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Category benchmark · Snapshot 23 October 2026

Live Streaming: website readiness

31 configuration checks across 51 Live Streaming sites from the SID website catalog, with 28 individual profiles for sites in the Chrome UX Report top 50K.

Sites measured
51

all popularity bands

Median readiness index
62/100

all sites: 64

Profiles
28

top-50K sites

Weakest lane
Recover

lowest weighted score

Readiness by lane

Enable

78/100

All sites 77

Harden

52/100

All sites 56

Accelerate

63/100

All sites 64

Recover

6/100

All sites 10

Biggest gaps for Live Streaming sites

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

  1. HSTS kept for at least a year

    29% 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. DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

    29% 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

  3. CAA records limit who can issue certificates

    5.9% 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

  4. security.txt published

    6.1% 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

  5. Modern image formats in use

    47% 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

  6. Static files cached for 30 days or more

    48% 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

Where Live Streaming sites lead

  • Social preview image set73% observedall sites 57%
  • Meta description written96% observedall sites 84%
  • Modern image formats in use47% observedall sites 40%
  • robots.txt published83% observedall sites 76%

Stack mix

CDN and edge

Platform or framework

DNS operator

Certificate authority

Readiness leaders

Live Streaming 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. streamelements.com90/100
  2. streamyard.com79/100
  3. tango.me77/100
  4. smotret.tv77/100
  5. streamrecorder.io75/100
  6. earthcam.com74/100
  7. kick.com71/100
  8. obsproject.com71/100
  9. botrix.live70/100
  10. twitch.tv67/100

All 31 checks for Live Streaming

CheckLaneObservedAll sitesMeasured
HTTP requests move to HTTPSHarden89%91%46
HSTS kept for at least a yearHarden29%34%49
TLS 1.3 negotiatedHarden94%91%50
Certificate has more than 14 days leftHarden98%99%50
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or lessHarden60%67%50
CAA records limit who can issue certificatesHarden5.9%13%51
DNSSEC signedHarden14%8%51
security.txt publishedHarden6.1%7.1%49
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectHarden29%39%51
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffHarden31%48%49
Framing restrictedHarden39%51%49
Content Security Policy presentHarden24%32%49
Referrer-Policy setHarden16%24%49
HTTP/2 negotiatedAccelerate92%90%50
HTTP/3 advertisedAccelerate24%37%49
HTML compressedAccelerate94%93%49
Static files cached for 30 days or moreAccelerate48%51%44
Modern image formats in useAccelerate47%40%36
Offscreen images lazy-loadedAccelerate59%62%32
No render-blocking scripts in <head>Accelerate45%48%49
robots.txt publishedEnable83%76%48
XML sitemap discoverableEnable60%70%50
Reachable over IPv6Enable41%48%51
Canonical URL declaredEnable67%68%49
Meta description writtenEnable96%84%49
Mobile viewport configuredEnable92%94%49
Structured data presentEnable49%51%49
Social preview image setEnable73%57%49
Page language declaredEnable94%90%49
At most one redirect to the homepageEnable98%98%50
Nameservers spread across providersRecover5.9%10%51

Live Streaming profiles

Readiness index shown next to each site.