reddit Pixel page source: redditstatic.com/ads/pixel
- Marketing automation
- 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.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on wordpress.com 13/20
- Atlassian · not on wordpress.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on wordpress.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wordpress.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wordpress.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on wordpress.com 8/20
- OpenAI 7/20
- Apple Business · not on wordpress.com 6/20
- Google Fonts 6/20
- HubSpot 5/20
- Stripe · not on wordpress.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on wordpress.com 5/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wordpress.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on wordpress.com 4/20