howtopronounce.com

Readiness by lane

Green: howtopronounce.com. Thin bar: Literary & Knowledge peer median.

Priority fixes for howtopronounce.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.

   92% of Literary & Knowledge 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.

   69% of Literary & Knowledge 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: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 0 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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.

   28% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 2 external scripts 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.

   48% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

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

What howtopronounce.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Literary & Knowledge peers use.

• Structured data presentJSON-LD structured data found.46% of peers
• Offscreen images lazy-loadedNative lazy loading in use.48% of peers
• Static files cached for 30 days or moreLong-lived caching on static files.49% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.howtopronounce.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

SSL2BUY EMEA LLC, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-12-15

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 0 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

407 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

15 (png 7, gif 4, jpg 3)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

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