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ZDNET
Who runs ZDNET, 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
- CNET
Measured from ZDNET’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ZDNET01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ZDNET
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What ZDNET 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
9 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to ZDNET
None of the 60 sites closest to ZDNET 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 ZDNET 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 · 18 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11
- Analytics
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Prebid.js page source: prebid.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
- Authentication
- Firebase page source: .firebaseapp.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:64.30.227.218 ip4:64.30.226.54/31 ip4:74.125.148.0/22 i…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS owen.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=b6e27597198dfc9921fbe2ad78e9a76012bb17d0d…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=QUsZX4LdPWTYZgx09JhShFot27EJnUl/5CyxXFs…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=Dq2WPizCkBmFzG8pX1jdkQ
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=0MpBgJlty0QJTSbL0NsxKSMQao7AtbMttqQqLBpnuqo
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=qxzu4bw9l67g1b59xbja9fqgyetsfq
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-4I5bt1RLb1irQk2oZZb9k5PZ
Sitemaps
, 206,236 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Google Ad Manager 14/20
- Google Tag Manager 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- PHP 10/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on zdnet.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on zdnet.com 7/20
- Adobe 5/20
- Atlassian 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on zdnet.com 5/20
- nginx 5/20
- OneTrust 5/20