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youtube.com

Generated on October 1, 2025 · Domain: youtube.com

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youtube.com
2025/10/01
76

Overall Score

78

PageSpeed

51

Website Quality

100

Trust & Security

57

Performance

92

SEO

79

Best Practices

91

Accessibility

Performance
57/100
Largest Contentful Paint
0/25
9.9s
2.5s4.0s
First Contentful Paint
0/10
6.9s
1.8s3.0s
Total Blocking Time
29/30
130ms
200ms400ms
Cumulative Layout Shift
25/25
0.00
0.100.25
Speed Index
3/10
6.9s
3.4s5.4s
SEO
92/100
Page isn’t blocked from indexing
31/31
Document has a `<title>` element
8/8
Document has a meta description
8/8
Page has successful HTTP status code
8/8
Links do not have descriptive text
0/8
Links are crawlable
8/8
robots.txt is valid
8/8
Image elements have `[alt]` attributes
8/8
Document has a valid `hreflang`
8/8
Document has a valid `rel=canonical`
8/8
Best Practices
79/100
Uses HTTPS
18/18
Uses deprecated APIs
0/18
Avoids third-party cookies
18/18
Allows users to paste into input fields
11/11
Avoids requesting the geolocation permission on page load
4/4
Avoids requesting the notification permission on page load
4/4
Displays images with correct aspect ratio
4/4
Serves images with appropriate resolution
4/4
Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`
4/4
Document uses legible font sizes
4/4
Page has the HTML doctype
4/4
Properly defines charset
4/4
Browser errors were logged to the console
0/4
No issues in the `Issues` panel in Chrome Devtools
4/4
Accessibility
91/100
`[aria-*]` attributes match their roles
5/5
`[aria-hidden="true"]` is not present on the document `<body>`
5/5
`[role]`s have all required `[aria-*]` attributes
5/5
Elements with an ARIA `[role]` that require children to contain a specific `[role]` have all required children.
5/5
`[role]`s are contained by their required parent element
5/5
`[aria-*]` attributes have valid values
5/5
`[aria-*]` attributes are valid and not misspelled
5/5
Buttons have an accessible name
5/5
Image elements have `[alt]` attributes
5/5
`[user-scalable="no"]` is used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element or the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is less than 5.
0/5
`button`, `link`, and `menuitem` elements have accessible names
4/4
ARIA attributes are used as specified for the element's role
4/4
Elements with `role="dialog"` or `role="alertdialog"` have accessible names.
4/4
`[aria-hidden="true"]` elements do not contain focusable descendents
4/4
Elements use only permitted ARIA attributes
4/4
`[role]` values are valid
4/4
Elements with the `role=text` attribute do not have focusable descendents.
4/4
Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
0/4
Document has a `<title>` element
4/4
`<html>` element has a `[lang]` attribute
4/4
`<html>` element has a valid value for its `[lang]` attribute
4/4
Touch targets have sufficient size and spacing.
4/4
Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order
2/2
Uses ARIA roles only on compatible elements
1/1
Deprecated ARIA roles were not used
1/1
Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes that are redundant text.
1/1

Site Quality

Title
5/20
YouTube
7 chars (ideal 30–60)
Meta Description
15/15
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
126 chars (ideal 120–160)
Favicon
3/3
Favicon preview
https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/1c6b3028/img/favicon.ico
present
Viewport meta
0/8
missing (ideal: width=device-width, initial-scale=1)
robots.txt
6/6
# robots.txt file for YouTube # Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after # the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans. User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /comment Disallow: /feeds/videos.xml Disallow: /file_download Disallow: /get_video Disallow: /get_video_info Disallow: /get_midroll_info Disallow: /live_chat Disallow: /login Disallow: /qr Disallow: /results Disallow: /signup Disallow: /t/terms Disallow: /timedte...
perfect (User-agent + Allow + Sitemap)
Sitemap
7/7
https://www.youtube.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
present
Headings
0/6
missing (add H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 tags to structure content)
Schema.org JSON-LD
0/2
missing (consider Organization, Article, Product, or FAQPage schemas)
Canonical URL
8/8
https://www.youtube.com/
present
HTML lang
4/4
en
present
Character encoding
0/4
missing (add <meta charset='utf-8'> in <head>)

