Index
Publishers
15 publishers carry a report card. They are grouped by the state of the card, because a publisher whose correlation cannot exist and a publisher we have too few articles for are different situations and a single ranked list would flatten them into one.
A further 7 are named at the foot of this page with no figures beside them, because no working contact route to them was found and the right of reply could not be given.
Not scored — below the article threshold
A qualifying article is one with enough priced picks, enough rated picks, and enough rate coverage for a per-article correlation to exist. This publisher has some, but fewer than the threshold. The count is shown below with the reason each article was excluded. Nothing about the correlation is shown, because the threshold is what decides whether it may be shown at all.
| Publisher | Monetization | Disclosure deficiency | Median ρ | Qualifying n | Rate coverage | Articles | Generated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgr.com | 78.1% | 0.292 | not published | — | 74.6% | 18 | 2026-09-17 |
| cnet.com | 98.2% | 0.250 | not published | — | 58.0% | 29 | 2026-09-17 |
| cyberinsider.com | 78.2% | 0.000 | not published | — | 53.1% | 6 | 2026-09-17 |
| electricteeth.com | 70.8% | 0.000 | not published | — | 94.4% | 4 | 2026-09-17 |
| nymag.com | 95.3% | 0.649 | not published | — | 70.6% | 47 | 2026-09-17 |
| nytimes.com | 84.0% | 0.250 | not published | — | 53.1% | 25 | 2026-09-17 |
| powertoolsinsider.com | 77.4% | 0.000 | not published | — | 100.0% | 4 | 2026-09-17 |
| tomsguide.com | 58.5% | 0.250 | not published | — | 59.9% | 10 | 2026-09-17 |
| top10vpn.com | 41.0% | 1.000 | not published | — | 35.6% | 7 | 2026-09-17 |
Not scored — no payout variation to correlate
This is not a data gap and must not be read as one. In every article, every pick we can price carries the SAME commission rate, and a rank correlation against a constant is undefined. More articles of the same shape would not change that. It is a fact about which merchants this publisher links to, not about how much we have collected.
| Publisher | Monetization | Disclosure deficiency | Median ρ | Qualifying n | Rate coverage | Articles | Generated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| airpurifierfirst.com | 100.0% | 0.000 | not published | — | 100.0% | 3 | 2026-09-17 |
| hostingstep.com | 100.0% | 0.000 | not published | — | 60.0% | 1 | 2026-09-17 |
| rtings.com | 100.0% | 0.000 | not published | — | 100.0% | 23 | 2026-09-17 |
| thegreatreviewer.com | 100.0% | 0.250 | not published | — | 100.0% | 6 | 2026-09-17 |
Not scored — monetization not established
No pick on this publisher carries a link we can establish is affiliate. That is a statement about what this method observed, not a statement that the publisher earns nothing: display advertising, sponsored placement paid outside an affiliate network, subscriptions and licensing are all outside what this method can see. The number of articles sampled is shown beside the claim.
| Publisher | Monetization | Disclosure deficiency | Median ρ | Qualifying n | Rate coverage | Articles | Generated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.org | 0.0% | 0.000 | not published | — | not measured | 7 | 2026-09-17 |
| standingdeskpicks.com | 0.0% | 1.000 | not published | — | not measured | 2 | 2026-09-17 |
Not published — we could not reach these publishers
Every publisher measured here is written to before anything about them is published, and the seven days run from a delivery rather than from an attempt. No working contact route was found for these, so no window opened, and a window that never opened cannot expire. Being hard to write to is not consent. We hold measurements for each of them and are not showing them.
This is our gap, not their silence, and it is not a finding about any of them.
| Publisher | Route attempted | What is published |
|---|---|---|
| adorama.com | none found | Nothing measured. The reason, as ours. |
| robovacguide.com | none found | Nothing measured. The reason, as ours. |
| safetydetectives.com | none found | Nothing measured. The reason, as ours. |
| techgearlab.com | none found | Nothing measured. The reason, as ours. |
| vacuumwars.com | site contact form | Nothing measured. The reason, as ours. |
| websiteplanet.com | site contact form | Nothing measured. The reason, as ours. |
| youtube.com | site contact form | Nothing measured. The reason, as ours. |
Reading this table
- Monetization is the share of ranked picks carrying a link established as affiliate. It is a fact about the publisher’s links and is never scored.
- Disclosure deficiency runs from 0 (grade A) to 1 (grade F) and measures only where the disclosure sits relative to the first outbound link.
- Median ρ appears only where the publisher is above the article threshold. Everywhere else it reads “not published”, which is a statement about the threshold and not about the publisher.
- Rate coverage is the measured share of this publisher’s priced picks for which a rate was available. A correlation computed on low coverage is computed on a subset, and the figure says which subset.