windy.com

Readiness by lane

Green: windy.com. Thin bar: Weather Forecast peer median.

Priority fixes for windy.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   robots.txt published

   Observed: No robots.txt file was returned at the site root.

   Why it matters: robots.txt is where crawlers look first for crawl rules and sitemap locations. Without it, they assume everything is open.

   What to do: Publish /robots.txt with any crawl rules you need and a Sitemap: line pointing to your XML sitemap.

   90% of Weather Forecast peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

   Guide: Robots.txt Guide: Control Crawling Without Hiding Mistakes

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.

   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.

   39% of Weather Forecast peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

   Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.

   What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.

   66% of Weather Forecast peers do this.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

   Observed: The homepage response did not include X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.

   What to do: Send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff on all responses and make sure each file is served with the correct Content-Type.

   46% of Weather Forecast peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What windy.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Weather Forecast peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.3.2% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.22% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.28% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.windy.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-06

CDN or edge

Google edge

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

8 KB, br

Images on homepage

1 (svg 1)

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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