Site Health Report Card
“All the news that fits in six megabytes.”
Pica's take. The Times is well built and well locked, with more outside scripts than a newspaper strictly needs. It loads at a respectable pace. The crossword loads faster, which tells you where the priorities are.
Largest paint
3.4s
Page weight
6.1 MB
Requests
190
Third-party scripts
38
Domain age
32 yrs
Blocklists
0 / 60
Timed by our own browser
Gets there, with notes.
Pica: Six megabytes. The Sunday paper weighs more. Barely.
Run the Speed Test on nytimes.comA look from the outside
Solid, with a quibble or two.
Pica: Thirty-eight outside scripts. The paywall is sturdier than some locks.
Run the Hack Check on nytimes.comWhat the internet says about it
In excellent shape.
Pica: Thirty-two years online, a century and a half in print.
Run the Tracker Check on nytimes.comIs it in a good neighborhood?
In excellent shape.
Pica: Fastly, in a good building with good neighbors.
Run the TTFB Check on nytimes.comPica runs these checks on your site every day, and only writes when a grade slips. $11.11 a month for 50 sites.
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.