The question
Does the commission rate predict the ranking?
Product-review publishers earn a commission on the products they rank. Readers cannot see the rates. This site publishes the rate, the rank, the correlation between them, the confidence interval, the sample size, the formula and the date — and leaves the conclusion to the reader.
Three numbers, never combined
A report card carries three figures that answer three different questions. They are kept apart on every card because folding any one into another would state something none of them says.
Do they get paid?
Monetization exposureThe share of ranked picks carrying a link established as affiliate. A fact. Never scored, never graded, and being monetized is not itself a finding.
Do they tell you?
Disclosure gradeWhere the disclosure sits relative to the first affiliate link. Carries independent legal force under 16 CFR 255 and is never folded into any other figure.
Does the pay change the picks?
Payout–Rank correlationSpearman ρ between commission rate and rank position, per article, summarised across a publisher. Published only with its interval, its sample size and its rate coverage.
What is published today
Most publishers here are below the publication threshold, and their cards say so in the place a score would otherwise be. Three separate situations produce a card with no correlation on it, and each renders as its own state rather than as a blank:
- Not scored — below the article threshold. Fewer qualifying articles than SPEC §2.2 requires. The count of qualifying articles and the reason each other article was excluded are both shown.
- Not scored — no payout variation to correlate. Every priceable pick carries the same rate. More articles would not change it.
- Not scored — monetization not established. No affiliate mechanism was established on this publisher’s picks. This method sees affiliate links and nothing else.
Publishers
| Publisher | State | Monetization | Articles |
|---|---|---|---|
| airpurifierfirst.com | Not scored — no payout variation to correlate | 100.0% | 3 |
| bgr.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 78.1% | 18 |
| cnet.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 98.2% | 29 |
| cyberinsider.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 78.2% | 6 |
| electricteeth.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 70.8% | 4 |
| hostingstep.com | Not scored — no payout variation to correlate | 100.0% | 1 |
| nymag.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 95.3% | 47 |
| nytimes.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 84.0% | 25 |
| powertoolsinsider.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 77.4% | 4 |
| rtings.com | Not scored — no payout variation to correlate | 100.0% | 23 |
| security.org | Not scored — monetization not established | 0.0% | 7 |
| standingdeskpicks.com | Not scored — monetization not established | 0.0% | 2 |
| thegreatreviewer.com | Not scored — no payout variation to correlate | 100.0% | 6 |
| tomsguide.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 58.5% | 10 |
| top10vpn.com | Not scored — below the article threshold | 41.0% | 7 |
| adorama.com | Not published — we could not reach them | withheld | withheld |
| robovacguide.com | Not published — we could not reach them | withheld | withheld |
| safetydetectives.com | Not published — we could not reach them | withheld | withheld |
| techgearlab.com | Not published — we could not reach them | withheld | withheld |
| vacuumwars.com | Not published — we could not reach them | withheld | withheld |
| websiteplanet.com | Not published — we could not reach them | withheld | withheld |
| youtube.com | Not published — we could not reach them | withheld | withheld |
7 publishers carry no figures at all. Every publisher measured here is written to before anything about them is published, and no working contact route was found for these. Being hard to write to is not consent, so their measurements stay unpublished and their pages say that we could not reach them — as our gap, not their silence. If you publish on one of those sites, the crawler page has the address to write to.
What this site will not do
- It never modifies, replaces, strips or fires an outbound link. Detection is given away; participation is not on offer at any price.
- It publishes no rate without the URL it was read from and the date it was read. A rate without provenance is not published at all.
- It applies no adjective to a publisher. The inputs, the formula and the date are published so the figure can be checked and disputed.
- It receives no browsing history, because it has no server to receive one.