Alternatives and competitors
Sites like O’Reilly
The 20 closest technology news and analysis alternatives to O’Reilly, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to O’Reilly? The closest matches are The Verge, Slashdot and XDA Developers. 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 O’Reilly
O’Reilly onlamp.com
Radar – O’Reilly
Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology
Summary by Claude
OnLAMP.com, a former O'Reilly site about open-source LAMP web development, now redirects to O'Reilly Radar. Radar publishes articles, newsletters and commentary on technology trends such as AI, data, software architecture and security.
- Who it’s for
- Software developers and technology leaders
- Business model
- Lead generation for O'Reilly learning platform subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to O’Reilly’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 O’Reilly
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to O’Reilly, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close cos 0.895 - 02
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
Close cos 0.890 - 05
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
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MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology news & insights | AI, Climate Change, BioTech, and more
Close cos 0.887 - 07
Technology news and analysis | The Register
All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register
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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast
Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..
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online trade publication and social community
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Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
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Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
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ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs
The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.
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How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
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Harvard Business Review - Ideas and Advice for Leaders
Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
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PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
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Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
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English-language computer magazine
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heise online – IT news, guides and background information | heise online
News and forums on computers, IT, science, media and politics. Price comparison of hardware and software as well as downloads at Heise Medien.
Close cos 0.877 - 20
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Close cos 0.876
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to onlamp.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones O’Reilly uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What O’Reilly is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-includes/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- A/B testing
- VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Security
- Akamai Bot Manager cookie bm_sz
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 0 - 0 -
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a4-64.akam.net
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what O’Reilly adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on onlamp.com 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on onlamp.com 14/20
- PHP 11/20
- WordPress 11/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on onlamp.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on onlamp.com 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on onlamp.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on onlamp.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on onlamp.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on onlamp.com 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on onlamp.com 6/20
- nginx · not on onlamp.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on onlamp.com 6/20
- Comscore · not on onlamp.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on onlamp.com 4/20