golem.de

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Green: golem.de. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Priority fixes for golem.de

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (18 KB) was delivered without gzip, Brotli or zstd compression.

   Why it matters: Compression usually shrinks HTML several times over, so the first bytes of the page arrive sooner on slow connections.

   What to do: Enable Brotli or gzip for text responses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SVG) at the CDN or origin.

   97% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: How to Set a Website Performance Budget That Teams Can Keep

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   HTTP/2 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS handshake selected HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP/2.

   What to do: Enable HTTP/2 on your CDN or server. Most CDNs do this by default.

   94% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 182 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.

   35% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · Enable

   Meta description written

   Observed: The homepage had no meta description.

   What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.

   95% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

What golem.de already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.6.2% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.42% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.golem.de/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.3

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-02-24

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 182 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

18 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

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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