wunderground.com

Readiness by lane

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

Priority fixes for wunderground.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

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

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 7 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.

   48% of Weather Forecast peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: No DMARC record was found at _dmarc.wunderground.com.

   What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.

   31% of Weather Forecast peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Enable

   Page language declared

   Observed: The homepage <html> element had no lang attribute.

   What to do: Set lang on the html element (for example lang="en") and on any sections in another language.

   88% of Weather Forecast peers do this.

   Guide: Website Accessibility Checklist for Owners

What wunderground.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Weather Forecast peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, digicert.com, letsencrypt.org and others.8.9% of peers
• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.48% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.wunderground.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 365-day validity, expiring 2027-01-05

CDN or edge

Akamai

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS

Homepage HTML

97 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

0

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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