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freecodecamp.org/news

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news

78PERF 100A11Y 100BEST 100SEO !AXE !CWV

Ranks Overall #1,090 Built Awesome #764

Data from Oct 5, 2026, 8:30 AM UTC old Measured once a week · 7 runs since Aug 21, 2026

Elsewhere: PageSpeed Insights · Calibre · Treo · CrUX Vis · Tame the Bots · Scoring Calculator · Wayback Machine

Lab data is measured using Lighthouse, Mobile mode unless otherwise specified. Field data is reported from Chrome UX Report (using p75 measurements).

Stack

Eleventy Built with Eleventy
Uses Font Awesome 7.0.1Font Awesome 7.0.1
Cloudflare Hosted by Cloudflare

Lighthouse Scores LAB Simulated

78
Performance
↑ +13 (+20%)
100
Accessibility
no change
100
Best Practices
no change
100
SEO
no change

Metrics LAB FIELD

Core Web Vitals: failing 3 of 3 assessed from real Chrome users.

Field figures are the p75 across real Chrome users over a 28-day trailing window (2026-09-06 → 2026-10-03), url-level.

Metric Lab Simulated Field
Value Change / range Trend p75 Distribution
LCP CWV Largest Contentful Paint 5.28 s poor ↓ -4305 ms (-44.9%) 4.42 s – 16.33 s 2.56 s needs work 73.7% 15.2% 11.1%
INP CWV Interaction to Next Paint — field only, no lab run can measure it n/a — 126 ms good 81.6% 15.6% 2.9%
CLS CWV Cumulative Layout Shift 0.001 good ↓ -0.023 (-95.8%) significant 0.001 – 0.024 0 good 99.8% 0.2% 0%
TBT Total Blocking Time 127 ms good ↓ -114 ms (-47.3%) 127 ms – 442 ms n/a —
FCP First Contentful Paint 1.94 s needs work ↓ -972 ms (-33.4%) significant 1.94 s – 2.94 s 2.00 s needs work 69.2% 18.2% 12.6%
Speed Index 1.94 s good ↓ -972 ms (-33.4%) significant 1.94 s – 2.94 s n/a —
TTFB Time to First Byte 645 ms good ↑ +172 ms (+36.4%) significant 465 ms – 645 ms 1.75 s needs work 45.3% 32.1% 22.5%

LCP Subparts LAB Unthrottled

The subparts attribute LCP to your server, resource discovery, download, or rendering. Note that the Lab LCP shown above is a simulated throttled estimate.

time to first byte 204 ms
resource load duration 201 ms
element render delay 50 ms
resource load delay 13 ms

LCP LAB Simulated vs LCP FIELD

Lab 5.28 s
Field p75 2.56 s

The lab LCP is 2.06× the field p75 — real users likely have above-average hardware or network connectivity.

Page weight

Metric Value Change / range Trend
Page Weight 4.53 MB ↑ +639.9 kB (+16.9%) 3.88 MB – 31.53 MB
Requests 65 ↑ +3 (+4.8%) 62 – 65
Third-party Weight 4.42 MB ↑ +641.1 kB (+17.4%) 3.77 MB – 31.42 MB
Third-party CPU 123 ms ↓ -37 ms (-23.3%) 123 ms – 252 ms
Unused JS 214 kB ↓ -340 B (-0.2%) 206 kB – 214 kB
Unused CSS 12.6 kB → no change 12.6 kB – 12.6 kB

By resource type

Type Transfer Share Size Requests
image 83.4% 3.77 MB 34
script 12.1% 549 kB 12
font 3.1% 142 kB 3
stylesheet 0.7% 30.7 kB 8
other 0.4% 15.9 kB 6
document 0.3% 14.9 kB 1
Total 4.53 MB 65

Third parties 7 entities

Entity Transfer Size Main thread Simulated
hashnode.com image 3.75 MB 0 ms
Google Tag Manager 481 kB 107 ms
Cloudflare CDN 128 kB 0 ms
Google Fonts 29.5 kB 0 ms
Google Analytics 21.9 kB 12 ms
All 7 4.42 MB 123 ms

Page health

Metric Value Change / range Trend
Main Thread Work 1.33 s ↓ -748 ms (-36%) 1.33 s – 3.33 s
Long Tasks 5 ↓ -5 (-50%) significant 5 – 10
DOM Elements 641 → no change 641 – 643
Axe Violations Violating nodes from a full Axe CLI run (more than Lighthouse reports) 2 → no change 2 – 2
A11y Failures 0 → no change 0 – 0
A11y Failing Nodes 0 → no change 0 – 0

Main thread work

Task Time Share Duration Simulated
script evaluation 43% 576 ms
other 28% 371 ms
style layout 13% 168 ms
script parse compile 9% 121 ms
parse HTML 3% 46 ms
paint composite render 3% 35 ms
garbage collection 1% 14 ms
Total 1.33 s

Axe violations axe-core 4.13.0, full rule set

2 violating nodes across 2 rules, 1375 passing. This is a standalone Axe CLI run and is stricter than the subset Lighthouse already includes.

Hygiene

HTTPS HSTS CSP Clickjacking protection Origin isolation Trusted Types bfcache h2

Measurement log

Field history 25 weeks

Weekly p75 from the CrUX History API, backfilled in a single request.

Week ending LCPINPCLSFCPTTFB
2026-09-26 2.64 s 111 ms 0 2.03 s 1.79 s
2026-09-19 2.80 s 107 ms 0 1.99 s 1.74 s
2026-09-12 2.67 s 98 ms 0 1.89 s 1.83 s
2026-09-05 2.66 s 99 ms 0 1.79 s 1.85 s
2026-08-29 2.42 s 95 ms 0 1.78 s 1.81 s
2026-08-22 2.58 s 99 ms 0 1.89 s 1.91 s
2026-08-15 2.58 s 99 ms 0 1.91 s 1.72 s
2026-08-08 2.74 s 95 ms 0 2.03 s 1.86 s
2026-08-01 3.04 s 98 ms 0 2.17 s 1.89 s
2026-07-25 2.90 s 84 ms 0 2.16 s 1.91 s
2026-07-18 3.10 s 87 ms 0 2.36 s 2.02 s
2026-07-11 2.91 s 84 ms 0 2.04 s 1.90 s

Runs

Every stored run for this URL, newest first.

When Scores PerfLCPCLSTBTWeight RunsSpreadBenchTook Archive
Oct 5, 2026, 8:30 AM UTC 78 5.28 s 0.001 127 ms 4.53 MB 3/3 ±16 3,329 +34% 30.5s Wayback
Sep 28, 2026, 3:57 AM UTC 65 9.58 s 0.024 241 ms 3.88 MB 3/3 ±3 2,476 0% 32.7s Wayback
Sep 21, 2026, 1:01 AM UTC 70 6.11 s 0.001 195 ms 3.94 MB 3/3 ±3 2,480 0% 32.4s Wayback
Sep 13, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC 79 4.42 s 0.001 148 ms 4.35 MB 3/3 ±6 2,860 +15% 31.3s Wayback
Sep 6, 2026, 9:09 PM UTC 64 8.81 s 0.011 281 ms 7.47 MB 3/3 ±12 2,477 0% 33s Wayback
Aug 30, 2026, 8:46 PM UTC 59 8.04 s 0.001 442 ms 31.53 MB 3/3 ±9 2,486 0% 36.4s Wayback
Aug 21, 2026, 10:36 AM UTC 66 16.33 s 0.011 271 ms 21.86 MB 3/3 ±3 2,953 +19% 31.1s Wayback

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