Alternatives and competitors

Sites like The Sydney Morning Herald

The 20 closest daily newspaper alternatives to The Sydney Morning Herald, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to The Sydney Morning Herald? The closest matches are NZ Herald, Ninemsn and The Age. 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 The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald smh.com.au

Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au

Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.

Wikidata: Australian daily newspaper

Top 10K · #2,632 English 11 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit The Sydney Morning Herald

Summary by Claude

Online edition of The Sydney Morning Herald, a Sydney-based daily newspaper owned by Nine Entertainment, publishing Australian and world news, politics, business, sport, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion, plus newsletters, puzzles and podcasts.

Who it’s for
Australian readers, especially in Sydney and NSW
Business model
Subscriptions and advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Sydney Morning Herald’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

The SunMiami HeraldDaily MailThe Mercury NewsDaily MirrorThe Straits Timesnews.com.auThe AgeNinemsnNZ Herald

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to The Sydney Morning Herald

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Sydney Morning Herald, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    NZ Herald nzherald.co.nz Top 10K English

    NZ Herald: Breaking & Latest New Zealand News - NZ Herald

    Get the latest breaking news, analysis and opinion from NZ and around the world, including politics, business, sport, entertainment, travel and more.

  2. 02
    Ninemsn nine.com.au Top 10K English

    nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world

    Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine

  3. 03
    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.

  4. 04
    news.com.au Top 10K

    Australian online newspaper

  5. 05
    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.

  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 Mercury News mercurynews.com Top 10K English

    The Mercury News - Bay Area news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and commentary

    The Mercury News is the leading source of breaking news, local news, sports, business, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion for Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and beyond

  8. 08
    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.

  9. 09
    Miami Herald miamiherald.com Top 10K

    American daily newspaper

  10. 10
    Dagens Nyheter dn.se Top 10K Swedish

    Dagens Nyheter – senaste nyheterna från Sverige och världen

    Dagens Nyheter – en trovärdig och kvalitativ nyhetskälla med prisad bildjournalistik och granskningar som gör skillnad.

  11. 11
    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

  12. 12
    The Times of Israel timesofisrael.com Top 10K English

    Cloudflare capcha page

    Israel-based online newspaper

  13. 13
    Der Standard derstandard.at Top 10K German

    derStandard.at | Nachrichten, Kommentare & Community

    DER STANDARD – Nachrichten in Echtzeit: Lesen Sie jetzt Nachrichten aktuell aus dem online News-Room der führenden Qualitätszeitung in Österreich.

  14. 14
    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

  15. 15
    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

  16. 16
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation abc.net.au Top 10K English

    ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

    Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.

  17. 17
    Aftonbladet aftonbladet.se Top 10K Swedish

    Aftonbladet

    Aftonbladet är Sveriges primära och mest engagerande nyhetskälla. Genom journalistiken värnar vi sanningen och granskar makten.

  18. 18
    sueddeutsche.de Top 10K German

    Aktuelle Nachrichten und Kommentare - SZ.de

    Nachrichten aus Deutschland und aller Welt mit Kommentaren und Hintergrundberichten.

  19. 19
    Expressen expressen.se Top 10K Swedish

    Nyheter - senaste nyheterna i Sverige och världen

    Sveriges bästa nyhetssajt med nyheter, sport och nöje!

  20. 20
    Siol siol.net Top 10K Slovenian

    Siol.net

    Najbolj sveže in aktualne novice iz Slovenije in sveta, intervjuji, kolumne, odlične zgodbe iz sveta športa, avtomobilov in trendov

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to smh.com.au’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones The Sydney Morning Herald uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What The Sydney Morning Herald is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Fonts
Tag managers
Advertising
CDN
  • Fastly header x-served-by: cache-syd10144-SYD, cache-syd10173-SYD, cache-ber1080058-BER
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=3TaE5qM0WY8S6jLK
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=7JmN6dazOT7LXjyHvi_YmaRlN4ZcwfGCyQ7Cf…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Vm97OWVGuKdmknOh4TFbFDmfv-JLFQljOHArf0X9_qQ
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=e2736fab20b8db58132d7cb294330e593e27d1b7

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