Alternatives and competitors
Sites like boutell.com
The 20 closest developer personal site alternatives to boutell.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to boutell.com? The closest matches are web.dev, PHP and Drupal. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 18 ms
01 · Entity
About boutell.com
boutell.com
Welcome to Boutell.Com, Inc.!
Summary by Claude
Personal site of developer Tom Boutell publishing articles about how the web works, the WWW FAQ, and his open source and shareware projects such as Apostrophe CMS and an SEO viewer tool.
- Who it’s for
- Web developers and technically curious users
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to boutell.com’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to boutell.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to boutell.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
Very close cos 0.897 - 02
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.894 - 03
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close cos 0.894 - 04
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.894 - 05
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
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Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Close cos 0.889 - 07
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...
Close cos 0.888 - 08
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Close cos 0.887 - 09
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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jQuery
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Close cos 0.886 - 11
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Close cos 0.884 - 14
OpenWeb - The Community Engine of the Open Internet
OpenWeb powers communities across the Open Internet, turning real participation into direct audience relationships, actionable insights, and revenue.
Close cos 0.881 - 15
Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
Close cos 0.882 - 16
Moodle challenge
e-learning platform
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Bootstrap · The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world.
Powerful, extensible, and feature-packed frontend toolkit. Build and customize with Sass, utilize prebuilt grid system and components, and bring projects to life with powerful JavaScript plugins.
Close cos 0.880 - 18
ShareThis | Share Buttons | Website Tools | Behavioral Intelligence
Discover how social sharing tools can drive traffic and help you understand consumer intent for better targeting and personalization.
- Google Analytics
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Fonts
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Close cos 0.882 - 19
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
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open-source Internet forum package written in PHP
Close cos 0.880
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to boutell.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones boutell.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What boutell.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/ga.js
- Advertising
- Google AdSense page source: pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what boutell.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on boutell.com 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on boutell.com 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on boutell.com 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on boutell.com 10/20
- Google Fonts · not on boutell.com 7/20
- PHP · not on boutell.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on boutell.com 6/20
- Google Analytics 6/20
- WordPress · not on boutell.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on boutell.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on boutell.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on boutell.com 4/20
- Mailchimp · not on boutell.com 4/20
- SendGrid · not on boutell.com 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on boutell.com 3/20
- Fastly · not on boutell.com 3/20