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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.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs xkcd

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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

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan

None of the 60 sites closest to xkcd 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 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 and search numbers · 5 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 119 ms

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.