Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
techradar.com
techradar.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 190 Ratings & Reviews sites.
- Readiness index
- 87/100
- Ahead of
- 97%
- Practices observed
- 23/30
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Ratings & Reviews median 66
of measured Ratings & Reviews sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: techradar.com. Thin bar: Ratings & Reviews peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 82
Harden
80/100
Peers 54
Accelerate
100/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 6
Priority fixes for techradar.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
Social preview image set
Observed: The homepage had no og:image, so shared links may show without a preview image.
Why it matters: When your link is shared in chat apps and social networks, the preview image is what people see first.
What to do: Add Open Graph tags, including og:image with a 1200 x 630 image.
63% of Ratings & Reviews peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Priority 2 · Harden
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Observed: The homepage response did not include X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.
What to do: Send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff on all responses and make sure each file is served with the correct Content-Type.
40% of Ratings & Reviews peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
Observed: No CAA record was found for techradar.com, so any public certificate authority may issue for it.
What to do: Publish CAA records naming every CA you actually use, including the CAs your CDN uses for managed certificates. Add an iodef contact if you want reports.
11% of Ratings & Reviews peers do this.
Priority 4 · Enable
Reachable over IPv6
Observed: No IPv6 (AAAA) address was published for www.techradar.com.
What to do: Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.
41% of Ratings & Reviews peers do this.
What techradar.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Ratings & Reviews peers use.
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.23% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.31% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.37% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.techradar.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-11-29
- CDN or edge
- Fastly
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 2,214 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 164 (jpg 447, webp 383, png 63, svg 26, gif 7)
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 7
Observed 23
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- 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
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 1
- security.txt published
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: techradar.com. This profile covers configuration only.