Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
airbnb.com
airbnb.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 478 Travel Bookings & Trip Planning sites.
- Readiness index
- 88/100
- Ahead of
- 97%
- Practices observed
- 24/29
- Popularity band
- Top 5K
Travel Bookings & Trip Planning median 68
of measured Travel Bookings & Trip Planning sites
2 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: airbnb.com. Thin bar: Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 86
Harden
88/100
Peers 60
Accelerate
80/100
Peers 64
Recover
100/100
Peers 13
Priority fixes for airbnb.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1383 seconds, 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.
49% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · 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.
52% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.
Priority 3 · Enable
Reachable over IPv6
Observed: No IPv6 (AAAA) address was published for www.airbnb.com.
What to do: Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.
36% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
DNSSEC signed
Observed: No DS record was found for airbnb.com at its parent zone, so its DNS answers are not DNSSEC-signed.
What to do: Enable DNSSEC at your DNS provider, then add the DS record at your registrar. Plan provider moves carefully: a stale DS record can make the domain fail to resolve.
On Amazon Route 53: Enable DNSSEC signing for the hosted zone and establish the chain of trust at the registrar.
5.2% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.
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What airbnb.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers use.
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com, letsencrypt.org, pki.goog.10% of peers
- Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across Amazon Route 53 and NS1.13% of peers
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.17% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.airbnb.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 364-day validity, expiring 2027-01-26
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53, NS1
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 593 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 1 (png 2)
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 5
Observed 24
- 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
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- 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
- Nameservers spread across providers
Not measured 2
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: airbnb.com. This profile covers configuration only.