sportsnet.ca

Readiness by lane

Green: sportsnet.ca. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.

Priority fixes for sportsnet.ca

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

1. 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.

   77% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games 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

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 210 seconds, 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.

   55% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: The DMARC policy for sportsnet.ca was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.

   What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.

   32% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 198-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.

   70% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What sportsnet.ca already does well

Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.

• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.16% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.18% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.27% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.sportsnet.ca/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-01

CDN or edge

Akamai

Platform or framework

WordPress, Next.js

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

225 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

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