Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
zola.com
zola.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 387 Events & Online Ticketing sites.
- Readiness index
- 86/100
- Ahead of
- 99%
- Practices observed
- 25/31
- Popularity band
- Top 10K
Events & Online Ticketing median 63
of measured Events & Online Ticketing sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: zola.com. Thin bar: Events & Online Ticketing peer median.
Enable
95/100
Peers 78
Harden
91/100
Peers 57
Accelerate
73/100
Peers 59
Recover
0/100
Peers 7
Priority fixes for zola.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 hours, short of the 30-day benchmark.
Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.
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.
43% of Events & Online Ticketing peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script 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.
On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.
35% of Events & Online Ticketing peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 3 · 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.
52% of Events & Online Ticketing peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
DNSSEC signed
Observed: No DS record was found for zola.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.
On Amazon Route 53: Enable DNSSEC signing for the hosted zone and establish the chain of trust at the registrar.
9% of Events & Online Ticketing peers do this.
Guide: Website Uptime Readiness: Prepare Before Traffic Arrives
What zola.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Events & Online Ticketing peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.4.3% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazonaws.com, amazontrust.com and others.11% of peers
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.24% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.zola.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-04-17
- CDN or edge
- Amazon CloudFront
- Platform or framework
- Next.js
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 541 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 55 (webp 211, png 9, svg 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 6
Observed 25
- 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
- security.txt published
- 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
- 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: zola.com. This profile covers configuration only.