Alternatives and competitors
Sites like www.gov.uk
The 20 closest government services portal alternatives to www.gov.uk, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to www.gov.uk? The closest matches are usa.gov, Ohio and Canada. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 10 ms
01 · Entity
About www.gov.uk
www.gov.uk
Welcome to GOV.UK
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
Wikidata: island country in north-west Europe
Summary by Claude
The official UK government website providing information and online access to public services such as tax accounts, benefits, passports, visas, driving licences and state pensions, plus news and publications from government departments.
- Who it’s for
- UK residents, businesses and visitors
- Business model
- Government funded
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to www.gov.uk’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 www.gov.uk
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to www.gov.uk, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Making government services easier to find | USAGov
Find government benefits, services, agencies, and information at USA.gov. Contact elected officials. Learn about passports, Social Security, taxes, and more.
Very close cos 0.936 - 02
Canada.ca
The Government of Canada website is a single point of access to all programs, services, departments, ministries and organizations of the Government of Canada.
- Adobe
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Akamai
- Apache HTTP Server
- Google Search Console
Very close cos 0.925 - 03
Language selection | European Union
Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.
Very close cos 0.919 - 04
Technical Difficulties
executive department of the U.S. federal government
Very close cos 0.919 - 05
Home | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
We're the home base of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Explore the services and resources offered by your government.
Very close cos 0.917 - 06
Not allowed | Mass Gov
state of the United States of America
Very close cos 0.915 - 07
Welcome to The National Archives
Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.
Very close cos 0.912 - 08
Home | Utah.gov
The Official Website of the State of Utah
Very close cos 0.914 - 09
CT.GOV-Connecticut's Official State Website
Very close cos 0.913 - 10
Maryland.gov
An official website of the state of Maryland connecting you to benefits, services, businesses, education, and government information.
Very close cos 0.912 - 11 Very close cos 0.910
- 12
The Official Website of New York State
The official website of the State of New York. Find information about state government agencies and learn more about our programs and services.
Very close cos 0.911 - 13
The Official Web Site for The State of New Jersey
Home of the Official website of the State of New Jersey.
Very close cos 0.911 - 14
Internal Revenue Service | An official website of the United States government
Pay your taxes. Get your refund status. Find IRS forms and answers to tax questions. We help you understand and meet your federal tax responsibilities.
Very close cos 0.908 - 15
Home | Virginia.gov
The official website of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Learn about Virginia government, contact a state agency, and find the services and resources you need.
Very close cos 0.908 - 16
NSW Government
state of Australia
Very close cos 0.906 - 17
California State Portal | CA.gov
CA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.
Very close cos 0.907 - 18
BBC - Home
The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
Very close cos 0.906 - 19
Language selection | Belgium.be
country in western Europe
Very close cos 0.906 - 20
Home - Office for National Statistics
The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.
Very close cos 0.903
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to www.gov.uk’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones www.gov.uk uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What www.gov.uk is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080050-BER
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what www.gov.uk adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on www.gov.uk 17/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on www.gov.uk 14/20
- Apple Business · not on www.gov.uk 11/20
- Atlassian · not on www.gov.uk 9/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on www.gov.uk 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on www.gov.uk 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on www.gov.uk 5/20
- Adobe · not on www.gov.uk 5/20
- Drupal · not on www.gov.uk 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on www.gov.uk 4/20
- PHP · not on www.gov.uk 4/20
- Proofpoint · not on www.gov.uk 4/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on www.gov.uk 4/20
- Amazon Web Services · not on www.gov.uk 3/20
- DocuSign · not on www.gov.uk 3/20
- OpenAI · not on www.gov.uk 3/20