Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
wellfound.com
wellfound.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 382 Job Portals, HR & Recruitment sites.
- Readiness index
- 84/100
- Ahead of
- 94%
- Practices observed
- 24/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Job Portals, HR & Recruitment median 65
of measured Job Portals, HR & Recruitment sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: wellfound.com. Thin bar: Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 82
Harden
86/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
73/100
Peers 62
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for wellfound.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 2 days, short of the 30-day benchmark.
Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.
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.
On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.
48% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script 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.
47% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
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.
30% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.
Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know
Priority 4 · Enable
Reachable over IPv6
Observed: No IPv6 (AAAA) address was published for wellfound.com.
What to do: Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.
On Cloudflare: Cloudflare offers IPv6 compatibility for proxied hostnames; check the setting in Network.
45% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.
What wellfound.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.6.2% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazonaws.com, amazontrust.com and others.14% of peers
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.34% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://wellfound.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-27
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 7,305 days
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 123 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 39 (svg 26, png 7, jpg 4, webp 2)
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 7
Observed 24
- 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
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: wellfound.com. This profile covers configuration only.