Review (March 2024)
Search and browse the internet without being tracked or targeted. startpage is the world's most private search engine. use startpage to protect your personal data.
2M
Estimated Revenue
61.1M
Website Visitors
2.7/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about Startpage?
What is Startpage's Revenue?
Startpage's estimated revenue for 2023 is $2M.
What does Startpage do?
Google search results with Startpage privacy. Startpage combines great search results with total privacy protection. No IP addresses are stored, no personal data is gathered or passed on to third parties, and no identifying cookies are placed on your browser. Since Startpage is based in Europe, it offers the crucial protection of being outside U.S. jurisdiction, where it is not subject to the Patriot Act and other U.S. data collection mandates. Privacy is the company's mission and the driving force behind its innovations. In addition to the search products, which process over 2 billion searches per year, the company also developed the revolutionary private, encrypted email service StartMail.com for personal and business use.
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Startpage?
6/mo Traffic Growth
13.40%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
61M
Time on Site
9.0Mins
Pages per Visit
3.0
Bounce Rate
37%
How fast is Startpage growing?
Startpage has grown by 22.8% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Startpage?
Last month, Startpage received 61M visitors who spent an average of 9.0 minutes on the website and visited 3.0 different pages per session. Overall, 37% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Startpage?
59.7M people (98%) visit Startpage directly. 643.1k (1%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 394.3k (1%) discover Startpage through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 156.6k (0%) visitors come from Startpage's email newsletters. Finally, 5.4k (0.0%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Startpage?
Startpage's top market is the Germany and they receive 28.4M (46.5%) people.Then the 2nd is United States with 10.3M (16.9%).The 3rd is is Switzerland with 2.8M (4.6%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What are Startpage's ads on Google?
Google Ads
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What do Startpage's customers say about them?
Review Score
2.7/5
Total Reviews
14
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Comm ent
Service has become as sh1tty as the rest ...
Reviewed on 2021-02-13T05:56:25
Service has become as sh1tty as the rest of search engines out there. Regularly "internal server error","follower access not allowed", "server time out" whatever. No website surfing without regular refreshing even with simple pages like wikipedia.
Since a few months after few searches this appears for hours: "
Just checking ...
Settings Support Mail
We apologize for the inconvenience: to prevent possible abuse of the Startpage.com service, your Internet connection has been prevented from accessing it at this time.
This happens when a large number of search requests are received from one's Internet connection in a short amount of time -- for example, if you are using "screen-scraping" software, or if you are sharing a connection with many people, perhaps through a proxy service.
Otherwise, if you have received this message in error, please help us in investigation by providing following information:
- Are you using TOR or other anonymous proxies?
- Do you have special browser configuration or extensions?
- Are you using VPN?
- Are you using a company network?
We will seek to refine and correct this whenever possible. Thank you for your patience.
Email (optional) Description"
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wcjos
Periodical captcha checks make this search engine uncomfortable sometimes
Reviewed on 2021-02-04T22:00:55
Startpage should avoid or improve this process.
Jessica Salmonson
Startpage's CAPTICHA is idiotic and poor taste
Reviewed on 2021-02-04T16:40:55
The people at startpage are acting like Je*ks using the dang CAPTCHA thing, any spam is their problemnot our problem and they shouldn't force uses to deal with something they can fix with far more user friendly methods.
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Search for the website site
boagworld then search: why captcha sucks to find the referenced article
"We switched to the audio version in the hopes that would help. It didn’t. It is beyond me how anybody with a visual impairment could decipher that noise! CAPTCHA is in no way accessible.
To make matters worse my wife was trying to complete this task on a mobile device. Refreshing the CAPTCHA was fiddly. Each time she had to reselect the field to make another guess. She also had to wait for the page to reload over the poor 3G connection.
It is not that my wife is an outlier. 38% of people fail to complete a CAPTCHA first time. From there, things get even worse. 80% of second attempts fail, 70% of third attempts and 90% of fourth. Few are willing to try more than five times and who can blame them. And that was on a desktop. Imagine what the failure rate is on a mobile device. A device where the CAPTCHA picture is smaller and even harder to read.
But CAPTCHA isn’t just frustrating for the user. It is also bad for business. When Reddit removed CAPTCHA from its signup process they saw an 8% increase. That means CAPTCHA was driving away almost 10% of people.
The ridiculous thing is that CAPTCHA is unnecessary.
When it comes to SPAM there are alternatives to CAPTCHA. Alternatives such as solving basic puzzles or using pictures. But these alternatives miss the point. They are still making spam the users problem. Why should the user be inconvenienced because we have a problem with spam?
What is more there is no reason why the user needs to ever know about our spam problem. Spam filters have become sophisticated and can remove the majority of attempts.
