Readers

Your readers tell you what they want.

Keep it, change it, feature it. On the homepage or the story you already have open — in words the newsroom can say out loud.

The page is the dashboard.

The newsroom opens the homepage, a section, or the story — the way they already work. How it is doing, and what would be worth doing, sit on that page. In sentences you can say out loud at the desk.

We built it to shorten the path from a number to a decision. It does not replace Analytics, an analyst, or the homepage meeting.

On the homepage

The figure sits where the editor is already looking.

Dashboards get checked in the morning and then forgotten. Newsroom decisions are taken looking at the homepage, not looking at a chart. Every piece carries a short call — Keep it, Change it, Feature it — on the story that is already open.

What to do

A task, not a chart.

Each line is something the shift can do now: rotate a slot that went cold, feature a story heating up off the homepage, share the one that is already alive. The why sits underneath. Editorial judgment rules. A suggestion can be ignored.

On the story

This article, in one card.

Today’s opens, who is reading it now, where they came from, how far they read, and how many leave. A live count, not yesterday’s report. It refreshes every few seconds while the panel is open.

More questions about Readers?

Does it replace Google Analytics and other dashboards?

No. Analytics remains the history and the business reporting. Readers lives on the shift: what is happening now and what to do on the page the editor already has open.

Does it decide the homepage for us?

No. It detects, explains, and proposes. Editorial judgment rules. A suggestion can be ignored without the system insisting.

Do we have to change the cookie banner?

No. We do not use cookies or store anything in the reader’s browser. You also count whoever rejects the banner: the figure is closer to the people who actually opened the page.

How fresh is the number?

It refreshes every few seconds while the panel is open. Today sits next to a typical same weekday, or yesterday at this hour. It is the shift, not the weekly report.

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