arstechnica.com
Overall Grade
SPEED
Speed Grade
Speed Test Summary
Speed Test Results
JavaScript execution took 4.9 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
The size of the document object model was 966 elements. |
Passed | 3 |
No duplicate Javascript was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
No inefficient animated content was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
The first contentful paint took 1.1 seconds. |
Passed | 3 |
The time to interactive was 8.2 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
The largest contentful paint took 1.5 seconds. |
Passed | 3 |
The largest contentful paint image was not lazily loaded. |
Passed | 3 |
Some legacy JavaScript was detected. |
Warnings | 2 |
The main thread was busy for 7.6 seconds. |
Warnings | 2 |
The first input delay was 0.3 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
Modern image formats |
Passed | 3 |
Network server latency |
Not applicable | 4 |
Usage of document.write() was detected. |
Failed | 1 |
Offscreen and hidden images were lazily loaded. |
Passed | 3 |
Preloading of optional fonts |
Not applicable | 4 |
The largest contentful paint image was not preloaded. |
Warnings | 2 |
Excessive page redirects were not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Render blocking resources were not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
The server response time was 0.2 seconds. |
Passed | 3 |
The speed index was 3.2 seconds. |
Passed | 3 |
Lazy loading of third party resources |
Not applicable | 4 |
The total blocking time was 0.7 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
The total page size was 4.5 megabytes (MB). |
Passed | 3 |
Unminified CSS was not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Some unminified JavaScript was detected. |
Warnings | 2 |
Some unused CSS rules were detected. |
Warnings | 2 |
Significant unused JavaScript was detected. |
Failed | 1 |
Optimizing images could improve performance. |
Warnings | 2 |
Preconnects to required origins |
Warnings | 2 |
Preloading of resources |
Not applicable | 4 |
Responsive images were detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Text compression was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
DESIGN
Design Grade
Design Test Summary
Design Test Results
A properly defined charset was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Background and foreground colors do not appear to have a sufficient contrast ratio. |
Failed | 1 |
The cumulative layout shift was minimal. |
Passed | 3 |
The doctype was specified. |
Passed | 3 |
Text may not remain visible during font loading. |
Failed | 1 |
Legible font sizes were detected. |
Passed | 3 |
The user's location was not requested on page load. |
Passed | 3 |
Images were displayed with the correct aspect ratio. |
Passed | 3 |
Responsive images were detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Meta refresh |
Not applicable | 4 |
Unload event listeners were detected. |
Failed | 1 |
Notification permission was not requested on page load. |
Passed | 3 |
Tap targets |
Not applicable | 4 |
Image elements have a defined width and height. |
Passed | 3 |
Passive event listeners not detected. |
Failed | 1 |
The viewport was set with width or initial-scale. |
Passed | 3 |
SECURITY
Security Grade
Security Test Summary
Security Test Results
Deprecated API calls were detected. |
Failed | 1 |
Console errors were detected. |
Failed | 1 |
No inspector issues were detected. |
Passed | 3 |
The website uses HTTPS. |
Passed | 3 |
Vulnerable JavaScript libraries were detected. |
Failed | 1 |
Password fields can be pasted into. |
Passed | 3 |
ACCESSIBILITY
Accessibility Grade
Accessibility Test Summary
Accessibility Test Results
Access key values |
Not applicable | 4 |
Definition lists |
Not applicable | 4 |
Definition list items |
Not applicable | 4 |
Attributes on focusable elements are unique. |
Passed | 3 |
ARIA IDs are unique. |
Passed | 3 |
Form field labels |
Not applicable | 4 |
Frame elements have a title. |
Passed | 3 |
Heading elements appear in a sequentially descending order. |
Passed | 3 |
The HTML element has a lang attribute. |
Passed | 3 |
The HTML element has a valid lang attribute. |
Passed | 3 |
Image button alt attributes |
Not applicable | 4 |
Form elements have associated labels. |
Passed | 3 |
Links have a discernible name. |
Passed | 3 |
Lists contain only list elements. |
Passed | 3 |
List items are contained within a parent list. |
Passed | 3 |
Zooming and scaling is allowed. |
Passed | 3 |
Object elements alternate text |
Not applicable | 4 |
No element has a tabindex value greater than 0. |
Passed | 3 |
Table headers appear to have the correct markup. |
Passed | 3 |
Table headers appear to have data cells. |
Passed | 3 |
Lang attributes |
Not applicable | 4 |
Video captions |
Not applicable | 4 |
SEARCH
Search Score
Search Test Summary
Search Test Results
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Not applicable | 4 |
Some links are not crawlable. |
Failed | 1 |
A document title was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
A valid hreflang was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
A successful HTTP status code was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
All image elements do not have alt attributes. |
Failed | 1 |
The website is crawlable. |
Passed | 3 |
Links have descriptive text. |
Passed | 3 |
A meta description was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Plugins were not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
The robots.txt is valid. |
Passed | 3 |
Structured data |
Not applicable | 4 |
SOCIAL
Social Grade
Facebook Page
A link to a Facebook Page helps visitors find and interact with a website on Facebook.

Instagram Account
A link to an Instagram Account helps visitors discover and interact with a website on Instagram.
Twitter Account
A link to a Twitter Account helps visitors discover and interact with a website on Twitter.

YouTube Channel
A YouTube Channel allows a website to share videos and interact with users on YouTube.
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Advertising Grade
Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising (formerly AMS or Amazon Marketing Services) is a service that works in a similar way to pay-per-click ads on Google.
Amazon Associates
Amazon Associates is an affiliate marketing program that allows website owners and bloggers to create links and earn referral fees when customers click through and buy products from Amazon.
DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP)
DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) is a hosted ad serving platform that streamlines your ad management.
Google Publisher Tag
Google Publisher Tag (GPT) is an ad tagging library for Google Ad Manager which is used to dynamically build ad requests.
Index Exchange
Index Exchange is a customizable exchange technology that enables sell side media firms to monetize ad inventories programmatically and in real time.
Linkedin Insight Tag
LinkedIn Insight Tag is a lightweight JavaScript tag that powers conversion tracking, website audiences, and website demographics.

Prebid
Prebid is an open-source header bidding wrapper. It forms the core of our Nucleus ad platform, helping maximize revenue and performance for publishers.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology Grade
Technology Test Results
Technology | Description | Categories | |
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Admiral | Admiral is a Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform. | Miscellaneous | |
Amazon Web Services | Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality. | PaaS | |
AWS Certificate Manager | AWS Certificate Manager is a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. | SSL/TLS certificate authorities | |
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core-js | core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features. | JavaScript libraries |
Google Tag Manager | Google Tag Manager is a tag management system (TMS) that allows you to quickly and easily update measurement codes and related code fragments collectively known as tags on your website or mobile app. | Tag managers | |
jQuery | jQuery is a JavaScript library which is a free, open-source software designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. | JavaScript libraries | |
Moat | Moat is a digital ad analytics tool. | Analytics | |
Moment.js | Moment.js is a free and open-source JavaScript library that removes the need to use the native JavaScript Date object directly. | JavaScript libraries | |
MySQL | MySQL is an open-source relational database management system. | Databases | |
Nginx | Nginx is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. | Web servers, Reverse proxies | |
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OneTrust | OneTrust is a cloud-based data privacy management compliance platform. | Cookie compliance |
PHP | PHP is a general-purpose scripting language used for web development. | Programming languages | |
WordPress | WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. | CMS, Blogs |