hotstar.com

Readiness by lane

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

Priority fixes for hotstar.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   robots.txt published

   Observed: No robots.txt file was returned at the site root.

   Why it matters: robots.txt is where crawlers look first for crawl rules and sitemap locations. Without it, they assume everything is open.

   What to do: Publish /robots.txt with any crawl rules you need and a Sitemap: line pointing to your XML sitemap.

   87% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

   Guide: Robots.txt Guide: Control Crawling Without Hiding Mistakes

2. Priority 2 · 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.

   71% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this.

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

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.

   31% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · 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

What hotstar.com already does well

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

• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.31% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.42% of peers
• Framing restrictedFraming controls present.43% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.hotstar.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-02-25

CDN or edge

Akamai

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

42 KB, br

Images on homepage

1 (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.

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