Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
xportsnews.com
xportsnews.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 62/100
- Ahead of
- 25%
- Practices observed
- 18/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
News & Media median 68
of measured News & Media sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: xportsnews.com. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 89
Harden
66/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
20/100
Peers 68
Recover
100/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for xportsnews.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
HTTP/2 negotiated
Observed: The TLS handshake selected http/1.1 instead of HTTP/2.
Why it matters: HTTP/2 sends many files over one connection, which speeds up pages with lots of images, styles and scripts.
What to do: Enable HTTP/2 on your CDN or server. Most CDNs do this by default.
94% of News & Media peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 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.
60% of News & Media peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 51 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.
44% of News & Media peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 4 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: No DMARC record was found at _dmarc.xportsnews.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.
37% of News & Media peers do this.
What xportsnews.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
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age.35% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.xportsnews.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, http/1.1
- Certificate
- Sectigo, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-02-14
- DNS operators
- 2 self-run or other nameserver domains
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days
- Homepage HTML
- 45 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 51 (jpg 45, svg 3, png 3)
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 13
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Reachable over IPv6
Observed 18
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTML compressed
- 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
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