stateofenergy.com.au

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Green: stateofenergy.com.au. Thin bar: Energy, Electricity & Gas peer median.

Priority fixes for stateofenergy.com.au

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (583 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.

   79% of Energy, Electricity & Gas 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: 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 Azure Front Door/CDN: Add a response header action in a Front Door rule set.

   63% of Energy, Electricity & Gas peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: No DMARC record was found at _dmarc.stateofenergy.com.au.

   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.

   64% of Energy, Electricity & Gas peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 8 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 Next.js: The next/image component serves optimized formats automatically.

   36% of Energy, Electricity & Gas peers do this.

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

What stateofenergy.com.au already does well

Practices fewer than half of Energy, Electricity & Gas peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com.11% of peers
• Static files cached for 30 days or moreLong-lived caching on static files.41% of peers
• Social preview image setog:image present.47% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://stateofenergy.com.au/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 184-day validity, expiring 2027-02-28

CDN or edge

Azure Front Door/CDN

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Azure DNS

Homepage HTML

583 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

8

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.

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