contactout.com

Readiness by lane

Green: contactout.com. Thin bar: Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peer median.

Priority fixes for contactout.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

   Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.

   Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.

   What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.

   77% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 0 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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.

   On Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.

   36% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   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.

   On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.

   48% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

4. 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.

   71% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.

   Guide: Canonical Tags: A Decision Guide for Duplicate URLs

What contactout.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers use.

• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.30% of peers
• Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.38% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.45% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://contactout.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-04

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 0 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

146 KB, br

Images on homepage

135 (svg 119, png 19, webp 5)

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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