Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
ruhrnachrichten.de
ruhrnachrichten.de's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 76/100
- Ahead of
- 79%
- Practices observed
- 22/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
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: ruhrnachrichten.de. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 89
Harden
80/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for ruhrnachrichten.de
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.
On WordPress: WordPress has generated a basic sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml since 5.5; SEO plugins can replace it.
87% of News & Media 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 100 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 WordPress: WordPress has supported WebP uploads since 5.8 and AVIF since 6.5; image plugins or the host can convert existing images.
44% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 3 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 3 external scripts without async or defer.
What to do: Add defer to scripts that need the DOM, async to independent ones such as analytics, or move them to the end of the body.
On WordPress: Since WordPress 6.3, scripts can be registered with a defer or async loading strategy.
42% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
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.
36% of News & Media peers do this.
What ruhrnachrichten.de 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
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.37% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-14
- Platform or framework
- WordPress
- DNS operators
- 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 404 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 100 (jpg 315, svg 4, png 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 9
Observed 22
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- Reachable over IPv6
- 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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