Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
zaobao.com.sg
zaobao.com.sg's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 3,856 News & Media sites.
- Readiness index
- 80/100
- Ahead of
- 90%
- Practices observed
- 23/31
- 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: zaobao.com.sg. Thin bar: News & Media peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 89
Harden
75/100
Peers 56
Accelerate
78/100
Peers 68
Recover
0/100
Peers 11
Priority fixes for zaobao.com.sg
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: The DMARC policy for zaobao.com.sg was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.
Why it matters: An enforcing DMARC policy helps receiving mail systems reject email that falsely claims to come from your domain, a common route for phishing your customers.
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. Limit: Read from public DNS at the time of the check; records may have changed since.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
Observed: The homepage had 17 images and none used loading="lazy".
What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.
72% of News & Media peers do this.
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 News & Media peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 4 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from Amazon had a 197-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.
66% of News & Media peers do this.
What zaobao.com.sg already does well
Practices fewer than half of News & Media peers use.
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, digicert.com, globalsign.com and others.13% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.22% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.29% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.zaobao.com.sg/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-01-25
- CDN or edge
- Amazon CloudFront
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=none
- Homepage HTML
- 270 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 17 (webp 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 8
Observed 23
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- 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
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: zaobao.com.sg. This profile covers configuration only.