Site Health Report Card

espn.com

  • ESPN
  • Entertainment · Sports
  • Online since 1995
  • Checked Sep 30, 2026

“Scores load fast. Everything else goes to overtime.”

Pica's take. ESPN gets you the score quickly and then sends in the whole bench: seventy-one outside scripts and ten megabytes of highlights. Nobody wrote a content policy, and the page moves like a crowd doing the wave.

B-82 / 100

Overall health

#94 of 100 sites graded

  • Largest paint

    5.2s

  • Page weight

    10.1 MB

  • Requests

    330

  • Third-party scripts

    71

  • Domain age

    31 yrs

  • Blocklists

    0 / 60

Timed by our own browser

Site Speed

F
55

Pica is worried.

Largest paint (LCP)
5.2s
First paint (FCP)
2.4s
Server response (TTFB)
420 ms
Layout shift (CLS)
0.16
Page weight
10.1 MB
Requests
330

Pica: Ten megabytes. The game ended before the page did.

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A look from the outside

Security Check

C+
79

Gets there, with notes.

HTTPS everywhere
Yes
HSTS
Yes
TLS
1.3
Content Security Policy
Missing
Mixed content
None
Third-party scripts
71

Pica: Seventy-one outside scripts and no content policy. Crowded stands.

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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 · 60 days
Lookalike domains
Plenty

Pica: Thirty-one years of sports. Zero blocklists. Plenty of hot takes.

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Is it in a good neighborhood?

Hosting Check

A+
100

In excellent shape.

Network
Akamai · AS20940
Content delivery
Akamai
IPv6
Yes
HTTP/3
Yes
Shared-IP neighbors
Shared CDN, well kept
Flagged neighbors
0

Pica: Akamai's stadium. Good seats.

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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.