Site Health Report Card

cnn.com

  • CNN
  • News · Breaking
  • Online since 1995
  • Checked Sep 30, 2026

“Breaking news. Breaking load times.”

Pica's take. CNN loads the way a newsroom works: fast headlines, then everything else at once. Sixty-four outside scripts pitch in and the page jumps as the ads arrive. The building is secure. The lobby is chaos.

B84 / 100

Overall health

#85 of 100 sites graded

  • Largest paint

    4.9s

  • Page weight

    9.4 MB

  • Requests

    310

  • Third-party scripts

    64

  • Domain age

    31 yrs

  • Blocklists

    0 / 60

Timed by our own browser

Site Speed

F
55

Pica is worried.

Largest paint (LCP)
4.9s
First paint (FCP)
2.1s
Server response (TTFB)
390 ms
Layout shift (CLS)
0.18
Page weight
9.4 MB
Requests
310

Pica: Nine megabytes. The headline was fast. The rest is still filing.

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A look from the outside

Security Check

B
85

Solid, with a quibble or two.

HTTPS everywhere
Yes
HSTS
Preloaded
TLS
1.3
Content Security Policy
Partial
Mixed content
None
Third-party scripts
64

Pica: Sixty-four outside scripts. A full press pool.

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What the internet says about it

Reputation Check

A
95

In excellent shape.

Domain age
31 years
Blocklists
0 of 60
Malware reports
None
Email authentication
DMARC reject
Certificate
Valid · 70 days
Lookalike domains
Plenty

Pica: Thirty-one years on the beat.

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Is it in a good neighborhood?

Hosting Check

A+
100

In excellent shape.

Network
Fastly · AS54113
Content delivery
Fastly
IPv6
Yes
HTTP/3
Yes
Shared-IP neighbors
Shared CDN, well kept
Flagged neighbors
0

Pica: Rents on Fastly. Good address.

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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.