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Who runs xkcd, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest webcomic alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- smbc-comics.com
Measured from xkcd’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit xkcd01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs xkcd
xkcd xkcd.com
Wikidata: webcomic created by Randall Munroe
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What xkcd 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 19 alternatives below has fewer; 13 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on xkcd’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to xkcd
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to xkcd, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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webcomic
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The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman
humor website
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Questionable Content - Home
Questionable Content is an internet comic strip created by Jeph Jacques about friendship, romance, and robots. QC began on August 1, 2003.
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The Perry Bible Fellowship - Offbeat comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch. Includes archives, information about the author, and purchases.
Offbeat comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch. Includes archives, information about the author, and purchases.
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Dinosaur Comics - November 4th, 2026 - awesome fun times!
this comic... might be the best comic?
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Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger
You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.
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A List Apart – For people who make websites
For people who make websites
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Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
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Home | Spotlight
Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!
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Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
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Lezhin Comics - Your Fantasy, Our Content
Lezhin Comics - Premium webtoons for mature audiences. A new online webcomic reading experience.
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kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
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Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
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WEBTOON - Read Comics, Manga & Manhwa
WEBTOON is home to thousands of stories across 23 genres including romance, comedy, action, fantasy, and horror. Read comics, webcomics, manga, and manhwa online or download the WEBTOON app.
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Read free manga, comics and stories online - MangaToon
MangaToon is an online platform where you can read manga, comics, manhwa, manhua, and Anime for free. It offers a wide variety of genres, including romance, action, fantasy, horror, mystery, BL (Boys' Love), doomsday, and cultivation manga and stories. Users can access MangaToon through their website or mobile app.
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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Checking your browser
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ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs
The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.
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Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles xkcd’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones xkcd 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 xkcd 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 · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 112 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to xkcd’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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080021-BER
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org ~all
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-d4.googledomains.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Google Search Console · not on xkcd.com 15/20
- Google Analytics · not on xkcd.com 10/20
- PHP · not on xkcd.com 9/20
- jQuery · not on xkcd.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on xkcd.com 8/20
- Mailchimp · not on xkcd.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on xkcd.com 6/20
- WordPress · not on xkcd.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on xkcd.com 6/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on xkcd.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on xkcd.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on xkcd.com 4/20
- nginx 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on xkcd.com 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on xkcd.com 4/20