What we measured
We loaded daringfireball.net 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
- 10
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 8
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 10
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 daringfireball.net, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Daring Fireball
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- Hands-On With Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold
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Where it sits in Tech & AI
- #1 Daring Fireball92
- #2 Pluralistic (Cory Doctorow)90.5
- #3 Simon Willison's Weblog90.5