evernote.com

Readiness by lane

Green: evernote.com. Thin bar: Work Productivity Apps peer median.

Priority fixes for evernote.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (371 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.

   92% of Work Productivity Apps 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 · 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.

   On Next.js: Add the header in the headers() option of next.config.js for all routes.

   42% of Work Productivity Apps peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   52% of Work Productivity Apps peers do this.

   Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page

4. Priority 4 · Enable

   Page language declared

   Observed: The homepage <html> element had no lang attribute.

   What to do: Set lang on the html element (for example lang="en") and on any sections in another language.

   88% of Work Productivity Apps peers do this.

   Guide: Website Accessibility Checklist for Owners

What evernote.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Work Productivity Apps peers use.

• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.34% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.38% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.40% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://evernote.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-03

CDN or edge

Google edge

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Google Cloud DNS

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

371 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

63 (svg 56, png 17)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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