About

Signal Census is an independent publication that conducts periodic, methodology-public censuses of the web scraping and automation tool market.

The site is operated by Nicolai Lykke. Editorial methodology is published in full and versioned. All conflicts of interest are disclosed on the relevant page.

Editorial principles

• Methodology comes before scoring; both are versioned.
• Affiliate links are disclosed at point of placement.
• Own-tool reviews carry an independent reviewer and a comparator.
• Raw data and per-page change history are public.