The Honeypot technique is another excellent solution. A solution that doesn’t need the user to do anything. This involves creating a hidden field invisible to users but visible to bots. The developer labels the field in such a way to encourage bots to spam it. If the field has content in it then we can presume it is spam.
In fact there are no end of alternatives to CAPTCHA. You have to wonder why it is still so popular. In fact I have read comments that justify CAPTCHA on the basis that it is widely used. This is of course circular logic.
The truth is CAPTCHA is easier and cheaper. It is easier to make our problems with security and spam the users problem. Easier than tackling the problem on our end. The flaw in this logic is that in doing so we are driving those users away and that is costing us (businesses) money."
Get rid of the damn CAPTICHA I can't read it' it's hard and and I'm too deaf to use the auto version, not to mention it's so annoying that I'm now using Bing search fix this or watch as less people use your search. I'm not switching browsers just to use your search I love brave and refuse to compromise my security.
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Alex
Much better / more relevant UK search…
Reviewed on 2021-01-22T13:04:45
Much better / more relevant UK search results than DuckDuck Go. Seems fast. Seems to work fine with my VPN.Can't configure as default search engine in Safari, but can do in Firefox. Very happy so far.
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Hape De
Startpage became UNUSEFUL !!!
Reviewed on 2021-01-17T13:19:11
Startpage became UNUSEFUL !!!
I am NOT using a proxy or VPN but do access the Internet via a huge Internetprovider.Neveretheless in 80 % of the search requests I receive
"We apologize for the inconvenience: to prevent possible abuse of the Startpage.com service, your Internet connection has been prevented from accessing it at this time."
IT IS ENOUGH NOW - I will remove Startpage as standard search engine from my browser
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Gena Ferde
Trashy Anti-Privacy Search Engine
Reviewed on 2021-01-04T23:28:20
I have switched from StartPage to Qwant because I am tired of seeing this pop-up:
"We apologize for the inconvenience: to prevent possible abuse of the Startpage.com service,your Internet connection has been prevented from accessing it at this time.
This happens when a large number of search requests are received from one's Internet connection in a short amount of time -- for example, if you are using "screen-scraping" software, or if you are sharing a connection with many people, perhaps through a proxy service.
Otherwise, if you have received this message in error, please help us in investigation by providing following information:
- Are you using TOR or other anonymous proxies?
- Do you have special browser configuration or extensions?
- Are you using VPN?
- Are you using a company network?
We will seek to refine and correct this whenever possible. Thank you for your patience."
I don't have patience for a dishonest company like StartPage. Claiming to care about privacy and making it hard for people to use a search engine when they use a proxy or V.P.N. are two different things. Which is why I got tired of StartPage's petty excuses, especially since StartPage has stooped to very low level in regards to quality service.
StartPage used to have a better quality search engine before that pop-up started showing that I mentioned earlier. I think that pop-up started showing after StartPage was using a captcha system. Unfortunately, it just makes StartPage look like a petty shadow that can't hold a candle to its former glory anymore. Even Google and Qwant have more search results than StartPage does. It's saddening, but I already cried a river long ago. So, I'm just here "eating popcorn" and mocking StartPage instead of taking it seriously, which is why I call it FartPage because it's nasty like a fart with nasty quality of service.
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Ena Ilferd
Doesn't Work Like it Used To
Reviewed on 2020-07-25T20:57:33
The people who control StartPage pretentiously claim that StartPage is privacy friendly and yet those hypocrites have a problem when you are using a V.P.N.to find search results. If you can't use a V.P.N. on StartPage, then StartPage isn't really privacy friendly at all. You're basically allowing your internet service provider to know what you're doing online while using StartPage if you are not using your V.P.N. Which makes the phrase privacy friendly meaningless at that point. StartPage has less search results than the Google search engine does. Because I've tried searching for songs on Spotify, and StartPage doesn't have as much Spotify songs on its search engine compared to Google's search engine. I have to go back and forth when I use Google's search engine and StartPage's search engine when StartPage is used for privacy and when Google is used for more search results because StartPage doesn't update its search engine as quickly as Google does. I have to turn my V.P.N. off and on sometimes because the StartPage system detects my V.P.N. and doesn't let me look for search results, which makes the phrase privacy friendly pointless. I'm getting tired of StartPage's pathetic excuses for having a worse service that it had a couple of years ago. Also, I can't use StartPage anymore unless I allow JavaScript and finish captcha puzzles, which is a privacy nightmare already.
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Privacy!
Startpage FTW!
Reviewed on 2020-02-06T21:40:11
Love Startpage, better results than DuckDuckGo and reliable extension!
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