Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
99designs.com
99designs.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 356 Design & Content Creation sites.
- Readiness index
- 81/100
- Ahead of
- 88%
- Practices observed
- 22/30
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Design & Content Creation median 69
of measured Design & Content Creation sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: 99designs.com. Thin bar: Design & Content Creation peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 86
Harden
85/100
Peers 57
Accelerate
62/100
Peers 71
Recover
0/100
Peers 3
Priority fixes for 99designs.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 3 external scripts without async or defer.
Why it matters: A plain <script src> in the head stops the browser from showing anything until that file has downloaded and run.
What to do: Add defer to scripts that need the DOM, async to independent ones such as analytics, or move them to the end of the body.
On WordPress: Since WordPress 6.3, scripts can be registered with a defer or async loading strategy.
49% of Design & Content Creation peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
Observed: The homepage had 66 images and none used loading="lazy".
What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.
On WordPress: WordPress has added loading="lazy" to images by default since 5.5; check that your theme or a plugin has not removed it.
72% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
HTTP/3 advertised
Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.
What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.
43% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from Amazon had a 197-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.
72% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.
What 99designs.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Design & Content Creation peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.9.1% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.26% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://99designs.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-03-25
- Platform or framework
- WordPress
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 163 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 66 (jpg 58, png 36)
Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.
Stack and providers
Seen in the homepage response, certificate and DNS. Provider pages compare how their customers configure the same checks.
All 31 checks
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 8
Observed 22
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 1
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
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