Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
techpowerup.com
techpowerup.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 65/100
- Ahead of
- 38%
- Practices observed
- 17/30
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: techpowerup.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
64/100
Peers 89
Harden
65/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
71/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for techpowerup.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
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.
87% of News & Media 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
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.
35% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 196 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.
44% of News & Media 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.
89% of News & Media peers do this.
What techpowerup.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.37% of peers
- Framing restrictedFraming controls present.42% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.techpowerup.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-25
- DNS operators
- Namecheap DNS
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 232 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 196 (png 163, jpg 137, gif 2)
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
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Modern image formats in use
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Structured data present
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 17
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 1
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
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