usbank.com

Readiness by lane

Green: usbank.com. Thin bar: Banking & Finance peer median.

Priority fixes for usbank.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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.

   62% of Banking & Finance peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 24 hours, short of the 30-day benchmark.

   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.

   43% of Banking & Finance peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   Framing restricted

   Observed: The homepage did not send frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, so other sites may frame it.

   What to do: Send Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self' (or a list of trusted origins). X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN covers older browsers.

   69% of Banking & Finance peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 3 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.

   36% of Banking & Finance peers do this.

   Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page

What usbank.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Banking & Finance peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com, entrust.net.20% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.22% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.36% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.usbank.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 396-day validity, expiring 2027-03-06

CDN or edge

Akamai

Platform or framework

Adobe Experience Manager

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

272 KB, br

Images on homepage

21 (webp 30, svg 8, jpg 1)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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