What we measured
We loaded ecfr.eu 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
- 7
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 7
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 8
- Independence
- 6
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 ecfr.eu, taken with the cookie banner cleared.

Latest from ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations)
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Political crisis in Germany
- Power up: How EU-Africa cooperation can drive Europe’s battery recycling future
- Anti-corruption sanctions: Preparing for the time after Trump
- Latin America’s new imaginaries
- Trust the numbers: Germans are open to a more hawkish China policy
- Hamas has agreed to disarm. Israel should now agree to peace
- If Marine Le Pen wins: A European guide to a far-right France
- Alone at the border: Ceuta and Europe’s solidarity failure
- How splits on the right may threaten Poland’s pro-European camp
- Defining modernity in South-East Asia
- NATO’s digital arsenal: How Europe can avoid a new dependence on America
- Two of a kind: How France and Italy can show the way for Europe’s Africa policy
- The Saudi dilemma: How Yemen could shape the next phase of the Iran war
- Shoring up the Red Sea: Why the next crisis may begin in the Horn of Africa
- Serbia: Inside the leaderless movement
Where it sits in World & Politics
- #7 The Conversation (Global)83
- #8 +972 Magazine81.5
- #9 ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations)81.5
- #10 The Bulwark81.5
- #11 The New Humanitarian81









