Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026

championat.com

championat.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.

Readiness index: 47/100
Ahead of: 3.5%
Practices observed: 10/28
Popularity band: Top 5K

Measured 2026-10-23 11:50:52 UTC from one location. How we measure

Readiness by lane

Green: championat.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Enable

59/100

Peers 89

Harden

29/100

Peers 56

Accelerate

82/100

Peers 68

Recover

0/100

Peers 11

Priority fixes for championat.com

Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.

Priority 1 · Harden
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.
Why it matters: TLS 1.3 removes legacy cipher suites and completes the handshake in fewer round trips, so it is both safer and faster for new connections.
What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.
93% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
Priority 2 · Harden
HSTS kept for at least a year
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.
What to do: 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.
35% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
Priority 3 · Enable
Meta description written
Observed: The homepage had no meta description.
What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.
95% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent
Priority 4 · Enable
Canonical URL declared
Observed: The homepage did not declare a canonical URL.
What to do: Add a self-referencing canonical link to every indexable page, using the final https:// URL.
89% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Canonical Tags: A Decision Guide for Duplicate URLs

What championat.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.42% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked: https://www.championat.com/
Homepage response: HTTP 200
TLS: TLSv1.2, HTTP/2
Certificate: GlobalSign, 396-day validity, expiring 2027-02-14
DNS operators: 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
DMARC policy: p=none
Homepage HTML: 1 KB, gzip
Images on homepage: 0

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

Seen in the homepage response, certificate and DNS. Provider pages compare how their customers configure the same checks.

GlobalSign (certificate authority)

All 31 checks

Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works

Not observed 18

Observed 10

HTTP requests move to HTTPS
Certificate has more than 14 days left
HTTP/2 negotiated
Static files cached for 30 days or more
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
robots.txt published
XML sitemap discoverable
Mobile viewport configured
Page language declared
At most one redirect to the homepage

Not measured 3

HTML compressed
Modern image formats in use
Offscreen images lazy-loaded

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