What does The Star use?

As of October 2026, runsonwhat has found 58 tools at The Star (thestar.com) in public records. Edge & Hosting: Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services and Amazon Route 53. Application: jQuery, Google Fonts and Font Awesome. Data & Observability: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and web-vitals. Go-to-market: Google Ads, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads. Company Ops: Microsoft 365, reCAPTCHA and Let's Encrypt. Last checked October 26, 2026.

The Star uses Amazon Web Services for hosting and cloud infrastructure, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found Amazon Web Services through Amazon Web Services code on thestar.com. Amazon Web Services is used by 145,809 companies runsonwhat tracks.

The sales tools runsonwhat has found at The Star are Bombora (October 2026); no CRM shows up in The Star's public records. runsonwhat found Bombora through Bombora code on thestar.com. Bombora is used by 7,846 companies runsonwhat tracks.

The Star uses Microsoft 365 for email and office software, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found Microsoft 365 through a DNS verification record for Microsoft 365 and email records. Microsoft 365 is used by 712,553 companies runsonwhat tracks.

The Star uses Google Analytics for analytics, alongside Google Tag Manager, comScore and Segment, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found Google Analytics through Google Analytics code on thestar.com. Google Analytics is used by 884,576 companies runsonwhat tracks.

The Star uses web-vitals for monitoring, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). runsonwhat found web-vitals through web-vitals code on thestar.com. web-vitals is used by 28,468 companies runsonwhat tracks.

The Star has used Adobe Analytics since at least July 2014, going by the first public certificate of the thestar.com subdomain that points at Adobe Analytics.

Yes. runsonwhat found jQuery at The Star through jQuery code on thestar.com. jQuery is a Frontend tool used by 918,309 companies runsonwhat tracks.

The companies with the stacks most like The Star's are Yorkshire Post, lindependant.fr, Andalucía Información and Sinar Daily, according to runsonwhat (October 2026). Each shares 15 to 38 tools with The Star, and rare tools count for more than common ones like Google Workspace, so the match reflects real stack choices.

runsonwhat reads public records only. Of the 58 tools at The Star, 35 were found through code on thestar.com, 11 through website configuration files, 9 through DNS records, 2 through subdomains that point at the vendor and 1 through email records. A tool is listed only when a direct record backs it up; DNS is rechecked weekly and thestar.com about monthly.