Open Graph

Title
0/3
missing (add <meta property='og:title'> for social sharing)
Description
0/3
missing (add <meta property='og:description'> for social sharing)
Image
3/3
Image preview
https://www.youtube.com/img/desktop/yt_1200.png
present
URL
0/3
missing (add <meta property='og:url'> with full URL)
Type
0/1
missing (add <meta property='og:type' content='website'>)

Twitter Cards

Card Type
0/1
missing
Title
0/1
missing (add <meta name='twitter:title'> for Twitter sharing)
Description
0/1
missing (add <meta name='twitter:description'> for Twitter sharing)
Image
0/1
missing (add <meta name='twitter:image'> with 1200x630px image)

Security Headers

HTTPS
30/30
HTTPS enabled
HTTP Strict Transport Security
15/15
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Content Security Policy
15/15
Content-Security-Policy: require-trusted-types-for 'script'
Frame Protection
5/5
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
MIME Type Protection
5/5
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Domain Trust

Domain Rating
25/25
100 (Last sync: 30th July 2025)
1525
Domain Age
5/5
20 years
Registrar
MarkMonitor, Inc.
Country
US

Infrastructure

Provider
no hosting or CDN provider detected

FAQs

Report-specific answers

Key takeaways for youtube.com pulled from this audit.

How often should I refresh the YourWebsiteScore report for youtube.com?

The latest audit was captured on October 1, 2025.

Re-run the analysis after major deployments or at least once a month so you can spot Core Web Vitals, snippet, or security regressions before they affect rankings or conversions.

Which Lighthouse performance improvements should youtube.com tackle first?

Largest Contentful Paint (mobile) at 9.9s: reclaim ≈25 points. Optimise hero media, inline critical CSS, and prioritise above-the-fold requests so the primary content renders faster.

Total Blocking Time (desktop) at 491ms: reclaim ≈21 points. Split large JavaScript bundles, defer non-critical scripts, and keep heavy work off the main thread to improve responsiveness.

Largest Contentful Paint (desktop) at 3.9s: reclaim ≈20 points. Optimise hero media, inline critical CSS, and prioritise above-the-fold requests so the primary content renders faster.

Which Lighthouse SEO audits should youtube.com fix first?

Links do not have descriptive text (mobile) is missing roughly 8 points. Fixing it will raise the SEO score and strengthen how youtube.com appears in search.

Links do not have descriptive text (desktop) is missing roughly 8 points. Fixing it will raise the SEO score and strengthen how youtube.com appears in search.

Links are not crawlable (desktop) is missing roughly 8 points. Fixing it will raise the SEO score and strengthen how youtube.com appears in search.

Which Lighthouse Best Practices should youtube.com fix first?

Uses deprecated APIs (mobile) is missing roughly 18 points. Fixing it will raise the Best Practices score and keep youtube.com aligned with modern browser expectations.

Browser errors were logged to the console (mobile) is missing roughly 4 points. Fixing it will raise the Best Practices score and keep youtube.com aligned with modern browser expectations.

Uses deprecated APIs (desktop) is missing roughly 19 points. Fixing it will raise the Best Practices score and keep youtube.com aligned with modern browser expectations.

Browser errors were logged to the console (desktop) is missing roughly 4 points. Fixing it will raise the Best Practices score and keep youtube.com aligned with modern browser expectations.

Which Lighthouse Accessibility audits should youtube.com fix first?

`[user-scalable="no"]` is used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element or the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is less than 5. (mobile) is missing roughly 5 points. Fixing it will raise the Accessibility score and make youtube.com easier to use.

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. (mobile) is missing roughly 4 points. Fixing it will raise the Accessibility score and make youtube.com easier to use.

Which Website Quality issues should youtube.com fix first?

Title: missing ≈15 points. 7 chars (ideal 30–60). Focus on it to lift youtube.com's Website Quality score.

Viewport meta: missing ≈8 points. Missing (ideal: width=device-width, initial-scale=1). Focus on it to lift youtube.com's Website Quality score.

Headings: missing ≈6 points. Missing (add H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 tags to structure content). Focus on it to lift youtube.com's Website Quality score.

Which Trust & Security fixes should youtube.com tackle first?

youtube.com's Trust & Security score is already 100/100.

Maintain TLS, security headers, and domain hygiene so the score stays perfect after new releases.

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