What we measured
We loaded astrobites.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
- 9
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 5
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 9
- 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 astrobites.org, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Astrobites
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- An eclipse, a trombone and an oscilloscope
- The Dying of the Light
- An Unlikely Couple: A close-in brown dwarf orbiting a massive, aging star
- Not all Black Holes who wander are lost
- Uranus’ moons didn’t come from Uranus
- Could Cosmic Strings Be Hiding in JWST’s Galaxy Counts?
- Where Have All the Star Couples Gone?
- Guest: When Neural Networks Meet Subhalos
- A Few Leaks Lit the Universe
- Congrats M51, you’ve got RELHIC twins!
- Life after LISA: Exploring Plans for Future Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
- Restoring the Round Tower – How Europe’s oldest continuously functioning observatory is getting a facelift
- UFO Sighting in a Dead Galaxy!
- A Tournament of Tension – Cosmological Models and the Hubble Tension
- Dust Deal with It
Where it sits in Science & Environment
- #5 The Narwhal83.5
- #6 Mongabay83
- #7 Astrobites82
- #8 Undark Magazine82
- #9 Centauri Dreams81.5