capitalgroup.com

Readiness by lane

Green: capitalgroup.com. Thin bar: Banking & Finance peer median.

Priority fixes for capitalgroup.com

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://www.capitalgroup.com/ 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.

   94% of Banking & Finance 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

   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 Banking & Finance peers do this.

   Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 4 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.

   36% of Banking & Finance peers do this.

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

4. 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.

   51% of Banking & Finance peers do this.

   Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know

What capitalgroup.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Banking & Finance peers use.

• DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.12% of peers
• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, digicert.com, letsencrypt.org and others.20% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.36% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.capitalgroup.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-02-20

CDN or edge

Akamai

Platform or framework

Adobe Experience Manager

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

34 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

2 (png 3, jpg 3)

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

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