Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
ixl.com
ixl.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 1,516 Education & Online Learning sites.
- Readiness index
- 78/100
- Ahead of
- 90%
- Practices observed
- 21/30
- Popularity band
- Top 1K
Education & Online Learning median 61
of measured Education & Online Learning sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: ixl.com. Thin bar: Education & Online Learning peer median.
Enable
59/100
Peers 75
Harden
97/100
Peers 54
Accelerate
68/100
Peers 57
Recover
0/100
Peers 13
Priority fixes for ixl.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
65% of Education & Online Learning peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 2 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 11 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.
42% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 3 · Enable
Canonical URL declared
Observed: The homepage did not declare a canonical URL.
What to do: Add a self-referencing canonical link to every indexable page, using the final https:// URL.
62% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
Priority 4 · Accelerate
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
Observed: The homepage had 133 images and none used loading="lazy".
What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.
52% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
What ixl.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Education & Online Learning peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.5% of peers
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.8.1% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, comodoca.com, digicert.com and others.13% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.ixl.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-08
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 257 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 133 (svg 119, png 19, jpg 16, webp 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 9
Observed 21
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- 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
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 1
- robots.txt published
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: ixl.com. This profile covers configuration only.