What one page load of scientificamerican.com brought in
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- Ad entities
- 2
- Third-party domains
- 5
- Layout shift (CLS)
- 0.028
- Tranco rank
- 1,847
How it scores
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- Ad restraint
- 8
- Design
- 2
- Reach
- 9
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 7
- Access
- 5
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 3
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What it looks like
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Latest from Scientific American
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- Could a giant iceberg really break off Greenland? Scientists check Tom Cruise’s new movie Digger
- 2026 has been a record hot year for the U.S.—it can only get worse
- This weird particle may have come from a black hole exploding in another dimension
- Can bioengineered bacteria help terraform Mars?
- How to see rainbows on exoplanets
- How to start foraging for edible plants, according to Black Forager
- Mathematicians name 50 of the highest-stakes problems in math
- Google’s Project Suncatcher AI data center test has officially launched to space onboard SpaceX rocket
- Scientists discover that Earth’s crust has repeatedly rolled over—and it’s still happening
- Google tests its plan for AI data centers in space with Project Suncatcher
- Scientists are decoding elephant rumble calls, including ‘greetings’ and ‘coos’
- Democratic Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed explains how science influences his politics
- How climate change is altering petrichor, the glorious smell after it rains
- Archaeologists unearth a ‘major’ early Christian monastery in Scotland
- NASA directive might increase the odds of contaminating Mars
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Where it sits in Science & Environment
- #33 Nautilus70.5
- #34 Physics World70.5
- #35 Scientific American67.5
- #36 SpaceNews67.5
- #37 New Scientist67
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