Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
statcounter.com
statcounter.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 233 Data & Analytics sites.
- Readiness index
- 63/100
- Ahead of
- 45%
- Practices observed
- 16/29
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Data & Analytics median 63
of measured Data & Analytics sites
2 of 31 could not be measured
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Readiness by lane
Green: statcounter.com. Thin bar: Data & Analytics peer median.
Enable
50/100
Peers 78
Harden
64/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
75/100
Peers 63
Recover
0/100
Peers 8
Priority fixes for statcounter.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
robots.txt published
Observed: No robots.txt file was returned at the site root.
Why it matters: robots.txt is where crawlers look first for crawl rules and sitemap locations. Without it, they assume everything is open.
What to do: Publish /robots.txt with any crawl rules you need and a Sitemap: line pointing to your XML sitemap.
90% of Data & Analytics peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: Robots.txt Guide: Control Crawling Without Hiding Mistakes
Priority 2 · 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.
On Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.
34% of Data & Analytics peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 46 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.
On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.
31% of Data & Analytics peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 4 · Enable
Canonical URL declared
Observed: The homepage did not declare a canonical URL.
What to do: Add a self-referencing canonical link to every indexable page, using the final https:// URL.
65% of Data & Analytics peers do this.
What statcounter.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Data & Analytics peers use.
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.8.2% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.33% of peers
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.37% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://statcounter.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- SSL Corporation, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-25
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 24 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 46 (svg 39, png 5)
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 13
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Structured data present
- Page language declared
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 16
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- DNSSEC signed
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Social preview image set
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 2
- security.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
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