gradescope.com

Readiness by lane

Green: gradescope.com. Thin bar: Education & Online Learning peer median.

Priority fixes for gradescope.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (206 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.

   90% of Education & Online Learning 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 · Harden

   TLS 1.3 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.

   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.

   86% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   34% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · 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.

   65% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

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

What gradescope.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Education & Online Learning peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, letsencrypt.org.13% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.27% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.36% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.gradescope.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.2, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-01-28

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

206 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

46 (jpg 35, png 6, svg 5)

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

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