breitbart.com

Readiness by lane

Green: breitbart.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Priority fixes for breitbart.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 116 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   Why it matters: WebP and AVIF are typically much smaller than JPEG or PNG at similar quality, and images are often the heaviest part of a page.

   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 Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.

   44% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.

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

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 2 external scripts 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.

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   Framing restricted

   Observed: The homepage did not send frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, so other sites may frame it.

   What to do: Send Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self' (or a list of trusted origins). X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN covers older browsers.

   On Cloudflare: Add the header with a response header transform rule.

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from Sectigo Limited had a 198-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.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What breitbart.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age.35% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.36% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.37% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.breitbart.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Sectigo, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-30

CDN or edge

Google edge

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 730 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

188 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

116 (jpg 92, png 24)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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