Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
overleaf.com
overleaf.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 231 Programming & Software sites.
- Readiness index
- 77/100
- Ahead of
- 78%
- Practices observed
- 22/31
- Popularity band
- Top 5K
Programming & Software median 68
of measured Programming & Software sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: overleaf.com. Thin bar: Programming & Software peer median.
Enable
74/100
Peers 81
Harden
89/100
Peers 59
Accelerate
65/100
Peers 65
Recover
0/100
Peers 7
Priority fixes for overleaf.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
69% of Programming & Software peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 25 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.
42% of Programming & Software peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
Observed: The homepage had 25 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.
56% of Programming & Software peers do this.
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.
On Cloudflare: Enable HTTP/3 (with QUIC) under Speed > Optimization > Protocol Optimization.
40% of Programming & Software peers do this.
What overleaf.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Programming & Software peers use.
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, comodoca.com, digicert.com and others.23% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.24% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.32% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.overleaf.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-19
- CDN or edge
- Google edge
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 58 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 25 (svg 14, png 10, jpg 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
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- 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: overleaf.com. This profile covers configuration only.