Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
thestar.com.my
thestar.com.my's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 66/100
- Ahead of
- 40%
- Practices observed
- 18/31
- Popularity band
- Top 5K
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: thestar.com.my. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 89
Harden
58/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
53/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for thestar.com.my
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, short of the 30-day benchmark.
Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.
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.
60% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: The DMARC policy for thestar.com.my was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.
What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.
37% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
Observed: The homepage had 13 images and none used loading="lazy".
What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.
72% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 4 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 18 external scripts 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.
42% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
What thestar.com.my already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.22% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.35% of peers
- Framing restrictedFraming controls present.42% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.thestar.com.my/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-03-03
- CDN or edge
- Amazon CloudFront
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=none
- Homepage HTML
- 294 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 13 (jpg 7, png 3, webp 3, svg 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 13
- 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
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Reachable over IPv6
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 18
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Framing restricted
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- 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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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: thestar.com.my. This profile covers configuration only.