What we measured
We loaded aperture.org in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 8
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 6
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 8
- Access
- 9
- Cadence
- 5
- Independence
- 9
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of aperture.org, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Aperture
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- An Odyssey Across the Japanese Archipelago
- The Untold Story Behind Larry Clark’s “Tulsa”
- How Three Friends Turned Photography into a Way of Life
- A People’s History of Puerto Rico
- Searching for Truth on the Set of “The X-Files”
- A New Space for Photography Explores Who Gets to Be an American
- The Summer Belongs to Joel Meyerowitz
- 25 Photobooks That Define America
- How Schiaparelli Reimagined the Fashion Photograph
- A Whimsical Time Capsule of Everyday China
- Zig Jackson Won’t Let Native America Be Forgotten
Where it sits in Culture & Arts
- #16 Colossal76.5
- #17 Words Without Borders76.5
- #18 Aperture76
- #19 The Art Newspaper76
- #20 Photogénie75.5