westernunion.com

Readiness by lane

Green: westernunion.com. Thin bar: Online Payment & Wallets peer median.

Priority fixes for westernunion.com

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.westernunion.com/ 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.

   On Amazon CloudFront: Set the viewer protocol policy of each cache behaviour to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS.

   95% of Online Payment & Wallets 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 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 1 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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.

   On Amazon CloudFront: Attach a response headers policy with Strict-Transport-Security to each distribution.

   60% of Online Payment & Wallets peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 9 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.

   47% of Online Payment & Wallets peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 days, 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.

   32% of Online Payment & Wallets peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

What westernunion.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Online Payment & Wallets peers use.

• Structured data presentJSON-LD structured data found.38% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.49% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.westernunion.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 2 redirects

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Sectigo, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-05-01

CDN or edge

Akamai, Amazon CloudFront

Platform or framework

Adobe Experience Manager

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 1 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

54 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

9 (svg 3)

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.

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