What we measured
We loaded themarkup.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
- 9
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 6
- 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 themarkup.org, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from The Markup
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Brazil gives parents social media controls for their kids. Should the US?
- Kaiser Permanente nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse
- Californians can protect their personal data with one click. Help us test if it works
- Your medical provider might be recording your mental health care visits
- The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no.
- It’s easier for Californians to escape data brokers following a Markup investigation
Where it sits in Tech & AI
- #8 Benedict Evans85
- #9 Latent Space85
- #10 The Markup85
- #11 Platformer84
- #12 Citizen Lab83.5