Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
rawstory.com
rawstory.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 82/100
- Ahead of
- 93%
- Practices observed
- 23/31
- Popularity band
- Top 10K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: rawstory.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 89
Harden
66/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
100/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for rawstory.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.
Why it matters: TLS 1.3 removes legacy cipher suites and completes the handshake in fewer round trips, so it is both safer and faster for new connections.
What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.
On Cloudflare: Turn on TLS 1.3 under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates.
93% 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 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from GlobalSign nv-sa had a 198-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.
66% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
Observed: No CAA record was found for rawstory.com, 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.
13% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
security.txt published
Observed: No valid /.well-known/security.txt with a Contact field was returned.
What to do: Publish /.well-known/security.txt with at least Contact and Expires fields, as RFC 9116 requires, and review it before it expires.
On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Security Center can serve a security.txt file for the zone.
6.2% of News & Media peers do this.
What rawstory.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.35% of peers
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.36% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.rawstory.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.2, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- GlobalSign, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-19
- CDN or edge
- Fastly
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 570 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 65 (jpg 326, png 8, webp 8)
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 8
Observed 23
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- 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
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: rawstory.com. This profile covers configuration only.