Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
uptodate.com
uptodate.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 613 Fitness & Health sites.
- Readiness index
- 59/100
- Ahead of
- 25%
- Practices observed
- 15/29
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Fitness & Health median 67
of measured Fitness & Health sites
2 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: uptodate.com. Thin bar: Fitness & Health peer median.
Enable
51/100
Peers 82
Harden
63/100
Peers 59
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 63
Recover
0/100
Peers 10
Priority fixes for uptodate.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
HTTP requests move to HTTPS
Observed: A request to http://www.uptodate.com/ was not redirected to HTTPS.
Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.
What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.
96% of Fitness & Health peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
HTTP/2 negotiated
Observed: The TLS handshake selected HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP/2.
What to do: Enable HTTP/2 on your CDN or server. Most CDNs do this by default.
85% of Fitness & Health peers do this.
Priority 3 · Enable
Meta description written
Observed: The homepage had no meta description.
What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.
88% of Fitness & Health peers do this.
Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent
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.
81% of Fitness & Health peers do this.
What uptodate.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Fitness & Health peers use.
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.33% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.38% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age.43% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.uptodate.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 2 redirects
- TLS
- TLSv1.3
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-03-04
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 3 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 0
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 14
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 15
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Mobile viewport configured
- Page language declared
Not measured 2
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: uptodate.com. This profile covers configuration only.