Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
xda-developers.com
xda-developers.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 94/100
- Ahead of
- >99%
- Practices observed
- 27/30
- Popularity band
- Top 10K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: xda-developers.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 89
Harden
89/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
100/100
Peers 68
Recover
100/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for xda-developers.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
security.txt published
Observed: No valid /.well-known/security.txt with a Contact field was returned.
Why it matters: Security researchers look for this file to report problems privately. Without it, reports may go to a general inbox or never arrive.
What to do: Publish /.well-known/security.txt with at least Contact and Expires fields, as RFC 9116 requires, and review it before it expires.
6.2% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Priority 2 · Enable
Reachable over IPv6
Observed: No IPv6 (AAAA) address was published for www.xda-developers.com.
What to do: Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.
51% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
DNSSEC signed
Observed: No DS record was found for xda-developers.com at its parent zone, so its DNS answers are not DNSSEC-signed.
What to do: Enable DNSSEC at your DNS provider, then add the DS record at your registrar. Plan provider moves carefully: a stale DS record can make the domain fail to resolve.
6.1% of News & Media peers do this.
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What xda-developers.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.11% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazonaws.com, amazontrust.com and others.13% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.22% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.xda-developers.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2027-01-07
- Platform or framework
- WordPress
- DNS operators
- 2 self-run or other nameserver domains
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 937 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 59 (jpg 97, png 7, svg 5, avif 2)
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
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 3
Observed 27
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Not measured 1
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
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