archive.org

Readiness by lane

Green: archive.org. Thin bar: Literary & Knowledge peer median.

Priority fixes for archive.org

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HTTP requests move to HTTPS

   Observed: A request to http://archive.org/ was not redirected to HTTPS.

   Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.

   What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.

   89% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.

   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.

   69% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Enable

   Meta description written

   Observed: The homepage had no meta description.

   What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.

   88% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

   Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 182 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.

   28% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What archive.org already does well

Practices fewer than half of Literary & Knowledge peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.5% of peers
• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.5.8% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.18% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://archive.org/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

GoDaddy, 397-day validity, expiring 2027-02-09

DNS operators

3 self-run or other nameserver domains

HSTS

max-age 182 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

2 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

0

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

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