kapwing.com

Readiness by lane

Green: kapwing.com. Thin bar: Design & Content Creation peer median.

Priority fixes for kapwing.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 5 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.

   57% of Design & Content Creation peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 1 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.

   On Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.

   37% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   Content Security Policy present

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.

   What to do: Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.

   On Next.js: Next.js documents nonce-based CSP with middleware.

   29% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.

   Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   CAA records limit who can issue certificates

   Observed: No CAA record was found for kapwing.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.

   On Cloudflare: Cloudflare documents which CAs its managed certificates need; include them in your CAA records.

   17% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What kapwing.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Design & Content Creation peers use.

• DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.8.2% of peers
• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.39% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.41% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.kapwing.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-10

CDN or edge

Cloudflare, Google edge

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 1 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

208 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

23 (webp 23)

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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