Alternatives and competitors
Sites like GAO
The 20 closest government audit agency alternatives to GAO, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to GAO? The closest matches are GovInfo, usa.gov and Federal Register. 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
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01 · Entity
About GAO
GAO gao.gov
U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.
Wikidata: US federal government agency
Summary by Claude
Website of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a legislative branch agency that audits and investigates federal spending and program performance for Congress, publishing reports, testimony, legal decisions and bid protest rulings.
- Who it’s for
- Congress, policymakers, journalists, public
- Business model
- Government funded
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to GAO’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 GAO
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GAO, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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GovInfo | U.S. Government Publishing Office
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Very close cos 0.912 - 02
Making government services easier to find | USAGov
Find government benefits, services, agencies, and information at USA.gov. Contact elected officials. Learn about passports, Social Security, taxes, and more.
Very close cos 0.907 - 03 Very close cos 0.904
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Home | GSA
Our mission is to deliver the best customer experience and value in real estate, acquisition, and technology services to government and the American people.
Very close cos 0.899 - 05
bicameral legislature of the United States
Very close cos 0.900 - 06
U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright Office Homepage
Very close cos 0.898 - 07
department of the US government
Very close cos 0.899 - 08
Internal Revenue Service | An official website of the United States government
Pay your taxes. Get your refund status. Find IRS forms and answers to tax questions. We help you understand and meet your federal tax responsibilities.
Very close cos 0.898 - 09
National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
Very close cos 0.897 - 10
Azure WAF
Azure WAF
Very close cos 0.897 - 11
Homepage | house.gov
lower house of the United States Congress
Very close cos 0.894 - 12
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Close cos 0.892 - 13
CIA
national foreign intelligence agency of the United States
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Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Energy - Home
Close cos 0.892 - 15
United States Courts
third constitutional branch of government
Close cos 0.893 - 16
executive department of the United States federal government
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United States federal government agency
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Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
Official website of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
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Home | U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. federal department that regulates workers' rights and labor markets
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | US EPA
Website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment.
Close cos 0.890
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to gao.gov’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones GAO uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What GAO is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org)
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.gao.gov/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=4.0.0
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms93491652
- Proofpoint MX mxa-0030d401.gslb.pphosted.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=9ec7c19bd24109a66645b3c15149071982b6300b6…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: wob6eovMWacm3mswEjWyXs0ItjBfACDZwVo7QhDSL9A
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what GAO adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Drupal 10/20
- PHP 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- jQuery 8/20
- Apple Business · not on gao.gov 8/20
- Akamai · not on gao.gov 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on gao.gov 7/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on gao.gov 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on gao.gov 5/20
- Adobe 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on gao.gov 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on gao.gov 4/20
- Webex · not on gao.gov 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on gao.gov 3/20