kia.com

Readiness by lane

Green: kia.com. Thin bar: Cars & Automotive peer median.

Priority fixes for kia.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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.

   41% of Cars & Automotive peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, short of the 30-day benchmark.

   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.

   55% of Cars & Automotive peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 82 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.

   On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.

   47% of Cars & Automotive peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: The DMARC policy for kia.com was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.

   What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.

   41% of Cars & Automotive peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What kia.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Cars & Automotive peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.8.9% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.30% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.kia.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Sectigo, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-15

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

Platform or framework

Adobe Experience Manager

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

408 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

82 (png 41, jpg 19, svg 1)

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

Stack and providers

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