nst.com.my

Readiness by lane

Green: nst.com.my. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.

Priority fixes for nst.com.my

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 30 images and none used loading="lazy".

   Why it matters: Images below the fold are only downloaded when the visitor scrolls near them, which frees bandwidth for what is visible first.

   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. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.

   Guide: Lazy Loading Without Broken Pages

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.

   42% of News & Media peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Enable

   Structured data present

   Observed: The homepage had no JSON-LD structured data.

   What to do: Add JSON-LD for your organization and main content types, then test it with Google's Rich Results Test.

   76% of News & Media peers do this.

   Guide: Structured Data Basics for Website Owners

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.

   29% of News & Media peers do this.

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

What nst.com.my already does well

Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.

• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.22% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.35% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.36% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.nst.com.my/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-13

CDN or edge

Cloudflare, Google edge

DNS operators

Google Cloud DNS

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

59 KB, br

Images on homepage

30 (png 24, svg 5, webp 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.

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