What we measured
We loaded nautil.us 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
- 6
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 8
- Access
- 5
- 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 nautil.us, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Nautilus
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
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- How Vipers Got Their Venom
- The Extraterrestrial Rings of Bronze Age Greece
- Extreme Space Weather Could Delay Your Next Flight
- In Stunning Color, a Celestial “Treasure Chest” Full of Stars
- Sprinting vs. Jogging: The Benefit Is in the Blood
- The Quest to Understand the Forgotten Psychedelic
- Watch: Australian Dolphin Filmed Catching Fish with Shells
- Awe-Inspiring Images from This Year’s Solar Eclipse
- We May Have Finally Identified the Brain’s Language Network
- The Trouble with Cancer Screening
- An Ice Island as Big as Manhattan Just Broke Off Greenland
- Extraordinary Experiences Are More Common Than You Think
- Is Cannabis Good for Your Heart?
Where it sits in Science & Environment
- #32 BirdLife International74
- #33 Emergence Magazine74
- #34 Nautilus73.5
- #35 Physics World73.5
- #36 Sentient73.5