Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026

latimes.com

latimes.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.

Readiness index: 80/100
Ahead of: 90%
Practices observed: 22/31
Popularity band: Top 10K

Measured 2026-10-23 12:01:02 UTC from one location. How we measure

Readiness by lane

Green: latimes.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Enable

95/100

Peers 89

Harden

71/100

Peers 56

Accelerate

85/100

Peers 68

Recover

0/100

Peers 11

Priority fixes for latimes.com

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

Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 900 seconds, 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.
60% of News & Media 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
Priority 2 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from Amazon had a 197-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.
66% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
Priority 3 · Harden
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Observed: The homepage response did not include X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.
What to do: Send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff on all responses and make sure each file is served with the correct Content-Type.
On Amazon CloudFront: Enable it in a response headers policy (security headers section).
42% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners
Priority 4 · Harden
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
Observed: No CAA record was found for latimes.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.
13% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What latimes.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age.35% of peers
HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.36% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked: https://www.latimes.com/
Homepage response: HTTP 200
TLS: TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
Certificate: Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-04-30
CDN or edge: Amazon CloudFront
DNS operators: Amazon Route 53
HSTS: max-age 730 days
DMARC policy: p=quarantine
Homepage HTML: 1,664 KB, gzip
Images on homepage: 203 (jpg 2011, png 274, gif 26, svg 19)

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.

Amazon CloudFront (cdn and edge platform)Amazon Route 53 (dns operator)Amazon (certificate authority)Service guide: AWS (Amazon Web Services)

All 31 checks

Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works

Not observed 9

Observed 22

HTTP requests move to HTTPS
HSTS kept for at least a year
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Certificate has more than 14 days left
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Framing restricted
Content Security Policy present
HTTP/2 negotiated
HTTP/3 advertised
HTML compressed
Modern image formats in use
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
robots.txt published
XML sitemap discoverable
Canonical URL declared
Meta description written
Mobile viewport configured
Structured data present
Social preview image set
Page language declared
At most one redirect to the homepage

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