What we measured
We loaded slowboring.com 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
- 5
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 8
- Access
- 5
- Cadence
- 10
- 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 slowboring.com, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Slow Boring
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- History often hinges on boring technical questions
- Thursday discussion post
- Medicare for All should be more like Medicare
- From “Bowling Alone” to scrolling alone
- New York is building. But where?
- Abdul El-Sayed can win moderate voters
- Tuesday discussion post
- The $20 burrito tearing the Republican Party apart
- The left is winning primaries. Can it win general elections?
- A strange gifted education success story
- Sunday Thread + Mailbag
- Saturday discussion post
- Theater is weird, and that’s the point.
- In praise of commercial culture
- Thursday discussion post
Where it sits in World & Politics
- #15 Global Voices79.5
- #16 Democracy Now!78.5
- #17 Slow Boring78.5
- #18 Foreign Affairs78
- #19 Responsible Statecraft78