pets4homes.co.uk

Readiness by lane

Green: pets4homes.co.uk. Thin bar: Pet Services peer median.

Priority fixes for pets4homes.co.uk

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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 Fastly: Add the header in VCL or a header rule as described in Fastly's HSTS guide.

   30% of Pet Services peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   CAA records limit who can issue certificates

   Observed: No CAA record was found for pets4homes.co.uk, so any public certificate authority may issue for it.

   What to do: Publish CAA records naming every CA you actually use, including the CAs your CDN uses for managed certificates. Add an iodef contact if you want reports.

   On Cloudflare: Cloudflare documents which CAs its managed certificates need; include them in your CAA records.

   19% of Pet Services peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   DNSSEC signed

   Observed: No DS record was found for pets4homes.co.uk at its parent zone, so its DNS answers are not DNSSEC-signed.

   What to do: Enable DNSSEC at your DNS provider, then add the DS record at your registrar. Plan provider moves carefully: a stale DS record can make the domain fail to resolve.

   On Cloudflare: Enable DNSSEC in DNS > Settings and add the DS record at the registrar.

   15% of Pet Services peers do this.

   Guide: Website Uptime Readiness: Prepare Before Traffic Arrives

4. Priority 4 · Enable

   Reachable over IPv6

   Observed: No IPv6 (AAAA) address was published for www.pets4homes.co.uk.

   What to do: Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.

   On Cloudflare: Cloudflare offers IPv6 compatibility for proxied hostnames; check the setting in Network.

   35% of Pet Services peers do this.

   Guide: How to Evaluate Web Hosting Performance

What pets4homes.co.uk already does well

Practices fewer than half of Pet Services peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.13% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.18% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.30% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-28

CDN or edge

Fastly

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Cloudflare

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

158 KB, br

Images on homepage

26 (svg 6, webp 2, jpg 1, gif 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

Compare with other Pet Services sites

• amomeupet.org75
• petsmart.ca76
• petsmart.com79
• supertails.com76
• timetopet.com82

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