Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
sabcnews.com
sabcnews.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 45/100
- Ahead of
- 2.5%
- Practices observed
- 11/30
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: sabcnews.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
62/100
Peers 89
Harden
48/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
30/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for sabcnews.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.
94% 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 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
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.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, 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 WordPress: Caching plugins or your host can set long browser cache lifetimes for theme and plugin assets.
60% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 4 · 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.
35% of News & Media peers do this.
What sabcnews.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.37% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.sabcnews.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 2 redirects
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, http/1.1
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-12-10
- Platform or framework
- WordPress
- DNS operators
- 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 563 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 42 (jpg 29, png 15, gif 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 19
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Social preview image set
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 11
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- HTML compressed
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Page language declared
Not measured 1
- robots.txt published
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