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Stories ranked by recorded reader visits over the last seven calendar days (UTC).
There is not enough recorded reader activity to show a meaningful ranking yet.
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We count activity only from browsers that accept optional reading statistics, after a reader interacts with a chapter. Repeated visits from the same browser to the same story count once per day. A story needs at least three recorded reading visits in the current period to enter a ranking. These are browser signals, not a count of identifiable people.
Completion requires an end-of-chapter signal for every chapter within the retained 35-day window. Audio completion requires at least 90% of a recording played on the chapter page. Known bots and signed-in publisher previews on the central website are excluded. Latest stories are never substituted for popularity.
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