Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
livemint.com
livemint.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 81/100
- Ahead of
- 92%
- Practices observed
- 22/30
- Popularity band
- Top 10K
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: livemint.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
100/100
Peers 89
Harden
71/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
83/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for livemint.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 5 images and none used WebP or AVIF.
Why it matters: WebP and AVIF are typically much smaller than JPEG or PNG at similar quality, and images are often the heaviest part of a page.
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 Next.js: The next/image component serves optimized formats automatically.
44% 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: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 2 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 198-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.
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 News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know
Priority 4 · 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 Next.js: Add it in next.config.js headers().
42% of News & Media peers do this.
What livemint.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazontrust.com, digicert.com, letsencrypt.org.13% 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.livemint.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-24
- CDN or edge
- Akamai
- Platform or framework
- Next.js
- DNS operators
- Akamai Edge DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 405 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 5 (png 5)
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 8
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
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Framing restricted
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- 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
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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