Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026

lowes.com

lowes.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 5,718 E-Commerce & Marketplaces sites.

Readiness index: 50/100
Ahead of: 5.5%
Practices observed: 11/27
Popularity band: Top 1K

Measured 2026-10-23 11:25:16 UTC from one location. How we measure

Readiness by lane

Green: lowes.com. Thin bar: E-Commerce & Marketplaces peer median.

Enable

9/100

Peers 86

Harden

62/100

Peers 60

Accelerate

83/100

Peers 69

Recover

0/100

Peers 11

Priority fixes for lowes.com

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

Priority 1 · Harden
HTTP requests move to HTTPS
Observed: A request to http://www.lowes.com/ was not redirected to HTTPS.
Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.
What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.
96% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
Priority 2 · Enable
Mobile viewport configured
Observed: The homepage had no viewport meta tag, so phones may render it zoomed out.
What to do: Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> and check the layout on small screens.
98% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.
Guide: Responsive Web Design Checklist for Real Devices
Priority 3 · 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 E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 4 · Enable
Meta description written
Observed: The homepage had no meta description.
What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.
95% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.
Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

What lowes.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers use.

CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to sectigo.com.16% of peers
HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age.32% of peers
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked: https://www.lowes.com/
Homepage response: HTTP 200
TLS: TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
Certificate: Sectigo, 396-day validity, expiring 2027-03-05
CDN or edge: Akamai
DNS operators: Akamai Edge DNS
HSTS: max-age 365 days
DMARC policy: p=reject
Homepage HTML: 5 KB, gzip
Images on homepage: 0

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.

Akamai (cdn and edge platform)Akamai Edge DNS (dns operator)Sectigo (certificate authority)Service guide: Akamai

All 31 checks

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

Not observed 16

Observed 11

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
Content Security Policy present
HTTP/2 negotiated
HTML compressed
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
At most one redirect to the homepage

Not measured 4

Static files cached for 30 days or more
Modern image formats in use
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
robots.txt published

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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: lowes.com. This profile covers configuration only.

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