Public attention to shipping · Saturday 15 August 2026
The Index measures how much attention the public is paying to shipping, day by day — from what people search for, what they read up on, what the press publishes and what they post.
Each day is published once the signals report — usually by 08:30 UTC the following day. When a source is late the Index publishes without it rather than waiting, and says so above. How the timing works.
50 is normal. The average of a period without incidents.
What's driving it
Today · 15 Aug 2026Four signals, weighted. Each dial follows the day you're pointing at in the chart above. The coloured arc is that day's score and the tick marks the baseline. The dial tops out at 300.
Search 30% of the Index
180.9
Google searches — what people went looking for
Research 30% of the Index
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Not yet published by the source. This signal is excluded from today's figure rather than estimated.
Wikipedia page views — what people read up on
News 20% of the Index
83.4
Media coverage — how much the world's press published
Social 20% of the Index
92.2
X and Bluesky — what people posted about
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