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Category benchmark · Snapshot 23 October 2026

Ratings & Reviews: website readiness

31 configuration checks across 190 Ratings & Reviews sites from the SID website catalog, with 119 individual profiles for sites in the Chrome UX Report top 50K.

Sites measured
190

all popularity bands

Median readiness index
66/100

all sites: 64

Profiles
119

top-50K sites

Weakest lane
Recover

lowest weighted score

Readiness by lane

Enable

82/100

All sites 77

Harden

54/100

All sites 56

Accelerate

68/100

All sites 64

Recover

6/100

All sites 10

Biggest gaps for Ratings & Reviews sites

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

  1. HSTS kept for at least a year

    31% 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

    4.3% 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

    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

  4. Modern image formats in use

    37% 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

  5. CAA records limit who can issue certificates

    11% 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

  6. Content Security Policy present

    23% 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

Where Ratings & Reviews sites lead

  • robots.txt published97% observedall sites 76%
  • Static files cached for 30 days or more64% observedall sites 51%
  • Meta description written96% observedall sites 84%
  • Canonical URL declared78% observedall sites 68%

Stack mix

CDN and edge

Platform or framework

DNS operator

Certificate authority

Readiness leaders

Ratings & Reviews 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. pocket-lint.com89/100
  2. pepper.pl87/100
  3. tomsguide.com87/100
  4. techradar.com87/100
  5. whathifi.com87/100
  6. gamberorosso.it86/100
  7. digit.in86/100
  8. loox.io84/100
  9. scamadviser.com83/100
  10. which.co.uk82/100

All 31 checks for Ratings & Reviews

CheckLaneObservedAll sitesMeasured
HTTP requests move to HTTPSHarden94%91%178
HSTS kept for at least a yearHarden31%34%188
TLS 1.3 negotiatedHarden88%91%190
Certificate has more than 14 days leftHarden98%99%190
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or lessHarden64%67%190
CAA records limit who can issue certificatesHarden11%13%190
DNSSEC signedHarden8.9%8%190
security.txt publishedHarden4.3%7.1%186
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectHarden37%39%190
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffHarden40%48%188
Framing restrictedHarden47%51%188
Content Security Policy presentHarden23%32%188
Referrer-Policy setHarden26%24%188
HTTP/2 negotiatedAccelerate94%90%190
HTTP/3 advertisedAccelerate40%37%188
HTML compressedAccelerate96%93%188
Static files cached for 30 days or moreAccelerate64%51%157
Modern image formats in useAccelerate37%40%179
Offscreen images lazy-loadedAccelerate65%62%175
No render-blocking scripts in <head>Accelerate51%48%188
robots.txt publishedEnable97%76%185
XML sitemap discoverableEnable72%70%187
Reachable over IPv6Enable41%48%190
Canonical URL declaredEnable78%68%188
Meta description writtenEnable96%84%188
Mobile viewport configuredEnable93%94%188
Structured data presentEnable59%51%188
Social preview image setEnable63%57%188
Page language declaredEnable90%90%188
At most one redirect to the homepageEnable98%98%189
Nameservers spread across providersRecover6.3%10%189

Ratings & Reviews profiles

Readiness index shown next to each site.