Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
pickdailynews.com
pickdailynews.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 51/100
- Ahead of
- 6%
- Practices observed
- 14/30
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: pickdailynews.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 89
Harden
48/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
22/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for pickdailynews.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
HTTP/2 negotiated
Observed: The TLS handshake selected http/1.1 instead of HTTP/2.
Why it matters: HTTP/2 sends many files over one connection, which speeds up pages with lots of images, styles and scripts.
What to do: Enable HTTP/2 on your CDN or server. Most CDNs do this by default.
94% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 hours, short of the 30-day benchmark.
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.
60% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
HSTS kept for at least a year
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.
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.
35% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 4 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 3 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.
44% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
What pickdailynews.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.42% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.pickdailynews.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, http/1.1
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-27
- DNS operators
- 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
- DMARC policy
- p=none
- Homepage HTML
- 60 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 3 (png 2, svg 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 16
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Reachable over IPv6
- Structured data present
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 14
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- HTML compressed
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 1
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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