Download websites that use Chartbeat

Every analytics product encodes an argument about what deserves to be counted. Chartbeat counts attention. Rather than ranking pages by how many browsers loaded them, the dashboard tracks how long a reader stayed engaged, how far into the article they scrolled and how many people are on the site at this moment, which is the only view that matters when an editor has to decide what goes at the top of the homepage in the next few minutes.

Editorial urgency explains who installs it. Chartbeat has aimed at publishers since 2009, and the customer profile has stayed narrow: news organisations, magazines, broadcasters and the digital media brands that live on article traffic. A corporate marketing site has no use for a real time engagement dashboard, because nobody is standing over it at midnight rearranging the front page.

So the tag functions as a classifier. As of October 2026 we record it on 717 sites, and the population reads less like a list of Analytics users and more like a directory of publishing operations, from national newsrooms down to regional titles and niche verticals. For anyone whose research question starts with which sites are genuinely media businesses, a list built that way beats guessing from domain names or scraping an about page.

Several trades need exactly that set. Advertising and ad technology firms build supply side prospecting from publisher lists. Content licensing and syndication businesses use them to locate rights holders. Media researchers use them to size national press ecosystems in countries where no register of digital outlets exists. Competing analytics vendors use them for the obvious reason. Every one of those questions needs the whole population at once, which is precisely what a per-domain lookup cannot deliver, since you would have to know the answer in order to ask.

Detection carries two limits worth stating plainly. The script loads on the publisher's own pages, so paywalled sections, mobile applications and syndicated copies of an article hosted elsewhere fall outside what a crawl can see. And a large media group often runs the tag on some titles and not others, so a hit on one domain says nothing reliable about its sister brands. The list is best read as a set of confirmed properties rather than as a map of corporate ownership.