Alternatives and competitors
Sites like GQ
The 20 closest men's lifestyle magazine alternatives to GQ, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to GQ? The closest matches are Men's Health, Men's Journal and ELLE. 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.
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01 · Entity
About GQ
GQ gq.com
GQ - Men's Fashion, Style, Grooming, Fitness, Entertainment, Lifestyle, News & Politics | GQ
The latest tips and advice for men on style, grooming, fitness, best products, travel destinations and more. Find politics, sports and entertainment news.
Wikidata: American monthly men's magazine
Summary by Claude
Online edition of GQ, a men's magazine publishing articles on fashion, grooming, fitness, product recommendations, celebrity interviews, entertainment, travel and politics.
- Who it’s for
- Men interested in style and culture
- Business model
- Advertising, affiliate commerce and subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to GQ’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 GQ
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GQ, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Men's Health - Fitness, Nutrition, Health, Sex, Style & Weight Loss Tips for Men
Men's Health is the brand men live by for fitness, nutrition, health, sex, style, grooming, tech, weight loss, and more.
Very close cos 0.935 - 02
mensjournal.com
American magazine
Very close cos 0.917 - 03
Fashion Magazine - Beauty Tips, Fashion Trends, & Celebrity News - ELLE
Watch runway shows from the hottest fashion designers, scope out the best-dressed celebrities on the red carpet, discover the latest and greatest beauty products to maintain a healthy glow, and get a sneak peek at our celebrity cover shoots.
Very close cos 0.913 - 04
Vogue: Fashion, Beauty, Celebrity, Fashion Shows | Vogue
The latest fashion news, beauty coverage, celebrity style, fashion week updates, culture reviews, and videos on Vogue.com.
Very close cos 0.909 - 05
Esquire - Men's Fashion, Cocktails, Politics, Interviews, and Women
Esquire is your destination for the latest news headlines, culture coverage, political developments, celebrity interviews, mens fashion advice, and food & drink recipes.
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Microsoft 365
- Amazon Route 53
- GlobalSign
- Mailchimp Transactional
Very close cos 0.903 - 06
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Microsoft 365
Very close cos 0.905 - 07
Simple Page
American weekly magazine devoted to celebrity and human-interest
Very close cos 0.903 - 08
New York Magazine
New York Magazine obsessively chronicles the ideas, people, and cultural events that are forever reshaping our world.
Very close cos 0.901 - 09
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.902 - 10
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.902 - 11
American women's fashion and culture magazine
Very close cos 0.897 - 12
Page Six: Latest Celebrity News, Entertainment News & Gossip
Your source for the latest celebrity news, entertainment headlines and celeb gossip, with exclusive stories, photos, video, and more.
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Amazon Route 53
- Adobe Fonts
- Bing Webmaster Tools
Very close cos 0.899 - 13
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close cos 0.899 - 14
Rolling Stone – Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
Get the latest Rolling Stone news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone.
Very close cos 0.895 - 15
Simple Page
American website
Very close cos 0.894 - 16
Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
Online magazine of news, politics, technology, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.
Close cos 0.894 - 17
Everyday Health: Trusted Medical Information, Expert Health Advice, News, Tools, and Resources
Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare providers and patient advocates. Learn more about health
- Atlassian
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Publisher Services
Very close cos 0.895 - 18
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
Close cos 0.894 - 19
Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Route 53
- GlobalSign
Close cos 0.893 - 20
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Microsoft 365
- Amazon Route 53
Close cos 0.892
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to gq.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones GQ uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What GQ is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: _1T-l5uHj96QvrNzZ6AbNpDAxUkZaJ3_tI51RPB4pw9-8nswEKHZ5g==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms19583224
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-836.awsdns-40.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=c2108b9dbc0fc05ff0794006df1c41b6c945bd2c8…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=mYtQWl3namqmk5ikMKT48XVnS+XdjdbkLlkWMcN…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=LUwopxcGVH5-17BEVRKa8HtYO9vl86Pl6OLjd0eST3U
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=vz1vep8vn9fy0akm6d5rkm6zb71533
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what GQ adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Amazon Route 53 15/20
- Meta Business Suite 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- GlobalSign · not on gq.com 12/20
- OneTrust · not on gq.com 10/20
- Zendesk · not on gq.com 7/20
- Google Ad Manager 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Next.js · not on gq.com 5/20
- React · not on gq.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on gq.com 5/20
- Adobe 5/20
- Atlassian 5/20
- Zoom · not on gq.com 5/20