What we measured
We loaded techcrunch.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
- 4
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 9
- Editorial
- 6
- Signal-to-noise
- 5
- Access
- 8
- Cadence
- 10
- Independence
- 3
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 techcrunch.com, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from TechCrunch
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze
- Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
- Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
- Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
- Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
- Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct
- US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware
- Uber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europe
- Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup
- Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
- If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously
- Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
- Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.
- OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed
- IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push
Where it sits in Business & Money
- #37 Fortune69
- #38 McKinsey Insights69
- #39 TechCrunch65.5
- #40 CNBC64.5
- #41 MarketWatch – Top Stories62.5