wnba.com

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Green: wnba.com. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.

Priority fixes for wnba.com

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 no max-age, 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.

   55% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games 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 · 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 Next.js: Add the header in the headers() option of next.config.js for all routes.

   27% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 36 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.

   On Next.js: The next/image component serves optimized formats automatically.

   35% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc 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.

   70% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What wnba.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.

• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.32% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.43% of peers
• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.43% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.wnba.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-16

CDN or edge

Akamai

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS

HSTS

max-age 1 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

262 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

36 (svg 22, png 13, jpg 1)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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