hindustantimes.com

Readiness by lane

Green: hindustantimes.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Priority fixes for hindustantimes.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 198-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.

   Why it matters: Under CA/Browser Forum Ballot SC-081v3, the maximum lifetime of public TLS certificates fell to 200 days on 15 March 2026 and falls to 100 days on 15 March 2027 and 47 days on 15 March 2029. Sites that renew by hand will need to renew far more often.

   What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.

   66% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · 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.

   On Next.js: Next.js documents nonce-based CSP with middleware.

   29% of News & Media peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

   Observed: The homepage response did not include X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.

   What to do: Send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff on all responses and make sure each file is served with the correct Content-Type.

   On Next.js: Add it in next.config.js headers().

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   CAA records limit who can issue certificates

   Observed: No CAA record was found for hindustantimes.com, so any public certificate authority may issue for it.

   What to do: Publish CAA records naming every CA you actually use, including the CAs your CDN uses for managed certificates. Add an iodef contact if you want reports.

   13% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What hindustantimes.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age.35% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.36% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.37% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.hindustantimes.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-24

CDN or edge

Akamai

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS

HSTS

max-age 730 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

965 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

163 (png 100, jpg 35, webp 28)

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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