ufc.com

Readiness by lane

Green: ufc.com. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.

Priority fixes for ufc.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   Certificate has more than 14 days left

   Observed: The certificate from Certainly was due to expire on 2026-11-02 (10 days after the check).

   Why it matters: An expired certificate makes browsers show a full-page warning. Renewing well ahead of expiry leaves time to fix a failed renewal.

   What to do: Automate renewal with ACME (for example Let's Encrypt or your CDN's managed certificates) and add a renewal review to your release calendar so any certificate inside 21 days of expiry gets attention.

   99% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   TLS 1.3 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.

   What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.

   90% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 0 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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 Fastly: Add the header in VCL or a header rule as described in Fastly's HSTS guide.

   27% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 32 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.

   35% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

What ufc.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.

• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.32% of peers
• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.32% of peers
• Framing restrictedFraming controls present.34% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.ufc.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.2, HTTP/2

Certificate

Certainly, 29-day validity, expiring 2026-11-02

CDN or edge

Fastly, Pantheon

Platform or framework

Drupal

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 0 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

161 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

32 (jpg 166, png 6)

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.

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