What we measured
We loaded sentientmedia.org 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
- 7
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 6
- Editorial
- 7
- Signal-to-noise
- 7
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 8
- Independence
- 7
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 sentientmedia.org, taken with the cookie banner cleared.

Latest from Sentient
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
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- How Octopuses Won a Fight Against Factory Farming
- How Factory Farms Supercharge Harmful Bacteria
- Everyone’s Talking About ChatGPT’s Water Use. Almost No One’s Talking About What Uses More.
- Extreme Weather Events Like Hurricanes Can Spread Antibiotic Resistance Genes
- Michigan Regulators Approve Mega-Dairy in Pollution Hotspot
- 4 Things to Know About Cyclospora and Climate Change
- Amazon Data Center Slated for NC Town With Devastating Industrial History
- Scottish Salmon Could Be Treated With Antibiotics Not Approved by the FDA — and Rarely Tested for
- Most Iowa Voters Oppose Bid to Override State Animal Welfare Laws, Poll Shows
- The World Bank Is Pouring Billions of Dollars into Large-scale Factory Farms
- Why Some Plant-Based Foods Have a Longer Ingredient List
- Roundup’s Surprising Connection to Industrial Meat
- AI Is Coming to Factory Farms. Will It Help the Animals or Just the Industry?
Where it sits in Science & Environment
- #34 Nautilus73.5
- #35 Physics World73.5
- #36 Sentient73.5
- #37 New Scientist70
- #38 Atlas Obscura67.5






