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The average for the top 100 news sites: 47. (The STLtoday.com homepage also includes a miserable 441 separate requests, 6.1 megabytes of data, and a load time of 18 seconds on a fast connection — terrible all around.) —JB
Benton, Joshua. "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch website uses 168 (!) unique third-party trackers." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 30 Mar. 2015. Web. 1 Apr. 2025.
APA
Benton, J. (2015, Mar. 30). The St. Louis Post-Dispatch website uses 168 (!) unique third-party trackers. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 1, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/the-st-louis-post-dispatch-website-uses-168-unique-third-party-trackers/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch website uses 168 (!) unique third-party trackers." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 30, 2015. Accessed April 1, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/the-st-louis-post-dispatch-website-uses-168-unique-third-party-trackers/.
Wikipedia
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