dreamstime.com

Readiness by lane

Green: dreamstime.com. Thin bar: Stock Image & Video Libraries peer median.

Priority fixes for dreamstime.com

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 180 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.

   30% of Stock Image & Video Libraries 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 · Harden

   X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

   Observed: The homepage response did not include X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.

   What to do: Send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff on all responses and make sure each file is served with the correct Content-Type.

   56% of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   security.txt published

   Observed: No valid /.well-known/security.txt with a Contact field was returned.

   What to do: Publish /.well-known/security.txt with at least Contact and Expires fields, as RFC 9116 requires, and review it before it expires.

   25% of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Referrer-Policy set

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Referrer-Policy header.

   What to do: Send Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin unless you have a reason to share more.

   48% of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What dreamstime.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Stock Image & Video Libraries peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com, letsencrypt.org.12% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.21% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.29% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.dreamstime.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2027-01-05

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 180 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

393 KB, br

Images on homepage

61 (jpg 49, png 21, webp 3)

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

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