Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
storytel.com
storytel.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 277 Audio & Music Streaming sites.
- Readiness index
- 74/100
- Ahead of
- 70%
- Practices observed
- 21/29
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
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: storytel.com. Thin bar: Audio & Music Streaming peer median.
Enable
92/100
Peers 84
Harden
71/100
Peers 55
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 64
Recover
0/100
Peers 8
Priority fixes for storytel.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
Certificate has more than 14 days left
Observed: The certificate from Certainly was due to expire on 2026-11-02 (10 days after the check).
Why it matters: An expired certificate makes browsers show a full-page warning. Renewing well ahead of expiry leaves time to fix a failed renewal.
What to do: Automate renewal with ACME (for example Let's Encrypt or your CDN's managed certificates) and add a renewal review to your release calendar so any certificate inside 21 days of expiry gets attention.
97% of Audio & Music Streaming peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Priority 2 · 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.
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.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script without async or defer.
What to do: Add defer to scripts that need the DOM, async to independent ones such as analytics, or move them to the end of the body.
On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.
57% of Audio & Music Streaming peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 4 · Harden
Framing restricted
Observed: The homepage did not send frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, so other sites may frame it.
What to do: Send Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self' (or a list of trusted origins). X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN covers older browsers.
On Next.js: Add it in next.config.js headers().
42% of Audio & Music Streaming peers do this.
What storytel.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Audio & Music Streaming peers use.
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.6.1% of peers
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.10% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, certainly.com, comodoca.com and others.13% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.storytel.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Certainly, 29-day validity, expiring 2026-11-02
- CDN or edge
- Google edge
- Platform or framework
- Next.js
- DNS operators
- Google Cloud DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 245 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 8
Observed 21
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- 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: storytel.com. This profile covers configuration only.