Sites like xkcd

01 · Entity

About xkcd

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Wikidata: webcomic created by Randall Munroe

Top 10K · #3,668 5 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

A serial webcomic by Randall Munroe featuring stick-figure comics about science, math, technology, language and relationships, with an archive of numbered strips free to share under a Creative Commons license.

Who it’s for

Science, tech and math enthusiasts

Business model

Merchandise and book sales

• webcomic
• stick figure comics
• science humor
• math jokes
• programming humor
• comic archive
• RSS comic feed
• Creative Commons comics

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

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   StumbleUpon

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3. 03
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   Boing Boing boingboing.net Top 10K English

   Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things

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   W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English

   W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

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8. 08
   mechacomic.jp Top 10K Japanese

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9. 09
   cmoa.jp Top 10K

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    Toomics toomics.com Top 10K English

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    Habr habr.com Top 10K English

    Publications / My feed / Habr

    collaborative blog

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12. 12
    litnet.com Top 10K Russian

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13. 13
    GeeksforGeeks geeksforgeeks.org Top 10K English

    GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal

    Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.

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14. 14
    piccoma.com Top 10K Japanese

    ピッコマ｜無料漫画・小説、新作コミックが毎日楽しめる！

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    SSRN ssrn.com Top 10K

    Content Blocked

    online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers and related content

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    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

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    Gizmodo gizmodo.com Top 10K English

    Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

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    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

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    Know Your Meme knowyourmeme.com Top 10K English

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    DeviantArt deviantart.com Top 1K English

    DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community

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04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What xkcd is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.