Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Tom's Guide
The 20 closest technology news and reviews alternatives to Tom's Guide, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Tom's Guide? The closest matches are CNET, PCMag and Engadget. 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 Tom's Guide
Tom's Guide tomsguide.com
Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
Wikidata: website
Summary by Claude
Technology news website publishing consumer tech product reviews, buying guides, deals and how-to articles, owned by Future plc.
- Who it’s for
- Consumers shopping for or using tech
- Business model
- Advertising and affiliate commissions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Tom's Guide’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 Tom's Guide
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Tom's Guide, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Very close cos 0.963 - 02
English-language computer magazine
Very close cos 0.949 - 03
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
Very close cos 0.948 - 04
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.
Very close cos 0.944 - 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.
Very close cos 0.944 - 06
PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Microsoft 365
Very close cos 0.941 - 07
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.939 - 08
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.
- Fastly
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Publisher Services
Very close cos 0.938 - 09
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..
Very close cos 0.936 - 10
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.
Very close cos 0.933 - 11
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.932 - 12
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.
Very close cos 0.928 - 13
9to5Mac - Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day
Apple News & Mac Rumors Breaking All Day
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Adobe Fonts
Very close cos 0.923 - 14
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
- Comscore
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Publisher Services
Very close cos 0.920 - 15
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.
Very close cos 0.918 - 16
MacRumors: Apple News and Rumors
Apple News and Rumors
Very close cos 0.917 - 17
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.915 - 18
GSMArena.com - mobile phone reviews, news, specifications and more...
GSMArena.com - The ultimate resource for GSM handset information
Very close cos 0.914 - 19
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.
Very close cos 0.913 - 20
PC Gamer | THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
British-American video game magazine
Very close cos 0.911
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to tomsguide.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Tom's Guide uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Tom's Guide 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-scroll-snap-strictness:
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lon4243-LON, cache-ber1080035-BER
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms39640003
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-50.awsdns-06.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: AXmk3QRU_rEstMST70XJGrMWcFZaH8xG9J-C3FskFEs
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=zhslinw1jtp7z2cnbbnqel0g5user8
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Tom's Guide adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- PHP · not on tomsguide.com 11/20
- WordPress · not on tomsguide.com 11/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- Google Ad Manager 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on tomsguide.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on tomsguide.com 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on tomsguide.com 7/20
- nginx · not on tomsguide.com 6/20
- Comscore 6/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on tomsguide.com 5/20
- OneTrust · not on tomsguide.com 4/20