Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
virustotal.com
virustotal.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 46 Passwords & Cybersecurity sites.
- Readiness index
- 76/100
- Ahead of
- 50%
- Practices observed
- 18/28
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Passwords & Cybersecurity median 76
of measured Passwords & Cybersecurity sites
3 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: virustotal.com. Thin bar: Passwords & Cybersecurity peer median.
Enable
56/100
Peers 82
Harden
82/100
Peers 69
Accelerate
100/100
Peers 64
Recover
0/100
Peers 2
Priority fixes for virustotal.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
78% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 2 · 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.
70% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
Priority 3 · Enable
Social preview image set
Observed: The homepage had no og:image, so shared links may show without a preview image.
What to do: Add Open Graph tags, including og:image with a 1200 x 630 image.
76% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Observed: The homepage response did not include X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.
What to do: Send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff on all responses and make sure each file is served with the correct Content-Type.
65% of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers do this.
What virustotal.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Passwords & Cybersecurity peers use.
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.33% of peers
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.37% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com, letsencrypt.org, pki.goog and others.44% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.virustotal.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-06
- CDN or edge
- Google edge
- DNS operators
- Google Cloud DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 7 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 10
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
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 3
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: virustotal.com. This profile covers configuration only.