RuntimeWire launches a live dashboard with auditable readership metrics
The live page shows how we define reads, subscribers and press mentions, including the data we deliberately exclude.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Why it matters
Traffic claims are easy to inflate and difficult to compare. Publishing definitions, exclusions and failure states gives readers a way to judge the measurement itself.

A public metric you cannot audit is marketing. Today, I opened RuntimeWire's live transparency dashboard so readers can inspect how this publication measures readership, subscribers, story performance and outside citations.…
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