legit.ng

Readiness by lane

Green: legit.ng. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Priority fixes for legit.ng

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script without async or defer.

   Why it matters: A plain <script src> in the head stops the browser from showing anything until that file has downloaded and run.

   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 News & Media peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.

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

2. 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

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.

   29% of News & Media 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 legit.ng, 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.

   13% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What legit.ng already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.22% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.35% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.36% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.legit.ng/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-01-25

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

407 KB, br

Images on homepage

89 (jpg 410, webp 326, svg 3, png 1, gif 1)

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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