Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
lemonde.fr
lemonde.fr's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 67/100
- Ahead of
- 46%
- Practices observed
- 18/30
- Popularity band
- Top 1K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: lemonde.fr. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
79/100
Peers 89
Harden
66/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for lemonde.fr
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.
Why it matters: TLS 1.3 removes legacy cipher suites and completes the handshake in fewer round trips, so it is both safer and faster for new connections.
What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.
93% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Priority 2 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
87% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 26 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.
44% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 4 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script 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 News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
What lemonde.fr 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 365-day max-age.35% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.37% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.lemonde.fr/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
- TLS
- TLSv1.2, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- GlobalSign, 396-day validity, expiring 2026-12-12
- CDN or edge
- Fastly
- DNS operators
- Google Cloud DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 326 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 26 (jpg 253, png 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
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 12
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Modern image formats in use
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 18
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- 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
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- 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
Not measured 1
- robots.txt published
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