Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
msn.com
msn.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 63/100
- Ahead of
- 30%
- Practices observed
- 15/28
- Popularity band
- Top 1K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
3 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: msn.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
38/100
Peers 89
Harden
72/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
70/100
Peers 68
Recover
100/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for msn.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.
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. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 2 · 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 News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent
Priority 3 · Enable
Canonical URL declared
Observed: The homepage did not declare a canonical URL.
What to do: Add a self-referencing canonical link to every indexable page, using the final https:// URL.
89% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: The DMARC policy for msn.com was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.
What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.
37% of News & Media peers do this.
What msn.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across Azure DNS and NS1.11% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com, globalsign.com, microsoft.com.13% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.msn.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Microsoft Corporation, 360-day validity, expiring 2027-02-05
- CDN or edge
- Akamai, Azure Front Door/CDN
- DNS operators
- Azure DNS, NS1
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=none
- Homepage HTML
- 46 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.
All 31 checks
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 13
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
Observed 15
- 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
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Mobile viewport configured
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Not measured 3
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: msn.com. This profile covers configuration only.