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
998 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 last fourteen days, story by story
Day
Filed
Stories
Oct 21Wed · today (UTC)
0
Nothing yet today. The desk files at about 10:00 UTC.
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.
158
Page views · last 90 days
19
Engaged reads
12% of views
117
Sessions
8
Returning readers
7% of sessions had been here before
22s
Average time on a page
11
Stories read to the end
20% of story views
2
Stories sent on
share bar clicks, any network
1
Reading right now
sessions active in the last 60 minutes
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.
Channel
Views
Reads
Read rate
Sessions
Time on page
direct
116
6
5%
92
22s
campaign:chatgpt.com
27
11
41%
27
—
organic
9
1
11%
9
—
ai
5
1
20%
5
—
referral
1
0
0%
1
—
Referring sites
Site
Views
Sessions
google.comhttps://www.google.com/
9
9
chatgpt.comhttps://chatgpt.com/
5
5
scriblihelp.comhttps://scriblihelp.com/
1
1
Devices
desktop
115 · 6% read
mobile
43 · 28% read
Most read, measured
Ranked by real views in the window, not by the seeded counter on the story page.
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.
Network
Shares
Sessions
x
1
1
whatsapp
1
1
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.
Block
Clicks
Sessions
nameplate
8
5
lead-title
8
8
nav-list
7
4
tag
3
1
row-title
3
3
nav-start
3
3
start-title
2
2
tool--link
1
1
rel-list
1
1
editors-note
1
1
ed-story
1
1
docref
1
1
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.