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

Top 10K · #4,756 English 11 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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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

SteamDBBlizzard Northtvtropes.orgplayground.ruInvenBoardGameGeekGameRantPolygongamewith.jpGameBanana

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Wowhead

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wowhead, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    GameBanana gamebanana.com Top 10K English

    GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001

    Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games

  2. 02
    gamewith.jp Top 10K Japanese

    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!

  3. 03
    Metal Archives metal-archives.com Top 10K

    Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives

    website on heavy metal bands

  4. 04
    Polygon polygon.com Top 10K English

    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.

  5. 05
    GameRant gamerant.com Top 10K English

    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.

  6. 06
    BoardGameGeek boardgamegeek.com Top 10K English

    online database of board games, game designers and game publishers worldwide

  7. 07
    Planet Minecraft planetminecraft.com Top 10K English

    Minecraft Internet forum and fansite

  8. 08
    Inven inven.co.kr Top 10K

    South Korean webzine

  9. 09

    DDoS-Guard

  10. 10
    playground.ru Top 10K Russian

    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

  11. 11
    Liquipedia liquipedia.net Top 10K English

    Liquipedia

    esports encyclopedia

  12. 12
    tvtropes.org Top 10K English

    online wiki listing and analyzing conventions (tropes) found in fictional works

  13. 13
    Blizzard North blizzard.com Top 10K English

    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.

  14. 14
    SteamDB steamdb.info Top 10K English

    SteamDB

    online video game database

  15. 15
    gamespot.com Top 10K English

    video game website

  16. 16
    Bahamut Gamer's Community gamer.com.tw Top 10K Chinese

    巴哈姆特電玩資訊站 - 系統異常回報

    Taiwanese ACG Internet forum

  17. 17
    Eldorado eldorado.gg Top 10K English

    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.

  18. 18
    MyAnimeList myanimelist.net Top 10K English

    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!

  19. 19
    Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K English

    Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own

    nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

  20. 20
    Scryfall scryfall.com Top 10K English

    Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Search

    A fast, powerful, comprehensive Magic: The Gathering card search.

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
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Monitoring
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: SZuEnu81J53KYag_Ib7Fh6Xa5yDg5yVHqV3dtL6WKKSSg65OzgtewA==
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com ~all
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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