Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
bbc.com
bbc.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 85/100
- Ahead of
- 97%
- Practices observed
- 24/30
- Popularity band
- Top 1K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
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Readiness by lane
Green: bbc.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
85/100
Peers 89
Harden
85/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
85/100
Peers 68
Recover
100/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for bbc.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 360 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.
60% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Enable
Social preview image set
Observed: The homepage had no og:image, so shared links may show without a preview image.
What to do: Add Open Graph tags, including og:image with a 1200 x 630 image.
71% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · 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.
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.
Priority 4 · Harden
Content Security Policy present
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.
What to do: Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.
On Next.js: Next.js documents nonce-based CSP with middleware.
29% of News & Media peers do this.
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What bbc.com 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.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- GlobalSign, 155-day validity, expiring 2027-01-24
- CDN or edge
- Fastly
- Platform or framework
- Next.js
- DNS operators
- 2 self-run or other nameserver domains
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 664 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 143 (webp 684, png 70)
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 6
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
- 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
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Not measured 1
- robots.txt published
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