Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
patreon.com
patreon.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 48 Crowdfunding Platforms sites.
- Readiness index
- 72/100
- Ahead of
- 63%
- Practices observed
- 21/31
- Popularity band
- Top 5K
Crowdfunding Platforms median 67
of measured Crowdfunding Platforms sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: patreon.com. Thin bar: Crowdfunding Platforms peer median.
Enable
82/100
Peers 80
Harden
66/100
Peers 62
Accelerate
75/100
Peers 65
Recover
0/100
Peers 6
Priority fixes for patreon.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 0 seconds, 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.
On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.
60% of Crowdfunding Platforms peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Harden
HSTS kept for at least a year
Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 30 days, below the one-year benchmark.
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.
35% of Crowdfunding Platforms peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
Framing restricted
Observed: The homepage did not send frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, so other sites may frame it.
What to do: Send Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self' (or a list of trusted origins). X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN covers older browsers.
On Cloudflare: Add the header with a response header transform rule.
65% of Crowdfunding Platforms peers do this.
Priority 4 · Enable
Canonical URL declared
Observed: The homepage did not declare a canonical URL.
What to do: Add a self-referencing canonical link to every indexable page, using the final https:// URL.
60% of Crowdfunding Platforms peers do this.
What patreon.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Crowdfunding Platforms peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.6.4% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.31% of peers
- Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.40% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.patreon.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-17
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- Platform or framework
- Next.js
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 30 days
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 328 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 34 (jpg 152, png 44, webp 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 10
Observed 21
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- 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: patreon.com. This profile covers configuration only.