What we measured
We loaded theconversation.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
- 9
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 8
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 8
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 8
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Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
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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
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Latest from The Conversation (Health)
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Fiji’s HIV outbreak is a public health emergency. Pacific neighbours must step up
- Executive order on vaccines bypasses an evidence-based process that has kept kids safe
- For refugees to the US, discrimination can make healthcare harder to get
- Why Trump’s MMR vaccine order is the latest public health disaster, with effects set to last years
- Recurring risk: Like Zika, Oropouche virus can also affect the brains of unborn babies
- Why the census won’t ask about intersex variations, and the reason it should
- Should you drink Philly’s tap water?
- Air filters don’t stop you catching infectious respiratory diseases, landmark study indicates
- How vaccine skeptics use storytelling effectively to create powerful but medically inaccurate messaging
- The Benadryl Challenge isn’t going away – here’s how public health officials are trying to stop this deadly viral trend
- Six years on, why lobbying success for COVID victims’ association in Italy over pandemic mismanagement matters
- Is there really a global loneliness epidemic? Research reveals a more complex picture
- Despite claims smoking has made a comeback, just 5.6% of Australians now smoke daily
Where it sits in Health & Wellbeing
- #1 KFF Health News88
- #2 The Conversation (Health)87.5
- #3 Science-Based Medicine86.5
- #4 Greater Good Magazine84