newspao.gr

Readiness by lane

Green: newspao.gr. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.

Priority fixes for newspao.gr

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.

   On Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.

   27% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games 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 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: No DMARC record was found at _dmarc.newspao.gr.

   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.

   32% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 5 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.

   43% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Content Security Policy present

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.

   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.

   18% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know

What newspao.gr already does well

Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.

• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.16% of peers
• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.32% of peers
• Framing restrictedFraming controls present.34% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://newspao.gr/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-11-29

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

Platform or framework

WordPress

DNS operators

Cloudflare

Homepage HTML

120 KB, br

Images on homepage

49 (jpg 87, png 41, webp 24, gif 1)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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