Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
malwarebytes.com
malwarebytes.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 46 Passwords & Cybersecurity sites.
- Readiness index
- 88/100
- Ahead of
- 89%
- Practices observed
- 26/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Passwords & Cybersecurity median 76
of measured Passwords & Cybersecurity sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: malwarebytes.com. Thin bar: Passwords & Cybersecurity peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 82
Harden
94/100
Peers 69
Accelerate
78/100
Peers 64
Recover
0/100
Peers 2
Priority fixes for malwarebytes.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
Content Security Policy present
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.
Why it matters: A CSP limits where scripts, styles and frames can load from, which reduces the impact of injected or compromised third-party code.
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.
59% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know
Priority 2 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 7 external scripts 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.
On WordPress: Since WordPress 6.3, scripts can be registered with a defer or async loading strategy.
37% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 3 · Accelerate
HTTP/3 advertised
Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.
What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.
33% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
Priority 4 · Enable
Reachable over IPv6
Observed: No IPv6 (AAAA) address was published for www.malwarebytes.com.
What to do: Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.
43% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
What malwarebytes.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers use.
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.24% of peers
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.29% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazonaws.com, amazontrust.com and others.44% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.malwarebytes.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-01
- CDN or edge
- WordPress VIP
- Platform or framework
- WordPress
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 1,035 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 33 (png 53, svg 17, webp 4)
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 5
Observed 26
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- 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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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: malwarebytes.com. This profile covers configuration only.