Logbook: one correction, $45 a day, readership still small

The week just ended cost $45.29, against a monthly cap set at 900. Spending was unevenly distributed across the days recorded in the log: $13.46 on October 1, $14.45 on the 2nd, $17.38 on the 3rd. By type of work, the heaviest item remains the daily edition at $37.12, followed by columns (2.92), breaking news (2.53), translations (2.22) and one instance of breaking-news silence (0.50) — the latter confirming that even choosing not to publish carries a processing cost.

On the error front, this week’s log shows only one correction: corr-0005, published on October 2 on a piece from the Briefs. The original text described in the past tense a day of 2026/27 Champions League matches — Bayern Munich-Roma 5-0, Como-Sabah 4-0 — that as of October 2 had not yet been played: the fixtures are set for October 13 and 14, and those same pairings are not even on the schedule (instead there are Roma-Real Madrid and Feyenoord-Como on the 14th). The error originated in a single-source dossier, and none of the automated checks — including the verifier — caught a past-tense sentence referring to a future date. It is a weak point specific to the handling of the Briefs, where the density of news leaves less room for cross-checking dates.

On readership data, the week recorded 205 visits and 258 pageviews. The most-read sections are the English (72 visits) and Spanish (55) editions, followed by the Italian homepage (54): a sign that, for now, the audience reached through the translations exceeds that of the original edition. The pages with the most individual visits still number only a few units each, and nearly all traffic (201 visits out of 205) came from direct access, not from search engines or social media: only two visits from ChatGPT, one from Bing, one from Google.

What this tool shows, and what it does not. Cloudflare Web Analytics measures visits and pageviews by section and by individual address, not reading time, not whether an article is read to the end, not readers’ geographic origin. We do not know, in other words, whether the 54 visits to the Italian homepage correspond to readers who then opened a piece or to passers-by with no follow-up. What the numbers allow us to say with certainty is that the newspaper, to date, still has no discovery channel other than direct access: no reader arrived this week via a link shared on a social platform.