Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
hcaptcha.com
hcaptcha.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 46 Passwords & Cybersecurity sites.
- Readiness index
- 81/100
- Ahead of
- 72%
- Practices observed
- 23/29
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Passwords & Cybersecurity median 76
of measured Passwords & Cybersecurity sites
2 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: hcaptcha.com. Thin bar: Passwords & Cybersecurity peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 82
Harden
92/100
Peers 69
Accelerate
58/100
Peers 64
Recover
0/100
Peers 2
Priority fixes for hcaptcha.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 120 seconds, short of the 30-day benchmark.
Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.
What to do: Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.
On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.
58% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 126 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.
55% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 3 · 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.
37% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 4 · Harden
security.txt published
Observed: No valid /.well-known/security.txt with a Contact field was returned.
What to do: Publish /.well-known/security.txt with at least Contact and Expires fields, as RFC 9116 requires, and review it before it expires.
On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Security Center can serve a security.txt file for the zone.
29% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
What hcaptcha.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers use.
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.24% of peers
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.33% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.46% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.hcaptcha.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-13
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- Platform or framework
- Webflow
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 100 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 126 (png 108, svg 44)
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 6
Observed 23
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- DNSSEC signed
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- 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 2
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
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