strava.com

Readiness by lane

Green: strava.com. Thin bar: Fitness & Health peer median.

Priority fixes for strava.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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 Amazon CloudFront: Attach a response headers policy with Strict-Transport-Security to each distribution.

   43% of Fitness & Health peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 0 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.

   56% of Fitness & Health peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · 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 Amazon CloudFront: Set frame options in a response headers policy.

   58% of Fitness & Health peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Content Security Policy present

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.

   What to do: Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.

   On Next.js: Next.js documents nonce-based CSP with middleware.

   38% of Fitness & Health peers do this.

   Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know

What strava.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Fitness & Health peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.7.3% of peers
• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.36% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.44% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.strava.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

GoDaddy, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-03-19

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

655 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

38 (webp 25, png 23, jpg 12, svg 11)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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