newsinlevels.com

Readiness by lane

Green: newsinlevels.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Priority fixes for newsinlevels.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   What to do: Send Strict-Transport-Security on HTTPS responses. Start with a short max-age (for example 300 seconds), confirm every subdomain works over HTTPS, then raise it in steps to 31536000. Add includeSubDomains only when all subdomains are HTTPS. HSTS preload is optional and hard to undo; hstspreload.org itself does not recommend it by default.

   35% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script 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.

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   CAA records limit who can issue certificates

   Observed: No CAA record was found for newsinlevels.com, so any public certificate authority may issue for it.

   What to do: Publish CAA records naming every CA you actually use, including the CAs your CDN uses for managed certificates. Add an iodef contact if you want reports.

   13% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What newsinlevels.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.11% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.36% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.newsinlevels.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-11-10

Platform or framework

WordPress

DNS operators

2 self-run or other nameserver domains

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

120 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

21 (jpg 50, avif 40, png 7, webp 6)

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

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