Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
psychologytoday.com
psychologytoday.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 613 Fitness & Health sites.
- Readiness index
- 69/100
- Ahead of
- 54%
- Practices observed
- 19/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Fitness & Health median 67
of measured Fitness & Health sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: psychologytoday.com. Thin bar: Fitness & Health peer median.
Enable
74/100
Peers 82
Harden
65/100
Peers 59
Accelerate
75/100
Peers 63
Recover
0/100
Peers 10
Priority fixes for psychologytoday.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
78% of Fitness & Health peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 64 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.
45% of Fitness & Health peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 3 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: The DMARC policy for psychologytoday.com was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.
What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.
44% of Fitness & Health peers do this.
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.
95% of Fitness & Health peers do this.
What psychologytoday.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Fitness & Health peers use.
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.9% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.43% of peers
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.45% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 2 redirects
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-04-11
- Platform or framework
- Drupal
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=none
- Homepage HTML
- 172 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 64 (jpg 63, svg 9, png 2)
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
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Modern image formats in use
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 19
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- DNSSEC signed
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
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