Ars Technica

As of January 14, 2025
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    Econiscore
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    A Grade: Your peer percentile is outstanding, equal to or exceeding 80%.
    B Grade: Your peer percentile is above average, ranging between 60% to 79%.
    C Grade: Your peer percentile is average, with a score between 40% and 59%.
    D Grade: Your peer percentile is below average, falling between 20% and 39%.
    F Grade: Your peer percentile is significantly below average, below 20%.

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Key Metrics

The essential markers all sites should work on

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Accessibility
93%
Best Practices
57%
SEO
92%
Web Vitals
Score
Largest Contentful Paint
1.32
Interaction To Next Paint
0.14
Cumulative Layout Shift
0.03
First Contentful Paint
1.24
First Input Delay
Time To First Byte
0.67
Lighthouse
Score
First Contentful Paint
5
Speed Index
13.9
Largest Contentful Paint
14.7
Total Blocking Time
2.1
Time to First Byte
0.1
Cumulative Layout Shift
0.03

Influential Vendors

The most impactful 3rd party packages

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VENDOR
MAIN THREAD
BLOCKING
TRANSFER SIZE
Google/Doubleclick Ads
Main Thread:
1660ms
Blocking:
410ms
Transfer Size:
604.17kB
Google Tag Manager
Main Thread:
819ms
Blocking:
364ms
Transfer Size:
446.81kB
Wunderkind
Main Thread:
654ms
Blocking:
255ms
Transfer Size:
295.70kB
conde.digital
Main Thread:
612ms
Blocking:
145ms
Transfer Size:
181.59kB
arstechnica.net
Main Thread:
303ms
Blocking:
132ms
Transfer Size:
1.00MB
Facebook
Main Thread:
239ms
Blocking:
132ms
Transfer Size:
170.18kB
96 additional vendors which combined compose <3.6% impact

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Profile

Owner

Condé Nast

Website

https://arstechnica.com/

Founded

1998

Category

News & Broadcast Media

Description

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games.

Headquarters

New York, NY, U.S.

Profile Source

Wikipedia