discovery.co.za

Readiness by lane

Green: discovery.co.za. Thin bar: Insurance & Financial Planning peer median.

Priority fixes for discovery.co.za

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (375 KB) was delivered without gzip, Brotli or zstd compression.

   Why it matters: Compression usually shrinks HTML several times over, so the first bytes of the page arrive sooner on slow connections.

   What to do: Enable Brotli or gzip for text responses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SVG) at the CDN or origin.

   89% of Insurance & Financial Planning peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: How to Set a Website Performance Budget That Teams Can Keep

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 hours, 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.

   51% of Insurance & Financial Planning peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 20 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.

   43% of Insurance & Financial Planning peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 20 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.

   67% of Insurance & Financial Planning peers do this.

   Guide: Lazy Loading Without Broken Pages

What discovery.co.za already does well

Practices fewer than half of Insurance & Financial Planning peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com, globalsign.com, pki.goog.15% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.discovery.co.za/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 147-day validity, expiring 2027-03-11

CDN or edge

Imperva

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

375 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

20 (jpg 16, png 4)

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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