Readiness check · Harden lane · weight 2
Referrer-Policy set
The homepage sends a Referrer-Policy header.
- Observed on
- 24%
- Top 1K sites
- 27%
- Top 1M band
- 22%
- Not measured
- 11,311
of 28,784 measured sites
286 measured
4,672 measured
blocked, challenged or not applicable
Why it matters
It controls how much of your URLs (which can include search terms or IDs) is shared with other sites when visitors click away.
How to fix it
Send Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin unless you have a reason to share more.
How we check
The homepage sends a Referrer-Policy header.
Observed: Referrer-Policy present.
Not observed: No Referrer-Policy header.
Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
By popularity band
| Chrome UX Report band | Observed | Measured |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1K | 27% | 286 |
| Top 5K | 25% | 1,308 |
| Top 10K | 23% | 1,648 |
| Top 50K | 24% | 12,853 |
| Top 100K | 24% | 3,896 |
| Top 500K | 23% | 4,121 |
| Top 1M | 22% | 4,672 |
Categories most likely to do this
Categories least likely
By stack
- Astro46%
- Sitecore37%
- Next.js on Amazon CloudFront36%
- Next.js on Cloudflare36%
- Nuxt on Amazon CloudFront35%
- Next.js on Fastly34%
- Next.js34%
- Angular32%
- Adobe Experience Manager on Amazon CloudFront31%
- Next.js on Google edge30%
- Next.js on Vercel30%
- Nuxt on Cloudflare29%
- Adobe Experience Manager29%
- WordPress on Amazon CloudFront27%
- Nuxt26%
- WordPress on Cloudflare26%
- Drupal25%
- WordPress22%
- Webflow22%
- PrestaShop21%
- Drupal on Cloudflare19%
- Next.js on Akamai19%
- Magento / Adobe Commerce17%
- Blogger4.9%
- Shopify3.7%
By provider
- Azure Front Door/CDN46%
- Amazon CloudFront33%
- Vercel31%
- Fastly27%
- Imperva26%
- Google edge26%
- Cloudflare22%
- Akamai17%
Popular sites where we observed this
Sources and guides
Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for OwnersCheck your own site