Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
newsandstar.co.uk
newsandstar.co.uk's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 73/100
- Ahead of
- 69%
- Practices observed
- 21/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: newsandstar.co.uk. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
92/100
Peers 89
Harden
78/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
48/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for newsandstar.co.uk
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 days, short of the 30-day benchmark.
Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.
What to do: Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.
60% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 160 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 3 · 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.
42% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 4 · Enable
Social preview image set
Observed: The homepage had no og:image, so shared links may show without a preview image.
What to do: Add Open Graph tags, including og:image with a 1200 x 630 image.
71% of News & Media peers do this.
What newsandstar.co.uk already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.22% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age.35% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 181-day validity, expiring 2027-03-04
- CDN or edge
- Azure Front Door/CDN
- DNS operators
- Azure DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 512 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 160 (jpg 450, png 3)
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 10
Observed 21
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: newsandstar.co.uk. This profile covers configuration only.