Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
soundcloud.com
soundcloud.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 277 Audio & Music Streaming sites.
- Readiness index
- 76/100
- Ahead of
- 75%
- Practices observed
- 19/29
- Popularity band
- Top 5K
Audio & Music Streaming median 66
of measured Audio & Music Streaming sites
2 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: soundcloud.com. Thin bar: Audio & Music Streaming peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 84
Harden
77/100
Peers 55
Accelerate
67/100
Peers 64
Recover
0/100
Peers 8
Priority fixes for soundcloud.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 hours, short of the 30-day benchmark.
Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.
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.
56% of Audio & Music Streaming peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from Amazon had a 394-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.
69% of Audio & Music Streaming peers do this.
Priority 3 · 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.
31% of Audio & Music Streaming peers do this.
Priority 4 · Enable
Structured data present
Observed: The homepage had no JSON-LD structured data.
What to do: Add JSON-LD for your organization and main content types, then test it with Google's Rich Results Test.
52% of Audio & Music Streaming peers do this.
What soundcloud.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Audio & Music Streaming peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.10% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazonaws.com, amazontrust.com and others.13% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age covering subdomains.33% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://soundcloud.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 394-day validity, expiring 2027-03-18
- CDN or edge
- Amazon CloudFront
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 73 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 10
Observed 19
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Framing restricted
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 2
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: soundcloud.com. This profile covers configuration only.