Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026

eversource.com

eversource.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 132 Energy, Electricity & Gas sites.

Readiness index: 53/100
Ahead of: 24%
Practices observed: 13/31
Popularity band: Top 50K

Measured 2026-10-23 11:42:08 UTC from one location. How we measure

Readiness by lane

Green: eversource.com. Thin bar: Energy, Electricity & Gas peer median.

Enable

79/100

Peers 74

Harden

58/100

Peers 65

Accelerate

20/100

Peers 51

Recover

0/100

Peers 17

Priority fixes for eversource.com

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

Priority 1 · Accelerate
HTTP/2 negotiated
Observed: The TLS handshake selected http/1.1 instead of HTTP/2.
Why it matters: HTTP/2 sends many files over one connection, which speeds up pages with lots of images, styles and scripts.
What to do: Enable HTTP/2 on your CDN or server. Most CDNs do this by default.
72% of Energy, Electricity & Gas peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners
Priority 2 · 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.
41% of Energy, Electricity & Gas peers do this.
Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 11 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.
36% of Energy, Electricity & Gas peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 4 · Harden
Framing restricted
Observed: The homepage did not send frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, so other sites may frame it.
What to do: Send Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self' (or a list of trusted origins). X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN covers older browsers.
75% of Energy, Electricity & Gas peers do this.
Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What we saw

Homepage checked: https://www.eversource.com/
Homepage response: HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
TLS: TLSv1.3, http/1.1
Certificate: DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-05-08
DNS operators: Akamai Edge DNS
HSTS: max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload
DMARC policy: p=reject
Homepage HTML: 199 KB, gzip
Images on homepage: 11 (jpg 2, 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.

Akamai Edge DNS (dns operator)DigiCert (certificate authority)Service guide: Akamai

All 31 checks

Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works

Not observed 18

Observed 13

HTTP requests move to HTTPS
HSTS kept for at least a year
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Certificate has more than 14 days left
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
HTML compressed
robots.txt published
XML sitemap discoverable
Canonical URL declared
Meta description written
Mobile viewport configured
Page language declared
At most one redirect to the homepage

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