Site Health Report Card

youtube.com

  • YouTube
  • Video · Rabbit holes
  • Online since 2005
  • Checked Sep 30, 2026

“The page is fine. The autoplay is a lifestyle.”

Pica's take. YouTube opens quickly and then keeps opening, like a nesting doll made of video players. Security is Google-grade and the neighborhood is family. The weight is mostly the thing you came for, so I will allow it, grudgingly, at minute forty of a video about bread.

A93 / 100

Overall health

#34 of 100 sites graded

  • Largest paint

    2.9s

  • Page weight

    5.2 MB

  • Requests

    140

  • Third-party scripts

    3

  • Domain age

    21 yrs

  • Blocklists

    0 / 60

Timed by our own browser

Site Speed

B-
80

Solid, with a quibble or two.

Largest paint (LCP)
2.9s
First paint (FCP)
1.5s
Server response (TTFB)
240 ms
Layout shift (CLS)
0.08
Page weight
5.2 MB
Requests
140

Pica: Five megabytes before the first ad. Then more ads.

Run the Speed Test on youtube.com

A look from the outside

Security Check

A
95

In excellent shape.

HTTPS everywhere
Yes
HSTS
Preloaded
TLS
1.3
Content Security Policy
Partial
Mixed content
None
Third-party scripts
3

Pica: Locks borrowed from its parent. Very good locks.

Run the Hack Check on youtube.com

What the internet says about it

Reputation Check

A
95

In excellent shape.

Domain age
21 years
Blocklists
0 of 60
Malware reports
None
Email authentication
DMARC reject
Certificate
Valid · 58 days
Lookalike domains
Plenty

Pica: Twenty-one years old and still asks if you are still watching.

Run the Tracker Check on youtube.com

Is it in a good neighborhood?

Hosting Check

A+
100

In excellent shape.

Network
Google · AS15169
Content delivery
Google edge
IPv6
Yes
HTTP/3
Yes
Shared-IP neighbors
Google properties
Flagged neighbors
0

Pica: Lives in the Google compound. Gets the good parking.

Run the TTFB Check on youtube.com

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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.