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XDA Developers

Who runs XDA Developers, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest technology news media alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: How-To Geek

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs XDA Developers

XDA Developers xda-developers.com

The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.

Wikidata: Technology news publication

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What XDA Developers 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 18 alternatives below have fewer, 10 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 1 tool

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to XDA Developers

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Fewer trackers than XDA Developers No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

8 of the 60 sites closest to XDA Developers match.

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TechPowerUp techpowerup.com English No trackers

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Leading tech publication, with fast news, thorough reviews, and a strong community.
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Netzwelt netzwelt.de German No trackers

NETZWELT | Tests, Downloads, Anleitungen, Kaufberatungen & Videos

Netzwelt.de bietet Testberichte, Downloads, Anleitungen und ausführliche Informationen wie Kaufberatungen & Videos zu Smartphones, Tablet-PCs, Notebooks, Software, Fernseher und Smart Home.
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GIGA | News und Tipps zu Android, Apple, Games, Entertainment, Tech und Haushalt

Bei GIGA findet ihr aktuelle News, Tests, Tipps und Schnäppchen rund um Technik, Games und Entertainment.
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COMPUTER BILD - Tests, Tipps, News und Kaufberatung

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LWN.net lwn.net English No trackers

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computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
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GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

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Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
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04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what XDA Developers 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,214
Vector: 384-d
Query: 45 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to XDA Developers’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Email delivery: Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.ema…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=P-3_ccHueZb55W88C-1uICQaI044464qZthDIeohauw
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