Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
skyscanner.com
skyscanner.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 478 Travel Bookings & Trip Planning sites.
- Readiness index
- 82/100
- Ahead of
- 91%
- Practices observed
- 21/28
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Travel Bookings & Trip Planning median 68
of measured Travel Bookings & Trip Planning sites
3 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: skyscanner.com. Thin bar: Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 86
Harden
78/100
Peers 60
Accelerate
79/100
Peers 64
Recover
0/100
Peers 13
Priority fixes for skyscanner.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script without async or defer.
Why it matters: A plain <script src> in the head stops the browser from showing anything until that file has downloaded and run.
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.
44% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 2 · Harden
Content Security Policy present
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.
What to do: Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.
30% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.
Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know
Priority 3 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from Amazon had a 197-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.
52% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
Observed: No CAA record was found for skyscanner.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.
10% of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers do this.
What skyscanner.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Travel Bookings & Trip Planning peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.17% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.32% of peers
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.33% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.skyscanner.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-02-09
- CDN or edge
- Amazon CloudFront
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 279 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 0
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 7
Observed 21
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- 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
Not measured 3
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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