www.gov.uk
www.gov.uk
Who runs www.gov.uk, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest government services portal alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- usa.gov
Measured from www.gov.uk’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit www.gov.uk01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs www.gov.uk
www.gov.uk
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
Wikidata: island country in north-west Europe
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What www.gov.uk 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
None of the 16 alternatives below has fewer; 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on www.gov.uk’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to www.gov.uk
None of the 60 sites closest to www.gov.uk 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 www.gov.uk 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
Built with
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080050-BER
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
Sitemaps
, 119,707 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on www.gov.uk 16/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on www.gov.uk 12/20
- PHP · not on www.gov.uk 6/20
- Apple Business · not on www.gov.uk 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on www.gov.uk 5/20
- Drupal · not on www.gov.uk 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on www.gov.uk 5/20
- jQuery · not on www.gov.uk 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on www.gov.uk 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on www.gov.uk 5/20
- Adobe · not on www.gov.uk 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on www.gov.uk 4/20
- Proofpoint · not on www.gov.uk 3/20
- cdnjs · not on www.gov.uk 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on www.gov.uk 3/20
- HubSpot · not on www.gov.uk 2/20