Site Health Report Card
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Pica's take. Substack is light and quick, with few outside scripts and a home on Cloudflare. It asks you to subscribe roughly every scroll, but the house is tidy. Pica has a newsletter too. Just saying.
Largest paint
2.2s
Page weight
2.4 MB
Requests
70
Third-party scripts
5
Domain age
9 yrs
Blocklists
0 / 60
Timed by our own browser
In excellent shape.
Pica: Two and a half megabytes. Delivered to your inbox.
Run the Speed Test on substack.comA look from the outside
In excellent shape.
Pica: Five outside scripts. Paid subscribers only.
Run the Hack Check on substack.comWhat the internet says about it
In excellent shape.
Pica: Nine years old. Everyone has one now.
Run the Tracker Check on substack.comIs it in a good neighborhood?
In excellent shape.
Pica: Cloudflare. Nice mailbox.
Run the TTFB Check on substack.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.