Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Metro
The 20 closest tabloid newspaper alternatives to Metro, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 16 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Metro? The closest matches are Daily Express, Daily Mail and The Independent. 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 Metro
Metro metro.co.uk
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Wikidata: British free daily newspaper
Summary by Claude
Online edition of Metro, a British free tabloid newspaper published by DMG Media, covering UK and world news, celebrity and showbiz, sport, lifestyle, TV and entertainment.
- Who it’s for
- UK general readers and commuters
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Metro’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 Metro
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Metro, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Latest UK and World News, Sport and Comment | Express.co.uk
Latest news, showbiz, sport, comment, lifestyle, city, video and pictures from the Daily Express and Sunday Express newspapers and Express.co.uk
Very close cos 0.931 - 02
UK Home | Daily Mail Online
Daily Mail Online - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Very close cos 0.925 - 03
News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.
Very close cos 0.922 - 04
News, sport, celebrities and gossip | The Sun
Get the latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle from The Sun
Very close cos 0.919 - 05
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
Very close cos 0.919 - 06
The Mirror: The Heart of Britain
Get the latest news, sport, celebrity gossip, TV, politics and lifestyle from The Mirror. Big stories with a big heart, always with you in mind.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Amazon SES
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Ad Manager
- Meta Business Suite
Very close cos 0.914 - 07
The Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimedia
The Straits Times - Get latest breaking news, business, sports, lifestyle, tech & multimedia and more news in Singapore, Asia & rest of the world at straitstimes.com.
Very close cos 0.914 - 08
British daily broadsheet newspaper
Very close cos 0.914 - 09
British daily national newspaper based in London
Very close cos 0.909 - 10
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.
Very close cos 0.905 - 11
Breaking China, Asia, HK News, Opinions and Insights | South China Morning Post
News, opinions, infographics and videos on China issues: geopolitics, diplomacy, economy, technology and lifestyle.
Very close cos 0.903 - 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.
Very close cos 0.903 - 13
British weekly news and international affairs publication (founded 1843)
Very close cos 0.901 - 14
nytimes.com
American daily newspaper (founded 1851)
Very close cos 0.902 - 15
Aktuelle Nachrichten | BILD.de
BILD.de: Die Seite 1 für aktuelle Nachrichten und Themen, Bilder und Videos aus den Bereichen News, Wirtschaft, Politik, Show, Sport, und Promis.
Very close cos 0.901 - 16
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.900 - 17
20minutos.es | Diario abierto | Última hora, local, España y el mundo
Diario de información general y local más leído de España, consulta las noticias de última hora de España, internacional, local, deportes en 20minutos
Very close cos 0.899 - 18
iDNES.cz – s námi víte víc
Nejnovější zprávy z vašeho kraje, České republiky a celého světa.
Very close cos 0.898 - 19
New York Post – Breaking News, Top Headlines, Photos & Videos
Your source for breaking news, photos, and videos about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.
Very close cos 0.898 - 20
Latest & Breaking News Melbourne, Victoria | The Age
The Age has the latest local news on Melbourne, Victoria. Read National News from Australia, World News, Business News and Breaking News stories.
Very close cos 0.896
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to metro.co.uk’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Metro uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Metro 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 7.1.4
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=112E45BC98B953FBE2B1AC6F943D5842F32F541C54504096A…
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:aspmx.sailthru.com …
- Microsoft 365 MX metro-co-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a24-65.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=5c874982d9eb77c27639f75fe9649403668793e47…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=YVO51xB8CMklZCk2cV3OMCVY9wIEP2GoyyujEBz…
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 11110DC8D42E74E13F24B3A18E7CFB8A
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=x1mgnxos79dq
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: LeMDJtEkFI9nhykTNIyjEFjWsywI4Emu0vB1VDmeMVU
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Metro adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metro.co.uk 13/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on metro.co.uk 12/20
- Adobe 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on metro.co.uk 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on metro.co.uk 7/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on metro.co.uk 7/20
- Zoom · not on metro.co.uk 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on metro.co.uk 6/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on metro.co.uk 6/20
- Apple Business · not on metro.co.uk 6/20
- Miro · not on metro.co.uk 6/20