viacharacter.org

Readiness by lane

Green: viacharacter.org. Thin bar: Education & Online Learning peer median.

Priority fixes for viacharacter.org

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 30 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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.

   34% of Education & Online Learning 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 no max-age, 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.

   45% of Education & Online Learning 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.

   49% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from SSL Corporation had a 198-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.

   What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.

   60% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What viacharacter.org already does well

Practices fewer than half of Education & Online Learning peers use.

• Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.32% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.36% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.42% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.viacharacter.org/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

SSL Corporation, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-05-05

DNS operators

Network Solutions DNS

HSTS

max-age 30 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

64 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

37 (png 31, webp 7, jpg 4, svg 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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