actionnetwork.org

Readiness by lane

Green: actionnetwork.org. Thin bar: Business Tools peer median.

Priority fixes for actionnetwork.org

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 180 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   What to do: Send Strict-Transport-Security on HTTPS responses. Start with a short max-age (for example 300 seconds), confirm every subdomain works over HTTPS, then raise it in steps to 31536000. Add includeSubDomains only when all subdomains are HTTPS. HSTS preload is optional and hard to undo; hstspreload.org itself does not recommend it by default.

   On Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.

   45% of Business Tools peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS 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.

   On WordPress: WordPress has generated a basic sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml since 5.5; SEO plugins can replace it.

   61% of Business Tools 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 14 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.

   On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.

   42% of Business Tools 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 2 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.

   On WordPress: Since WordPress 6.3, scripts can be registered with a defer or async loading strategy.

   46% of Business Tools peers do this.

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

What actionnetwork.org already does well

Practices fewer than half of Business Tools peers use.

• DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.8.3% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.29% of peers
• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.37% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://actionnetwork.org/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-16

CDN or edge

Cloudflare, Fastly

Platform or framework

WordPress

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 180 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

110 KB, br

Images on homepage

14 (png 40, svg 1, jpg 1)

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

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