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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- The Social Reckoning is a ‘surreal’ portrait of social media’s harms, scientist says
- I gave Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots my passwords for a week
- Just how sunlike is the sun?
- Feverish after a vaccine? The reason could be your gut microbiome
- One doctor’s fight to make IUD placement better
- The most exciting claims from OpenAI’s heap of new proofs
- Mathematicians marvel, and grumble, at OpenAI’s trove of new results
- Astronomers discover record-breaking ancient cosmic outburst
- This September was the hottest ever on record for the U.S.
- Artemis II images boost NASA’s moon base plans
- Hurricane Isaias just set a new record for Atlantic storms
- The ‘Kelvin wave’ hitting California is a potent warning about sea-level rise
- Mathematicians invented a knitting stitch that stops mistakes from spreading
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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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