channelnewsasia.com

Readiness by lane

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

Priority fixes for channelnewsasia.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 600 seconds, short of the 30-day benchmark.

   Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.

   What to do: Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.

   60% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: The DMARC policy for channelnewsasia.com was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.

   What to do: 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.

   37% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 5 external scripts without async or defer.

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

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 198-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.

   What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.

   66% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What channelnewsasia.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.35% of peers
• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.42% of peers
• Framing restrictedFraming controls present.42% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-15

CDN or edge

Imperva, Acquia

Platform or framework

Drupal

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

640 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

104 (jpg 144, png 21, svg 15, webp 11, gif 1)

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.

All 31 checks

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