Site Health Report Card
“Well reported. Heavily scripted.”
Pica's take. The Post is well built and well locked, with forty-five outside scripts in the newsroom. It loads at a steady pace. The crossword, again, is faster.
Largest paint
3.9s
Page weight
6.9 MB
Requests
230
Third-party scripts
45
Domain age
30 yrs
Blocklists
0 / 60
Timed by our own browser
Gets there, with notes.
Pica: Seven megabytes. Still filing.
Run the Speed Test on washingtonpost.comA look from the outside
Solid, with a quibble or two.
Pica: Forty-five outside scripts. Anonymous sources, presumably.
Run the Hack Check on washingtonpost.comWhat the internet says about it
In excellent shape.
Pica: Thirty years online. Clean record.
Run the Tracker Check on washingtonpost.comIs it in a good neighborhood?
In excellent shape.
Pica: Akamai. Good address.
Run the TTFB Check on washingtonpost.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.