What we measured
We loaded lwn.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
- 8
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 5
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 9
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 lwn.net, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from LWN.net
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- [$] BPF, continuous testing, and stable kernels
- Python packaging council candidates announced
- Security updates for Friday
- Domas: Bypassing memory protection with AMD's memory controllers
- rsync 3.5.0 released
- [$] 128-Bit page tables for Arm
- Security updates for Thursday
- [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 13, 2026
- [$] Block-layer error injection
- [$] A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware
- QEMU 11.1 released
- Security updates for Wednesday
- [$] KVM planes head for takeoff
- Bernard: GNOME Shell design dreams
- Security updates for Tuesday
Where it sits in Tech & AI
- #11 Platformer84
- #12 Citizen Lab83.5
- #13 LWN.net83.5
- #14 Troy Hunt83.5
- #15 Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Blog83