Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
notthebee.com
notthebee.com'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
- 22/31
- 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: notthebee.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 89
Harden
88/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
38/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for notthebee.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
robots.txt published
Observed: No robots.txt file was returned at the site root.
Why it matters: robots.txt is where crawlers look first for crawl rules and sitemap locations. Without it, they assume everything is open.
What to do: Publish /robots.txt with any crawl rules you need and a Sitemap: line pointing to your XML sitemap.
98% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: Robots.txt Guide: Control Crawling Without Hiding Mistakes
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 4 hours, short of the 30-day benchmark.
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.
On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.
60% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 27 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.
On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.
44% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 4 · Accelerate
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
Observed: The homepage had 27 images and none used loading="lazy".
What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.
72% of News & Media peers do this.
What notthebee.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.6.1% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to comodoca.com, digicert.com, letsencrypt.org and others.13% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.22% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://notthebee.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-15
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 129 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 27 (jpg 24, png 2, svg 1)
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 9
Observed 22
- 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
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- 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: notthebee.com. This profile covers configuration only.