Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026

youtube.com

youtube.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 536 Entertainment & Video Streaming sites.

Readiness index: 79/100
Ahead of: 93%
Practices observed: 21/28
Popularity band: Top 1K

Measured 2026-10-23 11:25:16 UTC from one location. How we measure

Readiness by lane

Green: youtube.com. Thin bar: Entertainment & Video Streaming peer median.

Enable

56/100

Peers 80

Harden

92/100

Peers 52

Accelerate

83/100

Peers 60

Recover

0/100

Peers 12

Priority fixes for youtube.com

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

Priority 1 · Enable
Mobile viewport configured
Observed: The homepage had no viewport meta tag, so phones may render it zoomed out.
Why it matters: Without it, phones render the page at desktop width and shrink it, which makes text tiny and hard to use.
What to do: Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> and check the layout on small screens.
96% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Guide: Responsive Web Design Checklist for Real Devices
Priority 2 · 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.
71% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 3 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 8 external scripts without async or defer.
What to do: Add defer to scripts that need the DOM, async to independent ones such as analytics, or move them to the end of the body.
42% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 4 · Enable
Structured data present
Observed: The homepage had no JSON-LD structured data.
What to do: Add JSON-LD for your organization and main content types, then test it with Google's Rich Results Test.
48% of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers do this.
Guide: Structured Data Basics for Website Owners

What youtube.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Entertainment & Video Streaming peers use.

security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.5.6% of peers
CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to pki.goog.9.5% of peers
Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.18% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked: https://www.youtube.com/
Homepage response: HTTP 200
TLS: TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
Certificate: Google Trust Services, 83-day validity, expiring 2026-12-21
CDN or edge: Google edge
DNS operators: Google Cloud DNS
HSTS: max-age 365 days
DMARC policy: p=reject
Homepage HTML: 934 KB, br
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.

Google edge (cdn and edge platform)Google Cloud DNS (dns operator)Google Trust Services (certificate authority)Service guide: Google Cloud

All 31 checks

Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works

Not observed 7

Observed 21

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
security.txt published
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Framing restricted
Content Security Policy present
HTTP/2 negotiated
HTTP/3 advertised
HTML compressed
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Reachable over IPv6
Canonical URL declared
Meta description written
Social preview image set
Page language declared
At most one redirect to the homepage

Not measured 3

Modern image formats in use
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
robots.txt published

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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: youtube.com. This profile covers configuration only.

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