Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
vodacom.co.za
vodacom.co.za's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 285 Telecommunications & Internet sites.
- Readiness index
- 71/100
- Ahead of
- 65%
- Practices observed
- 16/28
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Telecommunications & Internet median 67
of measured Telecommunications & Internet sites
3 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: vodacom.co.za. Thin bar: Telecommunications & Internet peer median.
Enable
59/100
Peers 82
Harden
75/100
Peers 61
Accelerate
83/100
Peers 57
Recover
0/100
Peers 16
Priority fixes for vodacom.co.za
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
Meta description written
Observed: The homepage had no meta description.
Why it matters: Search engines often use it for the snippet under your link, so a clear description can improve click-through.
What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.
91% of Telecommunications & Internet peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent
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.
76% of Telecommunications & Internet peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
Content Security Policy present
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.
What to do: Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.
48% of Telecommunications & Internet peers do this.
Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know
Priority 4 · 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.
59% of Telecommunications & Internet peers do this.
What vodacom.co.za already does well
Practices fewer than half of Telecommunications & Internet peers use.
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazonaws.com, amazontrust.com and others.15% of peers
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.37% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.vodacom.co.za/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-12-23
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- DNS operators
- 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 92 KB, br
- 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 12
Observed 16
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- 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: vodacom.co.za. This profile covers configuration only.