actu.fr

Readiness by lane

Green: actu.fr. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Priority fixes for actu.fr

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 142 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   Why it matters: WebP and AVIF are typically much smaller than JPEG or PNG at similar quality, and images are often the heaviest part of a page.

   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.

   44% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.

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

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 3 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.

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   Framing restricted

   Observed: The homepage did not send frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, so other sites may frame it.

   What to do: Send Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self' (or a list of trusted origins). X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN covers older browsers.

   On Cloudflare: Add the header with a response header transform rule.

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from Gandi SAS had a 380-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.

   66% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What actu.fr already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazonaws.com, amazontrust.com and others.13% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.35% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://actu.fr/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Gandi SAS, 380-day validity, expiring 2027-02-24

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

925 KB, br

Images on homepage

142 (jpg 97, svg 61, png 16)

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

Stack and providers

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