Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 94/100
- Ahead of
- >99%
- Practices observed
- 26/29
- Popularity band
- Top 1K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
2 of 31 could not be measured
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Readiness by lane
Green: bbc.co.uk. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
94/100
Peers 89
Harden
91/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
100/100
Peers 68
Recover
100/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for bbc.co.uk
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from GlobalSign nv-sa had a 155-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
Why it matters: Under CA/Browser Forum Ballot SC-081v3, the maximum lifetime of public TLS certificates fell to 200 days on 15 March 2026 and falls to 100 days on 15 March 2027 and 47 days on 15 March 2029. Sites that renew by hand will need to renew far more often.
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. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Priority 2 · Enable
Reachable over IPv6
Observed: No IPv6 (AAAA) address was published for www.bbc.co.uk.
What to do: Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.
51% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
DNSSEC signed
Observed: No DS record was found for bbc.co.uk 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.
6.1% of News & Media peers do this.
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What bbc.co.uk already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.6.2% of peers
- Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.11% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, digicert.com, globalsign.com.13% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- GlobalSign, 155-day validity, expiring 2027-01-24
- CDN or edge
- Fastly
- DNS operators
- 2 self-run or other nameserver domains
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 687 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 91 (jpg 252, webp 186, png 24)
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
Observed 26
- 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
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- 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
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- robots.txt published
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