What we measured
We loaded longreads.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
- 10
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 6
- 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 longreads.com, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Longreads
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- The Great Romance Slump
- The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
- The Ferry Boat Children
- Thank This Retired Projectionist for Those 3 a.m. Odyssey 70-mm. Imax Showings
- Whose Babies Are These?
- Rachel Aviv: Mother and Daughter
- Here’s the Scoop: A Reading List on Ice Cream
- Parting Shot
- 16 Hours in an Oakland Dive Bar
- Moment, Expand
- Speaking for the Dead
- Mister Anthony
- How I Became the Villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
- Colossal Biosciences Said It Cloned Red Wolves. Is It for Real?
- The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Where it sits in Ideas & Longform
- #11 Guernica81
- #12 The Honest Broker80.5
- #13 Longreads80
- #14 The Diff79
- #15 Chartbook78.5