What we measured
We loaded lrb.co.uk 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
- 8
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 10
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 3
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 8
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 lrb.co.uk, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from London Review of Books
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Anahid Nersessian: Little Ayatollahs
- Chloe Diski: Diary
- Chris Power: Egg in an Eggcup
- Dennis Duncan: At Charleston
- Emily Wilson: An Uncomplicated Man
- Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: An ’ell of an ’eadache
- Gaby Wood: Translucency
- James Butler: Short Cuts
- Letters
- Maureen N. McLane: Fire
- Patricia Lockwood: The World
- Peter Howarth: Types and Typology
- T.J. Clark: Night Visitors
- Table of contents
- William Davies: Young People Are Different
Where it sits in Culture & Arts
- #1 JSTOR Daily84
- #2 London Review of Books82.5
- #3 The Quietus82.5
- #4 Bandcamp Daily81