Site Health Report Card

archive.org

  • Internet Archive
  • Reference · Library
  • Online since 1996
  • Checked Sep 30, 2026

“Remembers everything. Takes a second to recall.”

Pica's take. The Internet Archive runs on its own servers with no outside scripts, which is noble and a little slow at the front desk. The page is light; the librarian is thinking. It has saved more of the internet than anyone. Patience is a fair price.

A-92 / 100

Overall health

#51 of 100 sites graded

  • Largest paint

    3.3s

  • Page weight

    2.7 MB

  • Requests

    60

  • Third-party scripts

    0

  • Domain age

    30 yrs

  • Blocklists

    0 / 60

Timed by our own browser

Site Speed

B
86

Solid, with a quibble or two.

Largest paint (LCP)
3.3s
First paint (FCP)
1.4s
Server response (TTFB)
620 ms
Layout shift (CLS)
0.04
Page weight
2.7 MB
Requests
60

Pica: Six hundred milliseconds to say hello. It was looking something up.

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A look from the outside

Security Check

A
95

In excellent shape.

HTTPS everywhere
Yes
HSTS
Yes
TLS
1.3
Content Security Policy
Partial
Mixed content
None
Third-party scripts
0

Pica: Zero outside scripts. Library rules.

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What the internet says about it

Reputation Check

A-
91

In excellent shape.

Domain age
30 years
Blocklists
0 of 60
Malware reports
None
Email authentication
DMARC quarantine
Certificate
Valid · 90 days
Lookalike domains
Some

Pica: Thirty years old. Has a copy of your first website. Sorry.

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Is it in a good neighborhood?

Hosting Check

A
95

In excellent shape.

Network
Internet Archive · AS7941
Content delivery
Own servers
IPv6
Yes
HTTP/3
No
Shared-IP neighbors
Internet Archive properties
Flagged neighbors
0

Pica: Own servers in its own building. A very good librarian.

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How we grade. Four checks, weighted equally: speed timed by our own browser, a security look from the outside, public reputation signals, and the network the site lives on. A look from the outside is not a server audit.