bible.com

Readiness by lane

Green: bible.com. Thin bar: Literary & Knowledge peer median.

Priority fixes for bible.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

   Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.

   Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.

   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. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

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

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 180 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 Fastly: Add the header in VCL or a header rule as described in Fastly's HSTS guide.

   28% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   48% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 39 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.

   On Next.js: The next/image component serves optimized formats automatically.

   31% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

What bible.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Literary & Knowledge peers use.

• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.5.8% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.18% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.22% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.bible.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Certainly, 29-day validity, expiring 2026-11-19

CDN or edge

Fastly

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

NS1, plus 1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 180 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

413 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

39 (svg 7, png 6)

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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