Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026

nownews.com

nownews.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.

Readiness index: 71/100
Ahead of: 61%
Practices observed: 20/31
Popularity band: Top 10K

Measured 2026-10-23 12:10:20 UTC from one location. How we measure

Readiness by lane

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

Enable

95/100

Peers 89

Harden

65/100

Peers 56

Accelerate

63/100

Peers 68

Recover

0/100

Peers 11

Priority fixes for nownews.com

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 no max-age, 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.
Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners
Priority 2 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: The DMARC policy for nownews.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.
Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners
Priority 3 · 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.
42% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 4 · Accelerate
HTTP/3 advertised
Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.
What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.
36% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

What nownews.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.35% of peers
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.42% of peers
Framing restrictedFraming controls present.42% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked: https://www.nownews.com/
Homepage response: HTTP 200
TLS: TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
Certificate: Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-13
DNS operators: Google Cloud DNS
HSTS: max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
DMARC policy: p=none
Homepage HTML: 186 KB, br
Images on homepage: 81 (webp 47, jpg 25, svg 7, png 2)

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.

Google Cloud DNS (dns operator)Let's Encrypt (certificate authority)Service guide: Google Cloud

All 31 checks

Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works

Not observed 11

Observed 20

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
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Framing restricted
HTTP/2 negotiated
HTML compressed
Modern image formats in use
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
robots.txt published
XML sitemap discoverable
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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