Category benchmark · Snapshot 23 October 2026

Business Tools: website readiness

31 configuration checks across 469 Business Tools sites from the SID website catalog, with 232 individual profiles for sites in the Chrome UX Report top 50K.

Sites measured: 469
Median readiness index: 63/100
Profiles: 232
Weakest lane: Recover

Readiness by lane

Enable

75/100

All sites 77

Harden

57/100

All sites 56

Accelerate

60/100

All sites 64

Recover

6/100

All sites 10

Biggest gaps for Business Tools sites

The checks with the most room to improve, weighted by impact.

HSTS kept for at least a year
45% observed · all sites 34%
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.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
security.txt published
9.4% observed · all sites 7.1%
Publish /.well-known/security.txt with at least Contact and Expires fields, as RFC 9116 requires, and review it before it expires.
Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners
Modern image formats in use
42% observed · all sites 40%
Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Static files cached for 30 days or more
42% observed · all sites 51%
Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.
Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
16% observed · all sites 13%
Publish CAA records naming every CA you actually use, including the CAs your CDN uses for managed certificates. Add an iodef contact if you want reports.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
50% observed · all sites 39%
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.
Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

Where Business Tools sites lead

DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject50% observedall sites 39%
HSTS kept for at least a year45% observedall sites 34%
Meta description written90% observedall sites 84%
Referrer-Policy set28% observedall sites 24%

Stack mix

CDN and edge

Platform or framework

WordPress14%
Next.js10%
Webflow4.7%
Adobe Experience Manager2.3%
HubSpot CMS2.1%
Astro1.7%
Drupal1.7%
PrestaShop1.3%

DNS operator

Certificate authority

Readiness leaders

Business Tools sites in the top 50K with the highest share of observed practices (at least 26 of 31 checks measured). This lists only what we observed on 23 October 2026; owners can request a correction.

All 31 checks for Business Tools

Check	Lane	Observed	All sites	Measured
HTTP requests move to HTTPS	Harden	91%	91%	435
HSTS kept for at least a year	Harden	45%	34%	465
TLS 1.3 negotiated	Harden	85%	91%	467
Certificate has more than 14 days left	Harden	99%	99%	467
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less	Harden	56%	67%	467
CAA records limit who can issue certificates	Harden	16%	13%	469
DNSSEC signed	Harden	8.3%	8%	468
security.txt published	Harden	9.4%	7.1%	457
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject	Harden	50%	39%	469
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff	Harden	46%	48%	465
Framing restricted	Harden	48%	51%	465
Content Security Policy present	Harden	28%	32%	465
Referrer-Policy set	Harden	28%	24%	465
HTTP/2 negotiated	Accelerate	82%	90%	467
HTTP/3 advertised	Accelerate	29%	37%	465
HTML compressed	Accelerate	91%	93%	463
Static files cached for 30 days or more	Accelerate	42%	51%	379
Modern image formats in use	Accelerate	42%	40%	372
Offscreen images lazy-loaded	Accelerate	62%	62%	338
No render-blocking scripts in <head>	Accelerate	46%	48%	465
robots.txt published	Enable	80%	76%	462
XML sitemap discoverable	Enable	61%	70%	462
Reachable over IPv6	Enable	37%	48%	469
Canonical URL declared	Enable	63%	68%	465
Meta description written	Enable	90%	84%	465
Mobile viewport configured	Enable	95%	94%	465
Structured data present	Enable	49%	51%	465
Social preview image set	Enable	58%	57%	465
Page language declared	Enable	89%	90%	465
At most one redirect to the homepage	Enable	94%	98%	465
Nameservers spread across providers	Recover	5.8%	10%	467

Business Tools profiles

Readiness index shown next to each site.

Business Tools: website readiness

Readiness by lane

Biggest gaps for Business Tools sites

HSTS kept for at least a year

security.txt published

Modern image formats in use

Static files cached for 30 days or more

CAA records limit who can issue certificates

DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject