freelancer.com

Readiness by lane

Green: freelancer.com. Thin bar: Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peer median.

Priority fixes for freelancer.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 30 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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 Fastly: Add the header in VCL or a header rule as described in Fastly's HSTS guide.

   36% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   HTTP/3 advertised

   Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.

   What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.

   34% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.

   Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   Content Security Policy present

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.

   What to do: Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.

   30% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.

   Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from GlobalSign nv-sa had a 198-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.

   56% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What freelancer.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers use.

• Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.38% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.45% of peers
• Framing restrictedFraming controls present.47% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.freelancer.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

GlobalSign, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-01-19

CDN or edge

Fastly

Platform or framework

Angular

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 30 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

1,070 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

78 (svg 64, jpg 59, png 55)

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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