wp.com
wp.com
Who runs wp.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 wp.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit wp.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs wp.com
wp.com
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- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What wp.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
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to wp.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to wp.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
2 of the 60 sites closest to wp.com match.
- 01
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Very close - 02
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Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles wp.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones wp.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 wp.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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 140 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
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress.com)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Q9OTgmFGvbuu-bnRYsyoA-MXgythlBvu6gZJry9XxMA
Sitemaps
, 12 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on wp.com 13/20
- Atlassian · not on wp.com 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on wp.com 11/20
- OpenAI · not on wp.com 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on wp.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wp.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wp.com 8/20
- DocuSign · not on wp.com 6/20
- Apple Business · not on wp.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on wp.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on wp.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on wp.com 4/20
- Miro · not on wp.com 4/20
- Stripe · not on wp.com 4/20
- reCAPTCHA · not on wp.com 4/20