history.com

Readiness by lane

Green: history.com. Thin bar: Entertainment & Video Streaming peer median.

Priority fixes for history.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script without async or defer.

   Why it matters: A plain <script src> in the head stops the browser from showing anything until that file has downloaded and run.

   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.

   On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.

   42% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.

   Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   HTTP/3 advertised

   Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.

   What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.

   34% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this.

   Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   CAA records limit who can issue certificates

   Observed: No CAA record was found for history.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.

   9.5% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

4. 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.

   5.6% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What history.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers use.

• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.12% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.18% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.31% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.history.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-05

CDN or edge

Fastly, Vercel

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

3 self-run or other nameserver domains

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

612 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

51 (jpg 4, png 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.

All 31 checks

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