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Readership & Editions

Did the overnight desk file, and is anyone reading. Measured from the live database, not typed.

The overnight desk

An agent files at 06:00 New York time (about 10:00 UTC), commissions three stories against the AP wire, and publishes only if every check on the desk is green. On red, nothing ships and the day shows as zero here. Times of day are Ithaca time; the calendar day of an edition is UTC.

September 9, 2026 at 6:40 AM ET
Last story filed
997 hours ago
0
Stories in the last 7 days
0 of 7 days had an edition
0
Stories in the last 30 days
0 of 30 days had an edition
383
Stories in the archive
the brief: three a day 2026-09-21: 0 stories2026-09-22: 0 stories2026-09-23: 0 stories2026-09-24: 0 stories2026-09-25: 0 stories2026-09-26: 0 stories2026-09-27: 0 stories2026-09-28: 0 stories2026-09-29: 0 stories2026-09-30: 0 stories2026-10-01: 0 stories2026-10-02: 0 stories2026-10-03: 0 stories2026-10-04: 0 stories2026-10-05: 0 stories2026-10-06: 0 stories2026-10-07: 0 stories2026-10-08: 0 stories2026-10-09: 0 stories2026-10-10: 0 stories2026-10-11: 0 stories2026-10-12: 0 stories2026-10-13: 0 stories2026-10-14: 0 stories2026-10-15: 0 stories2026-10-16: 0 stories2026-10-17: 0 stories2026-10-18: 0 stories2026-10-19: 0 stories2026-10-20: 0 stories Sep 21 Oct 20 · today (UTC)

The last fourteen days, story by story

DayFiledStories
Oct 20Tue · today (UTC)0No stories filed.
Oct 19Mon0No stories filed.
Oct 18Sun0No stories filed.
Oct 17Sat0No stories filed.
Oct 16Fri0No stories filed.
Oct 15Thu0No stories filed.
Oct 14Wed0No stories filed.
Oct 13Tue0No stories filed.
Oct 12Mon0No stories filed.
Oct 11Sun0No stories filed.
Oct 10Sat0No stories filed.
Oct 9Fri0No stories filed.
Oct 8Thu0No stories filed.
Oct 7Wed0No stories filed.

The full archive, by desk →

Readers

The "readers" figure printed on every story was seeded for the fiction and is bumped by every non-bot request, including our own checks. It is not used here. What follows counts only browsers that ran the paper's own script, measured since September 8, 2026. No cookie is set; no IP address or full user-agent is kept.

99
Page views · last 30 days
▲ 71% vs the period before
16
Engaged reads
16% of views
▲ 433% vs the period before
73
Sessions
▲ 70% vs the period before
5
Returning readers
7% of sessions had been here before
23s
Average time on a page
9
Stories read to the end
24% of story views
0
Stories sent on
share bar clicks, any network
▼ 100% vs the period before
0
Reading right now
sessions active in the last 60 minutes
peak 20 views in a day 2026-09-21: 8 views2026-09-21: 2 engaged reads2026-09-22: 3 views2026-09-22: 0 engaged reads2026-09-23: 2 views2026-09-23: 2 engaged reads2026-09-24: 7 views2026-09-24: 0 engaged reads2026-09-25: 4 views2026-09-25: 2 engaged reads2026-09-26: 7 views2026-09-26: 0 engaged reads2026-09-27: 2 views2026-09-27: 1 engaged reads2026-09-28: 3 views2026-09-28: 0 engaged reads2026-09-29: 1 views2026-09-29: 0 engaged reads2026-09-30: 1 views2026-09-30: 0 engaged reads2026-10-01: 7 views2026-10-01: 2 engaged reads2026-10-02: 2 views2026-10-02: 0 engaged reads2026-10-03: 4 views2026-10-03: 1 engaged reads2026-10-04: 0 views2026-10-04: 0 engaged reads2026-10-05: 1 views2026-10-05: 0 engaged reads2026-10-06: 2 views2026-10-06: 0 engaged reads2026-10-07: 2 views2026-10-07: 0 engaged reads2026-10-08: 1 views2026-10-08: 0 engaged reads2026-10-09: 3 views2026-10-09: 0 engaged reads2026-10-10: 0 views2026-10-10: 0 engaged reads2026-10-11: 1 views2026-10-11: 0 engaged reads2026-10-12: 2 views2026-10-12: 0 engaged reads2026-10-13: 12 views2026-10-13: 1 engaged reads2026-10-14: 0 views2026-10-14: 0 engaged reads2026-10-15: 2 views2026-10-15: 0 engaged reads2026-10-16: 0 views2026-10-16: 0 engaged reads2026-10-17: 2 views2026-10-17: 1 engaged reads2026-10-18: 0 views2026-10-18: 0 engaged reads2026-10-19: 20 views2026-10-19: 4 engaged reads2026-10-20: 0 views2026-10-20: 0 engaged reads Sep 21 Oct 20

engaged reads (45 s on the page, or three-quarters of the way down a story) · views

Where readers come from

Volume is not attention. A channel with many views and a low read rate is sending people who leave.

