walmart.ca

Readiness by lane

Green: walmart.ca. Thin bar: E-Commerce & Marketplaces peer median.

Priority fixes for walmart.ca

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HTTP requests move to HTTPS

   Observed: A request to http://www.walmart.ca/ 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 E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · 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.

   95% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.

   Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   85% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.

   Guide: Canonical Tags: A Decision Guide for Duplicate URLs

4. Priority 4 · 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.

   70% of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What walmart.ca already does well

Practices fewer than half of E-Commerce & Marketplaces peers use.

• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across Akamai Edge DNS and Vercara UltraDNS.11% of peers
• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to globalsign.com.16% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age.32% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.walmart.ca/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 2 redirects

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

GlobalSign, 199-day validity, expiring 2027-02-07

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS, Vercara UltraDNS

HSTS

max-age 730 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

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

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