carnival.com

Readiness by lane

Green: carnival.com. Thin bar: Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peer median.

Priority fixes for carnival.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 30 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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.

   46% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 4 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.

   41% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.

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

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.

   44% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Enable

   Structured data present

   Observed: The homepage had no JSON-LD structured data.

   What to do: Add JSON-LD for your organization and main content types, then test it with Google's Rich Results Test.

   69% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.

   Guide: Structured Data Basics for Website Owners

What carnival.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers use.

• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.30% of peers
• Static files cached for 30 days or moreLong-lived caching on static files.49% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.carnival.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-14

CDN or edge

Akamai

Platform or framework

Sitecore

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS

HSTS

max-age 30 days, includeSubDomains

Homepage HTML

34 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

4 (png 3, svg 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

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