Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Wowhead
The 20 closest video game database alternatives to Wowhead, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Wowhead? The closest matches are GameBanana, gamewith.jp and Metal Archives. 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 Wowhead
Wowhead wowhead.com
World of Warcraft News and Guides
The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.
Wikidata: database for World of Warcraft
Summary by Claude
A World of Warcraft fan resource with a searchable database of items, quests, NPCs and spells, plus news, class and raid guides, and tools such as talent calculators and a transmog planner.
- Who it’s for
- World of Warcraft players
- Business model
- Advertising and premium subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wowhead’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 Wowhead
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wowhead, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
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ゲームウィズ - 日本最大級のゲームレビュー・攻略サイト
日本最大級のゲーム総合情報サイト。Switch2・Switch・PS5・PS4・PC・スマホアプリのおすすめゲームや新作ゲームのランキング、評価、レビュー、ゲーム攻略の最新情報を毎日お届け。ゲーム探しはゲームウィズ!
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Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
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Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
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GameRant - Breaking News, Reviews & Everything Else in the World of Video Games
GameRant delivers content written by gamers for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews.
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online database of board games, game designers and game publishers worldwide
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Minecraft Internet forum and fansite
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PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
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Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
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online wiki listing and analyzing conventions (tropes) found in fictional works
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Blizzard Entertainment
Creators of the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch series, Blizzard Entertainment is an industry-leading developer responsible for the most epic entertainment experiences, ever.
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SteamDB
online video game database
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video game website
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巴哈姆特電玩資訊站 - 系統異常回報
Taiwanese ACG Internet forum
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Eldorado - Largest & Safest Game Items Marketplace
Buy game items, accounts, currency, top ups, boosting & gift cards safely. Shop millions of offers for hundreds of games. Legit sellers, always in stock.
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MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
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Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
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Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Search
A fast, powerful, comprehensive Magic: The Gathering card search.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to wowhead.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Wowhead uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Wowhead is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://wow.zamimg.com/js/3rd-party/jquery.2.1.3.min.js?fa3be9bf
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://wow.zamimg.com/js/react/vendors-fontawesome.c2cf8f13.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Monitoring
- Datadog RUM page source: datadoghq-browser-agent.com
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: SZuEnu81J53KYag_Ib7Fh6Xa5yDg5yVHqV3dtL6WKKSSg65OzgtewA==
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com ~all
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-742.awsdns-28.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: SScjPPnjqJ0lGTlZeVs9x0D3_jmctKZ-6nE4cvfGL00
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Wowhead adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Cloudflare · not on wowhead.com 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wowhead.com 11/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wowhead.com 7/20
- nginx 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on wowhead.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on wowhead.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on wowhead.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- Google Ad Manager 3/20
- jQuery 3/20
- PHP · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- Atlassian · not on wowhead.com 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on wowhead.com 3/20