Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
thenationalnews.com
thenationalnews.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 87/100
- Ahead of
- 98%
- Practices observed
- 25/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: thenationalnews.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
100/100
Peers 89
Harden
80/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
90/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for thenationalnews.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
HTTP/3 advertised
Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.
Why it matters: HTTP/3 runs over QUIC, which copes better with lossy mobile networks and recovers faster when a connection changes.
What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.
36% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Harden
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
Observed: No CAA record was found for thenationalnews.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.
13% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
security.txt published
Observed: No valid /.well-known/security.txt with a Contact field was returned.
What to do: Publish /.well-known/security.txt with at least Contact and Expires fields, as RFC 9116 requires, and review it before it expires.
6.2% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
DNSSEC signed
Observed: No DS record was found for thenationalnews.com at its parent zone, so its DNS answers are not DNSSEC-signed.
What to do: Enable DNSSEC at your DNS provider, then add the DS record at your registrar. Plan provider moves carefully: a stale DS record can make the domain fail to resolve.
6.1% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Website Uptime Readiness: Prepare Before Traffic Arrives
What thenationalnews.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.35% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.37% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.thenationalnews.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-28
- DNS operators
- GoDaddy DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 1,722 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 88 (jpg 294, png 3, svg 2, webp 1)
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 6
Observed 25
- 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
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- 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
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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