The Most Popular Slate Stories of 2017

Slate has published more than 11,000 articles in 2017. Determining the 10 most popular wasn’t easy. When we do this roundup every year, we inevitably debate the same question: What’s the best way to determine popularity? We measure our traffic in many ways. We look at how many visitors and page views each story gets and how readers are finding our stories (Facebook or Google? Twitter or our home page?). But the main metric we look at these days is engaged time. Just clicking to a story doesn’t mean quite as much as it used to. We’re more concerned with what stories keep your attention. Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2017-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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