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

Top 10K · #3,192 English 16 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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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

Bored PandaThe TimesThe Daily TelegraphThe Straits TimesDaily MirrorThe GuardianThe SunThe IndependentDaily MailDaily Express

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Metro

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Metro, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Daily Express express.co.uk Top 10K English

    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

  2. 02
    Daily Mail dailymail.com Top 1K

    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.

  3. 03
    The Independent independent.co.uk Top 1K English

    News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news

    The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

  4. 04
    The Sun thesun.co.uk Top 10K English

    News, sport, celebrities and gossip | The Sun

    Get the latest news, exclusives, sport, celebrities, showbiz, politics, business and lifestyle from The Sun

  5. 05
    The Guardian theguardian.com Top 1K English

    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

  6. 06
    Daily Mirror mirror.co.uk Top 10K English

    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.

  7. 07
    The Straits Times straitstimes.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    The Daily Telegraph telegraph.co.uk Top 1K

    British daily broadsheet newspaper

  9. 09
    The Times thetimes.com Top 10K

    British daily national newspaper based in London

  10. 10
    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English

    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.

  11. 11
    South China Morning Post scmp.com Top 10K English

    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.

  12. 12
    Page Six pagesix.com Top 10K English

    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.

  13. 13
    The Economist economist.com Top 10K English

    British weekly news and international affairs publication (founded 1843)

  14. 14
    The New York Times nytimes.com Top 1K English

    nytimes.com

    American daily newspaper (founded 1851)

  15. 15
    Bild bild.de Top 1K German

    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.

  16. 16
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

    magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.

  17. 17
    20 minutos 20minutos.es Top 10K Spanish

    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

  18. 18
    iDNES.cz idnes.cz Top 10K Czech

    iDNES.cz – s námi víte víc

    Nejnovější zprávy z vašeho kraje, České republiky a celého světa.

  19. 19
    New York Post nypost.com Top 10K English

    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.

  20. 20
    The Age theage.com.au Top 10K English

    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.

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
Fonts
Analytics
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=112E45BC98B953FBE2B1AC6F943D5842F32F541C54504096A…
Monitoring
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
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

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