Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
drugcomparison.co.uk
drugcomparison.co.uk's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 469 Business Tools sites.
- Readiness index
- 51/100
- Ahead of
- 21%
- Practices observed
- 13/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Business Tools median 63
of measured Business Tools sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: drugcomparison.co.uk. Thin bar: Business Tools peer median.
Enable
56/100
Peers 75
Harden
49/100
Peers 57
Accelerate
50/100
Peers 60
Recover
0/100
Peers 6
Priority fixes for drugcomparison.co.uk
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
HSTS kept for at least a year
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.
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.
45% of Business Tools peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: The DMARC policy for drugcomparison.co.uk was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.
What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.
50% of Business Tools peers do this.
Priority 3 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
61% of Business Tools peers do this.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 4 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, 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.
42% of Business Tools peers do this.
What drugcomparison.co.uk already does well
Practices fewer than half of Business Tools peers use.
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.46% of peers
- Framing restrictedFraming controls present.48% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.drugcomparison.co.uk/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-30
- DNS operators
- IONOS DNS
- DMARC policy
- p=none
- Homepage HTML
- 1,327 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 38 (jpg 31, png 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.
All 31 checks
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 18
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 13
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- Framing restricted
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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