flightstats.com

Readiness by lane

Green: flightstats.com. Thin bar: Data & Analytics peer median.

Priority fixes for flightstats.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   TLS 1.3 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.

   Why it matters: TLS 1.3 removes legacy cipher suites and completes the handshake in fewer round trips, so it is both safer and faster for new connections.

   What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.

   91% of Data & Analytics peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · 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.

   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.

   34% of Data & Analytics peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. 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.

   On WordPress: WordPress has generated a basic sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml since 5.5; SEO plugins can replace it.

   63% of Data & Analytics peers do this.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 14 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.

   On WordPress: WordPress has supported WebP uploads since 5.8 and AVIF since 6.5; image plugins or the host can convert existing images.

   31% of Data & Analytics peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

What flightstats.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Data & Analytics peers use.

• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.24% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.33% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.38% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.flightstats.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.2, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-05-05

Platform or framework

WordPress

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 180 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

282 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

14 (jpg 1, svg 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.

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