Site Health Report Card
“Solid locks. Paywall included.”
Pica's take. The Journal is sturdy and well locked, with thirty-nine outside scripts reading over your shoulder. It loads at a respectable pace and then asks you to subscribe. Very on-brand.
Largest paint
3.4s
Page weight
5.8 MB
Requests
190
Third-party scripts
39
Domain age
31 yrs
Blocklists
0 / 60
Timed by our own browser
Gets there, with notes.
Pica: Six megabytes. Hedged.
Run the Speed Test on wsj.comA look from the outside
Solid, with a quibble or two.
Pica: Thirty-nine outside scripts. Sources familiar with the matter.
Run the Hack Check on wsj.comWhat the internet says about it
In excellent shape.
Pica: Thirty-one years online. A century and change in print.
Run the Tracker Check on wsj.comIs it in a good neighborhood?
In excellent shape.
Pica: Akamai. Prime real estate.
Run the TTFB Check on wsj.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.