Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
derstandard.de
derstandard.de's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 47/100
- Ahead of
- 3.5%
- Practices observed
- 11/28
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
3 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: derstandard.de. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
64/100
Peers 89
Harden
29/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 68
Recover
100/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for derstandard.de
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.
Why it matters: TLS 1.3 removes legacy cipher suites and completes the handshake in fewer round trips, so it is both safer and faster for new connections.
What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.
93% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Priority 2 · Harden
HSTS kept for at least a year
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.
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.
35% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Enable
Meta description written
Observed: The homepage had no meta description.
What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.
95% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent
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.
89% of News & Media peers do this.
What derstandard.de already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.11% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.derstandard.de/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
- TLS
- TLSv1.2, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 365-day validity, expiring 2027-01-29
- DNS operators
- 2 self-run or other nameserver domains
- Homepage HTML
- 51 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 1 (jpg 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.
All 31 checks
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 17
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
Observed 11
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Mobile viewport configured
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Not measured 3
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: derstandard.de. This profile covers configuration only.