acbar.org

Readiness by lane

Green: acbar.org. Thin bar: Forums & Communities peer median.

Priority fixes for acbar.org

Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 7 days, short of the 30-day benchmark.

   Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.

   What to do: Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.

   51% of Forums & Communities peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

   Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.

   What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.

   61% of Forums & Communities peers do this.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 30 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.

   30% of Forums & Communities peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 6 external scripts without async or defer.

   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.

   41% of Forums & Communities peers do this.

   Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page

What acbar.org already does well

Practices fewer than half of Forums & Communities peers use.

• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.25% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.28% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.31% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.acbar.org/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-11-29

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

183 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

30 (jpg 23, png 10)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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