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Category benchmark · Snapshot 23 October 2026

Social Media & Networking: website readiness

31 configuration checks across 193 Social Media & Networking sites from the SID website catalog, with 134 individual profiles for sites in the Chrome UX Report top 50K.

Sites measured
193

all popularity bands

Median readiness index
63/100

all sites: 64

Profiles
134

top-50K sites

Weakest lane
Recover

lowest weighted score

Readiness by lane

Enable

76/100

All sites 77

Harden

56/100

All sites 56

Accelerate

62/100

All sites 64

Recover

5/100

All sites 10

Biggest gaps for Social Media & Networking sites

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

  1. HSTS kept for at least a year

    38% 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. Modern image formats in use

    34% 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

  3. DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

    39% 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

    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

  5. security.txt published

    13% 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

  6. Content Security Policy present

    28% 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 Social Media & Networking sites lead

  • robots.txt published88% observedall sites 76%
  • Meta description written93% observedall sites 84%
  • Social preview image set64% observedall sites 57%
  • No render-blocking scripts in <head>54% observedall sites 48%

Stack mix

CDN and edge

Platform or framework

DNS operator

Certificate authority

Readiness leaders

Social Media & Networking 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. tumblr.com86/100
  2. wab2.com86/100
  3. thundr.com85/100
  4. snapchat.com84/100
  5. spacehey.com84/100
  6. groupizo.com83/100
  7. discord.com82/100
  8. chitchat.gg82/100
  9. getmysocial.com82/100
  10. pr.social82/100

All 31 checks for Social Media & Networking

CheckLaneObservedAll sitesMeasured
HTTP requests move to HTTPSHarden93%91%178
HSTS kept for at least a yearHarden38%34%190
TLS 1.3 negotiatedHarden86%91%193
Certificate has more than 14 days leftHarden96%99%193
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or lessHarden60%67%193
CAA records limit who can issue certificatesHarden11%13%193
DNSSEC signedHarden7.3%8%193
security.txt publishedHarden13%7.1%188
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectHarden39%39%193
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffHarden42%48%190
Framing restrictedHarden52%51%190
Content Security Policy presentHarden28%32%190
Referrer-Policy setHarden29%24%190
HTTP/2 negotiatedAccelerate88%90%193
HTTP/3 advertisedAccelerate35%37%190
HTML compressedAccelerate94%93%190
Static files cached for 30 days or moreAccelerate55%51%154
Modern image formats in useAccelerate34%40%128
Offscreen images lazy-loadedAccelerate47%62%104
No render-blocking scripts in <head>Accelerate54%48%190
robots.txt publishedEnable88%76%181
XML sitemap discoverableEnable64%70%193
Reachable over IPv6Enable47%48%193
Canonical URL declaredEnable62%68%190
Meta description writtenEnable93%84%190
Mobile viewport configuredEnable92%94%190
Structured data presentEnable38%51%190
Social preview image setEnable64%57%190
Page language declaredEnable86%90%190
At most one redirect to the homepageEnable99%98%191
Nameservers spread across providersRecover4.7%10%193

Social Media & Networking profiles

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