wikidata.org

Readiness by lane

Green: wikidata.org. Thin bar: Literary & Knowledge peer median.

Priority fixes for wikidata.org

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 300 seconds, 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.

   49% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: Browser Caching 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.

   88% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

   Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 25 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.

   31% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   HTTP/3 advertised

   Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.

   What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.

   47% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

   Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

What wikidata.org already does well

Practices fewer than half of Literary & Knowledge peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.5% of peers
• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to letsencrypt.org, pki.goog.13% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.18% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.wikidata.org/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2027-01-02

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 1,231 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

209 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

25 (png 32, jpg 8, svg 6)

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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