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The New York Times

The New York Times's last score is 75.8, grade C, measured 2026-09-22. The latest weekly run could not re-score it, so it is shown outside the ranking.

Among the 30

contract score, weekly run of 2026-10-12

The New York Times on the grade scaleEvery scored site at its contract score; The New York Times is the larger dot, read out above. Sites a point or two apart stack.

Weekly run of 2026-10-12. Engine 1.3.0.

Every site's score
Contract score of every site, weekly run of 2026-10-12.
SiteRankGradeScore
Designesy1A100.0
Atlassian Design System2B89.9
GitHub Primer3B89.9
X4B87.8
Figma5B84.4
Wikipedia6B83.8
Apple7B83.1
IBM Carbon8B82.8
Roast by AI9B81.7
Vercel10B81.1
Designesy AI Studio11C74.5
Awwwards12C72.1
Linear13C70.0
Stripe14C70.0
zeroheight15C70.0
Radix Colors16C70.0
V&A Museum17C70.0
Google Stitch18D68.5
Material 319D66.4
Notion20D65.5
Adobe Spectrum21D65.1
GitHub22D65.0
Vercel Geist23D64.4
Mozaika24D64.3
IBM Plex25F56.8
Pentagram26F56.6
FWA27F54.6
The New York Times (this page)not rankedC75.8
Desy Guardnot rankedC73.4
CSS Design Awardsnot rankedF44.9

By category

batch run of 2026-10-12

Strongest in interaction at 100.0, weakest in tokens at 25.0. Above the cohort's mean in 1 of 8 categories the batch could score.

The New York Times by category, against the cohortEach bar is the site's score in one category, heaviest category first; the tick is the cohort's mean there. A dashed track is a category the engine could not score for this site.

cohort mean

Batch run of 2026-10-12. Weights are relative and sum to 117 across all 14 categories.

The numbers
The New York Times's category scores against the cohort mean, batch run of 2026-10-12.
CategoryWeightScoreCohort meanPassWarnFailSkip
Typography1858.372.63810
Accessibility1550.060.81311
Color roles12Not measured65.90000
Motion1050.067.22020
Tokens925.092.70110
Interface feel850.077.51010
Control polish775.081.71101
Page basics675.088.31100
Interaction6100.063.31000
Performance6Not measuredNot measured0000
Responsive3Not measuredNot measured0000

Reading

This week
The engine could not read nytimes.com on the last weekly run, so this is the score measured on 2026-09-22, held over.
Checks
Of the 39 checks the engine scored, 12 passed, 11 warned, 2 failed and 14 were skipped as not applicable. Checks that need a browser are left to a person and are not counted here.
Tokens
85 custom properties declared on :root, the layer the tokens category reads.
Why it is here
Seeded as a frontier reference: Editorial typography: Cadence rules origin.

Peers in Editorial

1 of 1 in the group · rank is among all 30

Editorial: 1 scored sites, by cohort rank.
RankSiteScoreBy category
not rankedThe New York Times this pagenytimes.comlast scored · could not re-scoreC75.8

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