ChannelViewsReadsRead rateSessionsTime on page
direct6558%5123s
campaign:chatgpt.com241042%24—
organic500%5—
ai4125%4—
referral100%1—

Referring sites

SiteViewsSessions
google.comhttps://www.google.com/55
chatgpt.comhttps://chatgpt.com/33
scriblihelp.comhttps://scriblihelp.com/11

Devices

desktop
68 · 7% read
mobile
31 · 35% read

Most read, measured

Ranked by real views in the window, not by the seeded counter on the story page.

  1. A Camera Went Down 611 Metres Under Khafre. It Came Back With Stairs.Deep History · published August 9, 2026 · 6 views · 2 reads (33%) · 20s on the page
  2. Fifty-One Seconds, Nobody In Frame: The Barley Went Down In Three Places At Once.Suppressed Science · published September 4, 2026 · 4 views · 4 reads (100%)
  3. Half The Traffic Was Not PeopleThe Signal · published August 2, 2026 · 4 views · 0 reads (0%)
  4. There Is A Railway Station Under Denver AirportThe Republic · published August 6, 2026 · 3 views · 3 reads (100%) · 94s on the page
  5. Berlin Blamed A Russian Drone. It Climbed 20km In 11 Seconds.Off-World · published September 8, 2026 · 2 views · 0 reads (0%)
  6. Six Hundred Hours On The Riverbank. Forty Seconds Of Something.Cryptids · published July 26, 2026 · 2 views · 0 reads (0%)
  7. We Believe Cathy O'Brien. Here Is The Ledger That Says So.The Body · published August 24, 2026 · 1 views · 1 reads (100%)
  8. Twenty-One Experiments Walked A Statue. The Longest Went One Hundred Metres.Deep History · published August 20, 2026 · 1 views · 1 reads (100%)
  9. The Brotherhood Says It Runs On Dues. It Runs On £2.1m Of Rent.Shadow Governance · published August 24, 2026 · 1 views · 1 reads (100%) · 6s on the page
  10. We Bought 41 Flight Lines. Two Teams Reprocessed Them Blind. Both Found A Ceiling.Deep History · published August 24, 2026 · 1 views · 0 reads (0%) · 15s on the page
  11. They Do Modify The Weather. Nobody Can Prove By How Much.The Sky Desk · published August 9, 2026 · 1 views · 0 reads (0%)
  12. The Air Force Forged The Dulce Papers. The Floors Are Still There.Off-World · published August 9, 2026 · 1 views · 0 reads (0%) · 5s on the page

By desk

DeskStories openedViewsReadsRead rate
Deep History712325%
Suppressed Science144100%
The Signal1400%
Off-World3400%
Cryptids3400%
The Republic133100%
Money & Mechanisms2200%
The Body22150%
The Sky Desk1100%
Shadow Governance111100%

Pages other than stories

PageViewsSessionsTime on page
/323014s
/about4427s
/topic/ancient-aliens4443s
/puzzles33—
/right-of-reply3316s
/start-here2215s
/topic/chemtrails22—
/topic/ufo2252s
/vault/PX-1402225s
/**11—
/author/perpetua-nkemelu112s
/comics11—

Shares, by network

Every story carries a share bar. This is where readers sent them: "copy" is the link copied to the clipboard, "native" the phone's own share sheet.

Nobody has sent a story on yet in this window.

What earns the next click

Each internal link a reader follows is tagged with the block of the page it sat in. A block that appears on every page and earns three clicks is a different problem from one that appears twice and earns two.

BlockClicksSessions
nav-list74
nameplate74
tag31
start-title22
row-title22
nav-start22
lead-title22
rel-list11
editors-note11
docref11

Method

A view is one page load in a browser that ran the paper's script; crawlers and command-line tools are dropped at the server. An engaged read is forty-five seconds of foreground time on a page, or three-quarters of the way down a story. A completion is the bottom of a story. Time on page counts only the time the tab was in front, between two seconds and thirty minutes. A session is one browser tab; the id lives in sessionStorage and is gone when the tab closes. Channels are inferred from the referrer and any utm_source. The same figures are available as JSON at /api/analytics.