MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
Ars Technica — Modern Reference
arstechnica.com · Tech News
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.
B·80
B · 80
Open-web; technical depth = strong LLM corpus presence in tech queries.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Tech-vertical densityFrequently cited by ChatGPT/Claude for technical history + analysis.
Global rank
#78 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#2 of 11
Among tech news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 74
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
+6 above category