foxsports.com.au

Readiness by lane

Green: foxsports.com.au. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.

Priority fixes for foxsports.com.au

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HTTP requests move to HTTPS

   Observed: A request to http://www.foxsports.com.au/ was not redirected to HTTPS.

   Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.

   What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.

   On WordPress: Set both WordPress Address and Site Address to https:// in Settings > General, then add the server or CDN redirect.

   92% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.

   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 0 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.

   27% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 80 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.

   35% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · 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 WordPress: Since WordPress 6.3, scripts can be registered with a defer or async loading strategy.

   43% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

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

What foxsports.com.au already does well

Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.

• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.18% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.32% of peers
• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.32% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.foxsports.com.au/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 2 redirects

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-12-30

CDN or edge

Akamai, WordPress VIP

Platform or framework

WordPress

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS

HSTS

max-age 0 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

667 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

80 (jpg 9, png 2)

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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