medium.com
The website medium.com was graded on February 2nd, 2023 for speed, design, security, accessibility, search, social, advertising and technology.
Overall Grade
medium.com achieved an overall grade of 52 out of 100 based on 121 website tests and scanning for over 3,000 website technologies
SPEED
A slow website reflects poorly on any business with the majority of people expecting a page to load in less than two seconds and Google now taking website speed into account for search result rankings.
Speed Grade
medium.com achieved a speed grade of 70 out of 100 based on 33 speed tests
Speed Test Summary
Failed: 7
Warnings: 1
Passed: 19
Not Applicable: 6
Speed Test Results
JavaScript execution took 12.3 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
The size of the document object model was 852 elements. |
Passed | 3 |
No duplicate Javascript was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
No inefficient animated content was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
The first contentful paint took 1.9 seconds. |
Warnings | 2 |
The time to interactive was 14.7 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
The largest contentful paint took 2.3 seconds. |
Passed | 3 |
Lazy loading of the largest contentful paint image |
Not applicable | 4 |
No legacy JavaScript was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
The main thread was busy for 14.5 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
The first input delay was 2.8 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
Modern image formats |
Passed | 3 |
Network server latency |
Not applicable | 4 |
Usage of document.write() was not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Offscreen and hidden images were lazily loaded. |
Passed | 3 |
Preloading of optional fonts |
Not applicable | 4 |
The largest contentful paint image was preloaded. |
Passed | 3 |
Excessive page redirects were not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Render blocking resources |
Not applicable | 4 |
The server response time was 0.1 seconds. |
Passed | 3 |
The speed index was 6 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
Lazy loading of third party resources |
Not applicable | 4 |
The total blocking time was 9 seconds. |
Failed | 1 |
The total page size was 1 megabytes (MB). |
Passed | 3 |
Unminified CSS was not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Unminified JavaScript was not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Unused CSS rules were not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Significant unused JavaScript was detected. |
Failed | 1 |
Images are optimized. |
Passed | 3 |
Preconnects to required origins were detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Preloading of resources |
Not applicable | 4 |
Responsive images were detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Text compression was detected. |
Passed | 3 |
DESIGN
You have 2.7 seconds to grab the attention of your target audience. The best websites achieve this with a unique brand identity, strong visuals, and a clear message.
Design Grade
medium.com achieved a design grade of 84 out of 100 based on 16 design tests
Design Test Summary
Failed: 2
Warnings: 0
Passed: 11
Not Applicable: 3
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 |
Cumulative layout shift |
Not applicable | 4 |
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 not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
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 detected. |
Passed | 3 |
The viewport was set with width or initial-scale. |
Passed | 3 |
SECURITY
A secure website protects both visitors and the website owner from hackers and cyber criminals who are continuously scanning for weak websites to attack.
Security Grade
medium.com achieved a security grade of 66 out of 100 based on 6 security tests
Security Test Summary
Failed: 2
Warnings: 0
Passed: 4
Not Applicable: 0
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 not detected. |
Passed | 3 |
Password fields can be pasted into. |
Passed | 3 |
ACCESSIBILITY
Many websites are developed with accessibility barriers that make them difficult or even impossible for visually impaired and other disabled visitors to use.
Accessibility Grade
medium.com achieved a accessibility grade of 58 out of 100 based on 38 accessibility tests
Accessibility Test Summary
Failed: 5
Warnings: 0
Passed: 7
Not Applicable: 26
Accessibility Test Results
Access key values |
Not applicable | 4 |
Definition lists |
Not applicable | 4 |
Definition list items |
Not applicable | 4 |
Unique focusable elements |
Not applicable | 4 |
Unique ARIA IDs |
Not applicable | 4 |
Form field labels |
Not applicable | 4 |
Frame element titles |
Not applicable | 4 |
Heading elements do not appear in a sequentially descending order. |
Failed | 1 |
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 element labels |
Not applicable | 4 |
Some links do not have a discernible name. |
Failed | 1 |
List elements |
Not applicable | 4 |
List items |
Not applicable | 4 |
Zooming and scaling is not allowed. |
Failed | 1 |
Object elements alternate text |
Not applicable | 4 |
Tabindex values |
Not applicable | 4 |
Table headers markup |
Not applicable | 4 |
Table header data cells |
Not applicable | 4 |
Lang attributes |
Not applicable | 4 |
Video captions |
Not applicable | 4 |
SEARCH
People search on Google every day to help them find whatever they are looking for, but are you doing the rights things to encourage Google to display your website in search results ahead of your competitors?
Search Score
medium.com achieved a search grade of 100 out of 100 based on 12 search tests
Search Test Summary
Failed: 0
Warnings: 0
Passed: 11
Not Applicable: 1
Search Test Results
Canonical links appear to be valid. |
Passed | 3 |
All links are crawlable. |
Passed | 3 |
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 have alt attributes. |
Passed | 3 |
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
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Advertising Grade
medium.com achieved an advertising grade of 0 out of 100 based on over 200 advertising factors
TECHNOLOGY
Choosing the right technology to power your website can often mean the difference between staying one step ahead of your competition or falling behind in the race to engage with customers online.
Technology Grade
medium.com achieved a technology grade of 39 out of 100 based on scanning for over 3,000 website technologies
Technology Test Results
Technology | Description | Categories | |
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Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services. | CDN | |
Cloudflare Browser Insights | Cloudflare Browser Insights is a tool tool that measures the performance of websites from the perspective of users. | Analytics, RUM | |
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Envoy | Envoy is an open-source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. | Reverse proxies |
HSTS | HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS. | Security | |
HTTP/3 | HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the World Wide Web. | Miscellaneous | |
LottieFiles | LottieFiles is an open-source animation file format that's tiny, high quality, interactive, and can be manipulated at runtime. | Miscellaneous | |
Medium | Medium is an online publishing platform. | Blogs | |
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Module Federation | Module Federation is a webpack technology for dynamically loading parts of other independently deployed builds. | Miscellaneous |
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Node.js | Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. | Programming languages |
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Open Graph | Open Graph is a protocol that is used to integrate any web page into the social graph. | Miscellaneous |
reCAPTCHA | reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse. | Security | |
web-vitals | The web-vitals JavaScript is a tiny, modular library for measuring all the web vitals metrics on real users. | JavaScript libraries, RUM | |
webpack | Webpack is an open-source JavaScript module bundler. | Miscellaneous |