Performance

· 15 checks — Lighthouse + waterfall + sustainability rolled into one auditable list.

SCORE

GRADE

FIX

REVIEW

PASS

INFO

Performance-focused optimization plan with CWV assessment, top offenders, and time estimates

Mobile Desktop

Performance

Accessibility

100

Best Practices

SEO

First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.

337 ms

Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.

1.40 s

Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.

37 ms

Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.

0.000

Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.

515 ms

Time to Interactive Time to Interactive — how long until the page is fully interactive and responds to user input. Under 3.8s is good.

1.76 s

Page Load Progression

375 ms

750 ms

1.1 s

1.5 s

1.9 s

2.2 s

2.6 s

3.0 s

Checks

8 PASS 5 REVIEW

Page Weight Budget

1.5 MB transferred, 44 requests

REVIEW

1.5 MB transferred, 44 requests

Page weighs 2.5 MB (1.5 MB transferred)

44 HTTP requests

Estimated 0.32 g CO2 per page load

1.5 MB transferred

44 requests

0.32 g CO2 per page load

Images 1019.7 KiB 66%

JavaScript 352.0 KiB 23%

Fonts 115.0 KiB 7%

CSS 35.7 KiB 2%

HTML 26.6 KiB 2%

Other 2.3 KiB 0%

Other 1.6 KiB 0%

0 2.4 MB 4.9 MB

Approaching limit

JS Execution Cost

637ms total JS execution

REVIEW

637ms total JS execution

Unattributable: 163ms CPU time

https://theintercept.com/: 152ms CPU time

https://cdn.parsely.com/keys/theintercept.com/p.js...: 150ms CPU time

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/destination?...: 106ms CPU time

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-K3F...: 66ms CPU time

Third-party scripts: 485ms (76% of total)

Main Thread Breakdown

Script Evaluation 46% Other 27% Style & Layout 15% Script Parsing & Compilation 4% Garbage Collection 3% Parse HTML & CSS 3%

Script	Total	Scripting	Parse/Compile	Party
Unattributable	163ms	1ms	0ms	3rd
https://theintercept.com/	152ms	5ms	1ms	1st
https://cdn.parsely.com/keys/theintercept.com/p.js?ver=3.16.3	150ms	127ms	2ms	3rd
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/destination?id=G-94T13D50WM&cx=c&gtm=4e64h1	106ms	92ms	13ms	3rd
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-K3FG883	66ms	54ms	12ms	3rd

JS Bundles

9 scripts, 127 KB unused

REVIEW

9 scripts, 127 KB unused

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/destination?...: 66 KB unused (41%)

Consider code splitting or tree shaking to reduce unused code.

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-K3F...: 61 KB unused (46%)

Consider code splitting or tree shaking to reduce unused code.

Total unused JavaScript: 127 KB

127 KB unused JavaScript

Downloaded but never executed on this page.

Script	Size	Unused	Minified	Party
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/destination?id=G-94T13D50WM&cx=c&gtm=4e64h1	162 KB	66 KB (41%)	✓	3rd
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-K3FG883	131 KB	61 KB (46%)	✓	3rd
https://theintercept.com/wp-includes/js/dist/hooks.min.js?ver=dd5603f07f9220ed27f1	2 KB	—	✓	1st
https://theintercept.com/wp-includes/js/dist/i18n.min.js?ver=c26c3dc7bed366793375	2 KB	—	✓	1st
https://theintercept.com/wp-content/client-mu-plugins/wp-parsely/build/loader.js?ver=71d37502d12f3838b80d	2 KB	—	✓	1st
https://cdn.parsely.com/keys/theintercept.com/p.js?ver=3.16.3	26 KB	—	✓	3rd
https://theintercept.com/wp-content/themes/intercept/js/app.js?ver=4d80bda04cc15ed6f0873a2de9c9768c	22 KB	—	✓	1st
https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/69d3d230ac/e143fa96.js?ver=1776774497	2 KB	—	✓	1st
https://stats.wp.com/e-202617.js	2 KB	—	✓	3rd

Consider code splitting or tree shaking to reduce unused code.

Why this matters

This bundle has high unused code — code-split or tree-shake to ship only what executes.

Source: web.dev / Lighthouse coverage

Consider code splitting or tree shaking to reduce unused code.

Why this matters

This bundle has high unused code — code-split or tree-shake to ship only what executes.

Source: web.dev / Lighthouse coverage

Page Weight Inventory

Action

44 resources · 1.5 MB · 127 KB savings available

REVIEW

44 resources · 1.5 MB · 127 KB savings available

Page weight 529 KB over 1MB target

Got: 1.5 MB Expected: ≤ 1 MB

~127 KB of savings available

8 third-party resources (21% of weight)

2 resources over 200KB

44 resources · 1.5 MiB · 8 third-party 528.9 KiB over 1MB target

Image 66% · 1022.1 KiB

JavaScript 23% · 352.0 KiB

Font 7% · 115.0 KiB

CSS 2% · 35.7 KiB

Document 2% · 26.6 KiB

Other 0% · 1.6 KiB

~126.5 KiB of savings available

Remove unused JavaScript: 126.5 KiB

#	Resource	Type	Size	Cache	Unused	3rd party	Issues

44 resources			1.5 MiB

Green Hosting

Action

Whether the site is served from green-energy infrastructure

REVIEW

Green Hosting

No green hosting detected

Third-Party Impact

21% third-party, 0 ms blocking

PASS

21% third-party, 0 ms blocking

Third-party code accounts for 21% of page weight (323.0 KiB of 1.5 MiB)

Third-party blocking time is low (0 ms)

79%

21%

First-party Third-party

A+

Text Compression

All text resources are compressed

PASS

All text resources are compressed

All text resources are properly compressed.

Image Optimization

22 images, 0 KB saveable

PASS

22 images, 0 KB saveable

All images are well-optimized

22 images 1020 KB

0 oversized -0 KB

2 legacy format

0 missing dimensions CLS risk

A+

Font Loading

6 fonts (115 KB)

PASS

6 fonts (115 KB)

6 font(s) use font-display: swap (FOUT risk but functional)

Web fonts

115 KB total

Render-blocking

of 6

Dominant font-display

swap

Most common across fonts

Font loading timeline

Transfer FOIT (block) FOUT (swap)

TIActuBetaHeavy.woff2 woff2 swap

Size 20 KB

Load time 15 ms

Start 30 ms