Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
afl.com.au
afl.com.au's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 677 Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games sites.
- Readiness index
- 80/100
- Ahead of
- 95%
- Practices observed
- 23/31
- Popularity band
- Top 10K
Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games median 64
of measured Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: afl.com.au. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.
Enable
100/100
Peers 82
Harden
82/100
Peers 51
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 63
Recover
0/100
Peers 16
Priority fixes for afl.com.au
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 43 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.
35% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games 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
Priority 2 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script 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.
43% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 3 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 364-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.
70% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.
Priority 4 · 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.
On Amazon CloudFront: Select HTTP/3 in the distribution's supported HTTP versions.
34% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.
What afl.com.au already does well
Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.2.7% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, letsencrypt.org, pki.goog and others.7.7% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.27% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.afl.com.au/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 364-day validity, expiring 2027-02-01
- CDN or edge
- Akamai, Amazon CloudFront
- DNS operators
- 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 861 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 43 (png 50, jpg 3, svg 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
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 8
Observed 23
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- 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
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: afl.com.au. This profile covers configuration only.