Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
rtings.com
rtings.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 190 Ratings & Reviews sites.
- Readiness index
- 70/100
- Ahead of
- 63%
- Practices observed
- 20/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Ratings & Reviews median 66
of measured Ratings & Reviews sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
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Readiness by lane
Green: rtings.com. Thin bar: Ratings & Reviews peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 82
Harden
62/100
Peers 54
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 6
Priority fixes for rtings.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.
On Amazon CloudFront: Choose HTTP/2 (or HTTP/2 and HTTP/3) as supported versions on the distribution.
94% of Ratings & Reviews peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Priority 2 · 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.
On Amazon CloudFront: Attach a response headers policy with Strict-Transport-Security to each distribution.
31% of Ratings & Reviews peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
Observed: The homepage had 35 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.
65% of Ratings & Reviews peers do this.
Priority 4 · Accelerate
HTTP/3 advertised
Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.
What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.
On Amazon CloudFront: Select HTTP/3 in the distribution's supported HTTP versions.
40% of Ratings & Reviews peers do this.
What rtings.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Ratings & Reviews peers use.
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.26% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.37% of peers
- Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.37% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.rtings.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3
- Certificate
- Amazon, 393-day validity, expiring 2027-01-15
- CDN or edge
- Amazon CloudFront
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 264 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 35 (jpg 35)
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 11
Observed 20
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- 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: rtings.com. This profile covers configuration only.