smtickets.com

Readiness by lane

Green: smtickets.com. Thin bar: Events & Online Ticketing peer median.

Priority fixes for smtickets.com

Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (563 KB) was delivered without gzip, Brotli or zstd compression.

   Why it matters: Compression usually shrinks HTML several times over, so the first bytes of the page arrive sooner on slow connections.

   What to do: Enable Brotli or gzip for text responses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SVG) at the CDN or origin.

   On Amazon CloudFront: Enable Compress objects automatically on the cache behaviour.

   89% of Events & Online Ticketing peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: How to Set a Website Performance Budget That Teams Can Keep

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 183 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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.

   42% of Events & Online Ticketing peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. 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.

   43% of Events & Online Ticketing peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 72 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.

   42% of Events & Online Ticketing peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

What smtickets.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Events & Online Ticketing peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazonaws.com, amazontrust.com and others.11% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.30% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.44% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://smtickets.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 393-day validity, expiring 2027-02-17

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 183 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

563 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

72 (jpg 47, svg 19, png 4)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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