citationmachine.net

Readiness by lane

Green: citationmachine.net. Thin bar: Web Tools peer median.

Priority fixes for citationmachine.net

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 1 days, 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.

   54% of Web Tools 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 · 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.

   On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.

   69% of Web Tools peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: The DMARC policy for citationmachine.net 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.

   23% of Web Tools peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   HTTP/3 advertised

   Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.

   What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.

   On Amazon CloudFront: Select HTTP/3 in the distribution's supported HTTP versions.

   56% of Web Tools peers do this.

   Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

What citationmachine.net already does well

Practices fewer than half of Web Tools peers use.

• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age.30% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.30% of peers
• Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.37% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.citationmachine.net/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2026-12-15

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 365 days

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

153 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

5 (webp 4, svg 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.

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