Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026

wikihow.com

wikihow.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 696 Literary & Knowledge sites.

Readiness index: 71/100
Ahead of: 78%
Practices observed: 19/31
Popularity band: Top 10K

Measured 2026-10-23 11:51:51 UTC from one location. How we measure

Readiness by lane

Green: wikihow.com. Thin bar: Literary & Knowledge peer median.

Enable

74/100

Peers 78

Harden

69/100

Peers 51

Accelerate

75/100

Peers 62

Recover

0/100

Peers 6

Priority fixes for wikihow.com

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

Priority 1 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
69% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, 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.
49% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.
Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners
Priority 3 · 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
Priority 4 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from GlobalSign nv-sa had a 198-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.
78% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What wikihow.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Literary & Knowledge peers use.

DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.22% of peers
HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.28% of peers
Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.31% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked: https://www.wikihow.com/
Homepage response: HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
TLS: TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
Certificate: GlobalSign, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-03-26
DNS operators: DNS Made Easy
HSTS: max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
DMARC policy: p=reject
Homepage HTML: 369 KB, gzip
Images on homepage: 232 (webp 76, jpg 67, svg 52, png 41)

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.

DNS Made Easy (dns operator)GlobalSign (certificate authority)

All 31 checks

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Not observed 12

Observed 19

HTTP requests move to HTTPS
HSTS kept for at least a year
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Certificate has more than 14 days left
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Framing restricted
HTTP/2 negotiated
HTML compressed
Modern image formats in use
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
robots.txt published
Canonical URL declared
Meta description written
Mobile viewport configured
Structured data present
Page language declared
At most one redirect to the homepage

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