Alternatives and competitors
Sites like thespruce.com
The 20 closest home and garden media alternatives to thespruce.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to thespruce.com? The closest matches are Good Housekeeping, Lifehacker and Southern Living. 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 thespruce.com
thespruce.com
Simple Page
Summary by Claude
The Spruce is an online lifestyle publication with articles and guides on home decorating, cleaning, gardening, DIY home improvement, and related household topics.
- Who it’s for
- Homeowners and home enthusiasts
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to thespruce.com’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 thespruce.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to thespruce.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Good Housekeeping: Trusted Home Advice, Product Reviews & Recipes
Discover expert-tested product reviews, modern home tips, cleaning hacks, new recipes, health advice and more from Good Housekeeping. Since 1885, we've helped you make smart choices for your home and life.
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Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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Simple Page
American magazine
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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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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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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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Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
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Garten, DIY, Einrichtung und Bauprojekte | Kostenlos sehen | HGTV
Bei HOME & GARDEN TV findest du alle Themen rund um Haus & Garten🗸: Ob du Design🗸 liebst, neue Rezepte suchst oder DIY-Ideen🗸 brauchst – HGTV ist dein neuer Lieblings-Lifestyle-Sender! 🗸Alle Infos auf HGTV.com
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Homepage | Entrepreneur
Your ultimate resource for small business news, entrepreneurship, business management, franchise opportunities, growth strategies and making money. Learn how to succeed.
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Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
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Simple Page
American website
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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.
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Houzz for Pros and Homeowners | Build and Design Software | Try Free for 30 Days
Houzz has powerful software for construction and design professionals. For homeowners, find inspiration, products, and pros to design your dream home.
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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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Architectural Digest Homepage | Architectural Digest
Architectural Digest is the international design authority, featuring the work of top architects and designers.
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fastcompany.com
American magazine
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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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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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nytimes.com
American daily newspaper (founded 1851)
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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.
- Google Search Console
- Amazon CloudFront
- GlobalSign
- Google Tag Manager
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Route 53
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to thespruce.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones thespruce.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What thespruce.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-content:
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563243fc8552ff5-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:64.125.213.247 ip4:216.223.13.247 ip4:34.194.76.185 includ…
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 ip4:64.125.213.247 ip4:216.223.13.247 ip4:34.194.76.185 includ…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=4d443bb146b2a60fc0c0216c899a6ef9baa971cc3…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=uUTQHYge655RxaiCqp-IAyc/Q7GgtoJziDouyp0…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=e2f9c90b-d9b4-4aa7-971e-ee1e7a6df4cb
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=bg_ccOnWDNxQ6l2teGTZ8B11AS8w0FrtZYIvEZP0ACs
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-hi9o2mdtE69Paa4KsBVHEVRv
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:64.125.213.247 ip4:216.223.13.247 ip4:34.194.76.185 includ…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=HS702akS4ePdWYZtjohQXrZz5mhLiB9aAUVPi0pL
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what thespruce.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thespruce.com 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on thespruce.com 11/20
- GlobalSign · not on thespruce.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thespruce.com 10/20
- Amazon SES 9/20
- OneTrust · not on thespruce.com 7/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on thespruce.com 7/20
- PHP · not on thespruce.com 7/20
- WordPress · not on thespruce.com 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Tailwind CSS 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on thespruce.com 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on thespruce.com 5/20
- Zoom · not on thespruce.com 5/20