alamy.com

Readiness by lane

Green: alamy.com. Thin bar: Stock Image & Video Libraries peer median.

Priority fixes for alamy.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   TLS 1.3 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.

   Why it matters: TLS 1.3 removes legacy cipher suites and completes the handshake in fewer round trips, so it is both safer and faster for new connections.

   What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.

   92% of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 183 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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 Next.js: Add the header in the headers() option of next.config.js for all routes.

   30% of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   62% of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · 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.

   On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.

   60% of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers do this.

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

What alamy.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, comodoca.com, digicert.com and others.12% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.21% of peers
• Social preview image setog:image present.40% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.alamy.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.2, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 394-day validity, expiring 2027-03-13

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 183 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

390 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

17 (jpg 22, svg 14, png 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.

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