Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
paypal.com
paypal.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 157 Online Payment & Wallets sites.
- Readiness index
- 92/100
- Ahead of
- 98%
- Practices observed
- 24/28
- Popularity band
- Top 1K
Online Payment & Wallets median 64
of measured Online Payment & Wallets sites
3 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: paypal.com. Thin bar: Online Payment & Wallets peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 72
Harden
92/100
Peers 63
Accelerate
83/100
Peers 61
Recover
100/100
Peers 6
Priority fixes for paypal.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
HTTP/3 advertised
Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.
Why it matters: HTTP/3 runs over QUIC, which copes better with lossy mobile networks and recovers faster when a connection changes.
What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.
35% of Online Payment & Wallets peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 198-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.
44% of Online Payment & Wallets peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
Referrer-Policy set
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Referrer-Policy header.
What to do: Send Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin unless you have a reason to share more.
37% of Online Payment & Wallets peers do this.
Priority 4 · Enable
Reachable over IPv6
Observed: No IPv6 (AAAA) address was published for www.paypal.com.
What to do: Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.
28% of Online Payment & Wallets peers do this.
What paypal.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Online Payment & Wallets peers use.
- Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.6.4% of peers
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.6.6% of peers
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.8.3% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.paypal.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-03-14
- CDN or edge
- Fastly
- DNS operators
- Vercara UltraDNS, plus 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 355 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 2 (jpg 15)
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 4
Observed 24
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- 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
- Nameservers spread across providers
Not measured 3
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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