Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
edx.org
edx.org's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 1,516 Education & Online Learning sites.
- Readiness index
- 79/100
- Ahead of
- 92%
- Practices observed
- 23/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Education & Online Learning median 61
of measured Education & Online Learning sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: edx.org. Thin bar: Education & Online Learning peer median.
Enable
92/100
Peers 75
Harden
85/100
Peers 54
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 57
Recover
0/100
Peers 13
Priority fixes for edx.org
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 52 images and none used WebP or AVIF.
Why it matters: WebP and AVIF are typically much smaller than JPEG or PNG at similar quality, and images are often the heaviest part of a page.
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.
On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.
32% of Education & Online Learning peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 2 · 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.
On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.
42% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 3 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from Amazon had a 197-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.
60% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
Priority 4 · Enable
Social preview image set
Observed: The homepage had no og:image, so shared links may show without a preview image.
What to do: Add Open Graph tags, including og:image with a 1200 x 630 image.
52% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
What edx.org already does well
Practices fewer than half of Education & Online Learning peers use.
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, comodoca.com, digicert.com and others.13% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.25% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.27% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.edx.org/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-03-07
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, WP Engine
- Platform or framework
- Next.js
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 2,403 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 52 (svg 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
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 8
Observed 23
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: edx.org. This profile covers configuration only.