Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Home
The 20 closest Particle physics research alternatives to Home, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Home? The closest matches are Zenodo, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and CNRS. 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
- 16 ms
01 · Entity
About Home
Summary by Claude
Official website of CERN, the European intergovernmental particle physics laboratory near Geneva that operates the Large Hadron Collider; it publishes research news, explains its experiments and technologies, and provides visitor information.
- Who it’s for
- Scientists, students, public, media
- Business model
- Member state funding
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Home’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 Home
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Home, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.900 - 02
Home | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Italian national research funding organization
Close cos 0.888 - 03
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique est le plus grand organisme public français de recherche scientifique. Il exerce son activité dans
Close cos 0.883 - 04
United States national laboratory located near Berkeley, California
Close cos 0.878 - 05
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Close cos 0.874 - 06
Worldometer - real time world statistics
Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. Interesting statistics with world population clock, forest loss this year, carbon dioxide co2 emission, world hunger data, energy consumed, and a lot more
Close cos 0.874 - 07
DDoS-Guard
central bank of the Russian Federation established on July 13, 1990
Close cos 0.874 - 08
Home - www.caltech.edu
The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.
Close cos 0.872 - 09 Close cos 0.870
- 10 Close cos 0.872
- 11
Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and Technology
Daily science news on research developments, technological breakthroughs and the latest scientific innovations
- Google Search Console
- Apache HTTP Server
- Google Ad Manager
- Google AdSense
- Google Analytics
- Meta Business Suite
Close cos 0.872 - 12
Home - DFN
German association for academic research
Close cos 0.868 - 13
Home
Welcome to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Close cos 0.868 - 14
NASA
NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
Close cos 0.871 - 15
Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
Close cos 0.868 - 16
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Close cos 0.871 - 17
Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Energy - Home
Close cos 0.870 - 18
Language selection | European Union
Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.
Close cos 0.870 - 19
Making sure you're not a bot!
Wir forschen, lehren und arbeiten für die und mit der Gesellschaft. Frei. Unabhängig. Verantwortungsvoll. Mutig und engagiert. Vielfältig und offen. Geschichtsbewusst und zukunftsorientiert. Exzellent. Wir sind die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU).
Close cos 0.868 - 20
EPFL
Based in Lausanne (Switzerland), EPFL is a university whose three missions are education, research and innovation.
Close cos 0.866
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to cern.ch’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Home uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Home is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.9.10
- JavaScript frameworks
- React asset https://home.cern/wp-includes/js/dist/vendor/react.min.js?ver=18.3.1.1
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://home.cern/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: _paq.push(
- Web servers
- OpenResty header server: openresty/1.27.1.2
- Languages & backends
- PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/8.4.27
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX cern-ch.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=aoFc91q4kA9Xp_-Z_AFY1gI0AmXpTXIMcGseZfvH0J8
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-R5PuLWpZKT8QhVzrlbLDHvBz
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Home adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Apple Business · not on cern.ch 9/20
- jQuery 8/20
- PHP 7/20
- nginx · not on cern.ch 5/20
- cdnjs · not on cern.ch 4/20
- Matomo 4/20
- Drupal · not on cern.ch 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on cern.ch 4/20
- OpenAI 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on cern.ch 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on cern.ch 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on cern.ch 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on cern.ch 3/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on cern.ch 3/20