cricket.com.au

Readiness by lane

Green: cricket.com.au. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.

Priority fixes for cricket.com.au

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

1. Priority 1 · 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.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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 Amazon CloudFront: Attach a response headers policy with Strict-Transport-Security to each distribution.

   27% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 49 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.

   35% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script 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.

   43% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 49 images and none used loading="lazy".

   What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.

   56% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: Lazy Loading Without Broken Pages

What cricket.com.au already does well

Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.2.7% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.32% of peers
• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.43% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.cricket.com.au/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-04-06

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront

DNS operators

Vercara UltraDNS

HSTS

max-age 0 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

275 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

49 (png 46, svg 2, 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.

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