What we measured
We loaded cnbc.com 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
- 3
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 10
- Editorial
- 6
- Signal-to-noise
- 4
- Access
- 8
- Cadence
- 10
- Independence
- 2
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 cnbc.com, taken with the cookie banner cleared.

Latest from CNBC
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
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- Wendy's stock jumps on report of potential takeover bid from Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management
- Home Depot CEO taking temporary medical leave, two top execs to run the retailer
- GM reaches up to $4.5 billion parts deal designed to avoid supply chain troubles
- Why Jensen Huang’s $500 billion AI financing plan faces a big risk from China
- Invitation Homes CEO says ban on institutional homebuying will bring down prices, but not immediately
- Trump wants to split the MMR vaccine. Experts say that's unlikely — and comes with consequences
- Why JPMorgan is investing big in the 2028 LA Olympics
- Target appoints its first chief AI officer as big retailers bet on AI
- Baby products company Frida is expanding into kids’ personal care
- Nvidia lines up $500 billion in financing as CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC his chips are ‘investable asset’
- HHS moves to tighten oversight of food ingredients as safety concerns mount
- Boeing sells eVTOL subsidiaries, takes stake in Archer
Where it sits in Business & Money
- #38 McKinsey Insights69
- #39 TechCrunch65.5
- #40 CNBC64.5
- #41 MarketWatch – Top Stories62.5
- #42 Business Insider57