What we measured
We loaded thewire.co.uk 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
- 8
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 6
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 4
- Cadence
- 8
- Independence
- 9
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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
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 thewire.co.uk, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from The Wire
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
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- Below The Radar 51
- Office Ambience 511
- Jonny Greenwood: Ensemble Scoring and Skinned Themes
- Join The Wire' s Joseph Stannard in Hastings for The Invisible College
- Wire mix: Speaker Music
- Against The Grain: Discipleship at Kirana East
- Unlimited Editions: GLARC
- Misha Farrant presents Adventures In Sound And Music
- “A seamless formation of reflective surfaces”: Bibliotek: UFO reviewed
- “More than just a carrier of recorded sound”: The Wooster Group's use of vinyl
- Invisible Jukebox mix: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
- Lucy Thraves presents Adventures In Sound And Music
- The field recordist’s ear
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- #13 MUBI Notebook77.5
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- #16 Colossal76.5
- #17 Words Without Borders76.5