Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
gigazine.net
gigazine.net's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 71/100
- Ahead of
- 61%
- Practices observed
- 20/30
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: gigazine.net. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 89
Harden
71/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
56/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for gigazine.net
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
87% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
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 Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.
35% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 46 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 Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.
44% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 4 · Accelerate
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
Observed: The homepage had 46 images and none used loading="lazy".
What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.
72% of News & Media peers do this.
What gigazine.net already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to comodoca.com, digicert.com, letsencrypt.org and others.13% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.36% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://gigazine.net/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-14
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 99 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 46 (png 26, jpg 18, 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.
All 31 checks
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 10
Observed 20
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- robots.txt published
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 1
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: gigazine.net. This profile covers configuration only.