Business & Money

The Defiant

Decentralized finance news and investigative reporting

#27
in Business & Money
71
Signal score
8 vs 8
Ad restraint vs pillar median
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Ad entities
2
Third-party domains
13
Layout shift (CLS)
0.023
Tranco rank
78,382

How it scores

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Ad restraint
8

Measured

Design
5

Judged

Reach
6

Measured

Editorial
7

Judged

Signal-to-noise
6

Judged

Access
8

Judged

Cadence
9

Judged

Independence
8

Judged

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