proprofs.com

Readiness by lane

Green: proprofs.com. Thin bar: Business Tools peer median.

Priority fixes for proprofs.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 180 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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 Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.

   45% of Business Tools 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 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 4 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.

   On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.

   42% of Business Tools peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 47 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.

   On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.

   42% of Business Tools peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 47 images and none used loading="lazy".

   What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.

   62% of Business Tools peers do this.

   Guide: Lazy Loading Without Broken Pages

What proprofs.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Business Tools peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, comodoca.com, digicert.com and others.16% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.29% of peers
• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.37% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.proprofs.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

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

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 180 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

516 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

47 (svg 1, png 1)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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