Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
cardfactory.co.uk
cardfactory.co.uk's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 5,718 E-Commerce & Marketplaces sites.
- Readiness index
- 68/100
- Ahead of
- 41%
- Practices observed
- 19/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
E-Commerce & Marketplaces median 71
of measured E-Commerce & Marketplaces sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: cardfactory.co.uk. Thin bar: E-Commerce & Marketplaces peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 86
Harden
55/100
Peers 60
Accelerate
73/100
Peers 69
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for cardfactory.co.uk
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 30 days, 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.
On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.
60% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Harden
HSTS kept for at least a year
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.
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 Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.
32% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: The DMARC policy for cardfactory.co.uk was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.
What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.
39% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.
Priority 4 · 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.
44% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
What cardfactory.co.uk already does well
Practices fewer than half of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers use.
- Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.47% of peers
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.47% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.48% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.cardfactory.co.uk/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-08
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront
- DNS operators
- Vercara UltraDNS
- DMARC policy
- p=none
- Homepage HTML
- 943 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 72 (jpg 153, webp 30, svg 10, png 4, gif 1)
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 12
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Referrer-Policy set
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Reachable over IPv6
- Social preview image set
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 19
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- 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
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