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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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to WordPress.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
1 of the 60 sites closest to WordPress.com matches.
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles WordPress.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones WordPress.com 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 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
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 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
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