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Category benchmark · Snapshot 23 October 2026

Design & Content Creation: website readiness

31 configuration checks across 356 Design & Content Creation sites from the SID website catalog, with 196 individual profiles for sites in the Chrome UX Report top 50K.

Sites measured
356

all popularity bands

Median readiness index
69/100

all sites: 64

Profiles
196

top-50K sites

Weakest lane
Recover

lowest weighted score

Readiness by lane

Enable

86/100

All sites 77

Harden

57/100

All sites 56

Accelerate

71/100

All sites 64

Recover

3/100

All sites 10

Biggest gaps for Design & Content Creation sites

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

  1. HSTS kept for at least a year

    37% 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

  2. security.txt published

    9.1% 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

  3. DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

    41% 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

  4. CAA records limit who can issue certificates

    17% 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

  5. Content Security Policy present

    29% observed · all sites 32%

    Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.

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

  6. DNSSEC signed

    8.2% observed · all sites 8%

    Enable DNSSEC at your DNS provider, then add the DS record at your registrar. Plan provider moves carefully: a stale DS record can make the domain fail to resolve.

    Guide: Website Uptime Readiness: Prepare Before Traffic Arrives

Where Design & Content Creation sites lead

  • robots.txt published94% observedall sites 76%
  • Modern image formats in use56% observedall sites 40%
  • Meta description written97% observedall sites 84%
  • XML sitemap discoverable84% observedall sites 70%

Stack mix

CDN and edge

Platform or framework

DNS operator

Certificate authority

Readiness leaders

Design & Content Creation 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.

  1. higgsfield.ai94/100
  2. postermywall.com90/100
  3. renderforest.com90/100
  4. viggle.ai90/100
  5. figma.com88/100
  6. pixelcut.ai87/100
  7. grammarly.com86/100
  8. cgtrader.com86/100
  9. magichour.ai86/100
  10. suno.com84/100

All 31 checks for Design & Content Creation

CheckLaneObservedAll sitesMeasured
HTTP requests move to HTTPSHarden96%91%341
HSTS kept for at least a yearHarden37%34%356
TLS 1.3 negotiatedHarden94%91%356
Certificate has more than 14 days leftHarden>99%99%356
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or lessHarden72%67%356
CAA records limit who can issue certificatesHarden17%13%356
DNSSEC signedHarden8.2%8%355
security.txt publishedHarden9.1%7.1%352
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectHarden41%39%355
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffHarden39%48%356
Framing restrictedHarden48%51%356
Content Security Policy presentHarden29%32%356
Referrer-Policy setHarden26%24%356
HTTP/2 negotiatedAccelerate93%90%356
HTTP/3 advertisedAccelerate43%37%356
HTML compressedAccelerate97%93%355
Static files cached for 30 days or moreAccelerate57%51%304
Modern image formats in useAccelerate56%40%324
Offscreen images lazy-loadedAccelerate72%62%304
No render-blocking scripts in <head>Accelerate49%48%356
robots.txt publishedEnable94%76%349
XML sitemap discoverableEnable84%70%355
Reachable over IPv6Enable54%48%355
Canonical URL declaredEnable80%68%356
Meta description writtenEnable97%84%356
Mobile viewport configuredEnable98%94%356
Structured data presentEnable64%51%356
Social preview image setEnable69%57%356
Page language declaredEnable91%90%356
At most one redirect to the homepageEnable100%98%356
Nameservers spread across providersRecover2.5%10%354

Design & Content Creation profiles

Readiness index shown next to each site.