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Wowhead
Who runs Wowhead, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video game database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- raider.io
Measured from Wowhead’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Wowhead01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Wowhead
Wowhead wowhead.com
The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.
Wikidata: database for World of Warcraft
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Wowhead 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.
tracker that follows visitors
3 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 1 tool
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Wowhead
None of the 60 sites closest to Wowhead 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 Wowhead 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 · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,215
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://wow.zamimg.com/js/3rd-party/jquery.2.1.3.min.js?fa3be9bf
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://wow.zamimg.com/js/react/vendors-fontawesome.c2cf8f13.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Monitoring
- Datadog RUM page source: datadoghq-browser-agent.com
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: SZuEnu81J53KYag_Ib7Fh6Xa5yDg5yVHqV3dtL6WKKSSg65OzgtewA==
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com ~all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-742.awsdns-28.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: SScjPPnjqJ0lGTlZeVs9x0D3_jmctKZ-6nE4cvfGL00
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on wowhead.com 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wowhead.com 10/20
- Google Analytics · not on wowhead.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on wowhead.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on wowhead.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on wowhead.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- Zendesk · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on wowhead.com 3/20