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Category benchmark · Snapshot 23 October 2026

News & Media: website readiness

31 configuration checks across 3,856 News & Media sites from the SID website catalog, with 2,817 individual profiles for sites in the Chrome UX Report top 50K.

Sites measured
3,856

all popularity bands

Median readiness index
68/100

all sites: 64

Profiles
2,817

top-50K sites

Weakest lane
Recover

lowest weighted score

Readiness by lane

Enable

89/100

All sites 77

Harden

56/100

All sites 56

Accelerate

68/100

All sites 64

Recover

11/100

All sites 10

Biggest gaps for News & Media sites

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

  1. HSTS kept for at least a year

    35% 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

    37% 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. security.txt published

    6.2% 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

  4. CAA records limit who can issue certificates

    13% 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. Modern image formats in use

    44% 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. No render-blocking scripts in <head>

    42% observed · all sites 48%

    Add defer to scripts that need the DOM, async to independent ones such as analytics, or move them to the end of the body.

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

Where News & Media sites lead

  • Structured data present76% observedall sites 51%
  • robots.txt published98% observedall sites 76%
  • Canonical URL declared89% observedall sites 68%
  • XML sitemap discoverable87% observedall sites 70%

Stack mix

CDN and edge

Platform or framework

DNS operator

Certificate authority

Readiness leaders

News & Media 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. diyadinnet.com96/100
  2. bbc.co.uk94/100
  3. polygon.com94/100
  4. xda-developers.com94/100
  5. nikkei.com92/100
  6. cbr.com92/100
  7. movieweb.com92/100
  8. giornalone.it92/100
  9. noticiasautomotivas.com.br92/100
  10. the-independent.com92/100

All 31 checks for News & Media

CheckLaneObservedAll sitesMeasured
HTTP requests move to HTTPSHarden96%91%3,631
HSTS kept for at least a yearHarden35%34%3,820
TLS 1.3 negotiatedHarden93%91%3,847
Certificate has more than 14 days leftHarden99%99%3,847
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or lessHarden66%67%3,847
CAA records limit who can issue certificatesHarden13%13%3,846
DNSSEC signedHarden6.1%8%3,851
security.txt publishedHarden6.2%7.1%3,753
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectHarden37%39%3,853
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffHarden42%48%3,820
Framing restrictedHarden42%51%3,820
Content Security Policy presentHarden29%32%3,820
Referrer-Policy setHarden22%24%3,820
HTTP/2 negotiatedAccelerate94%90%3,847
HTTP/3 advertisedAccelerate36%37%3,820
HTML compressedAccelerate97%93%3,819
Static files cached for 30 days or moreAccelerate60%51%3,286
Modern image formats in useAccelerate44%40%3,732
Offscreen images lazy-loadedAccelerate72%62%3,664
No render-blocking scripts in <head>Accelerate42%48%3,820
robots.txt publishedEnable98%76%3,727
XML sitemap discoverableEnable87%70%3,812
Reachable over IPv6Enable51%48%3,852
Canonical URL declaredEnable89%68%3,820
Meta description writtenEnable95%84%3,820
Mobile viewport configuredEnable98%94%3,820
Structured data presentEnable76%51%3,820
Social preview image setEnable71%57%3,820
Page language declaredEnable97%90%3,820
At most one redirect to the homepageEnable>99%98%3,829
Nameservers spread across providersRecover11%10%3,846

News & Media profiles (1–500 of 2,817)

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