Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
hirunews.lk
hirunews.lk's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 47/100
- Ahead of
- 3.5%
- Practices observed
- 12/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: hirunews.lk. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
67/100
Peers 89
Harden
43/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
38/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for hirunews.lk
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 7 days, 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.
60% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
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 · 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
Priority 4 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 127 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
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://hirunews.lk/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-18
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- Homepage HTML
- 259 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 127 (jpg 81, svg 31, png 10)
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 19
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Social preview image set
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 12
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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