Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
pnc.com
pnc.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 549 Banking & Finance sites.
- Readiness index
- 66/100
- Ahead of
- 46%
- Practices observed
- 19/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Banking & Finance median 66
of measured Banking & Finance sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: pnc.com. Thin bar: Banking & Finance peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 78
Harden
66/100
Peers 64
Accelerate
48/100
Peers 55
Recover
0/100
Peers 21
Priority fixes for pnc.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
HTTP requests move to HTTPS
Observed: A request to http://www.pnc.com/ was not redirected to HTTPS.
Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.
What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.
94% of Banking & Finance peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 5 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.
43% of Banking & Finance peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 28 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.
37% of Banking & Finance peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 4 · Enable
At most one redirect to the homepage
Observed: The homepage was reached after 2 redirects.
What to do: Point every alternate address (http, www or apex, old paths) straight to the final URL in a single redirect.
97% of Banking & Finance peers do this.
What pnc.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Banking & Finance peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.9.4% of peers
- Structured data presentJSON-LD structured data found.49% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.pnc.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 2 redirects
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Sectigo, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-02-13
- CDN or edge
- Akamai
- Platform or framework
- Adobe Experience Manager
- DNS operators
- Akamai Edge DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 204 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 28 (svg 20, png 7, 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 12
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- Referrer-Policy set
- 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
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 19
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- 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
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- 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
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: pnc.com. This profile covers configuration only.