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Security

StandardVerdictFactorsNote
Modern HTTP security headers
OWASP · OWASP Secure Headers Project
n/aEvery site over HTTPS — which by 2026 is every site.
HSTS Preload
Chromium / Google · Chromium preload list
n/aSites that have committed to HTTPS-only forever (preload removal can take months).
TLS 1.2+ baseline
IETF · RFC 5246 / RFC 8446
n/aEvery HTTPS endpoint.
DNSSEC
IETF · RFC 4033–4035
n/aHigh-trust domains — gov, finance, healthcare, email at scale.
CAA records
IETF · RFC 8659
n/aEvery domain with HTTPS.
Valid SSL certificate
CA/Browser Forum · CA/Browser Forum Baseline
n/aEvery HTTPS endpoint.
Forward secrecy
IETF · TLS 1.3 mandatory
n/aEvery HTTPS endpoint.
Content Security Policy Level 3
W3C · W3C Working Draft
n/aEvery site rendering HTML — defense-in-depth against script injection.
Subresource Integrity
W3C · W3C Recommendation
n/aAny site loading scripts or stylesheets from a third-party CDN.
Cross-Origin isolation (COOP / COEP / CORP)
WHATWG / W3C · HTML Living Standard
n/aSites using cross-origin isolated APIs, or hardening top-level pages against cross-window attacks.
Permissions-Policy
W3C · W3C Working Draft
n/aEvery site — the default-deny posture is one line of config.
Referrer-Policy
W3C · W3C Candidate Recommendation
n/aEvery site that ever sends an outbound request.
X-Frame-Options + frame-ancestors
IETF / W3C · RFC 7034 / CSP frame-ancestors
n/aAny site with login, payment, or sensitive forms — but cheap enough to deploy everywhere.
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
WHATWG · Fetch Standard
n/aEvery HTTP response.
HTTP Strict Transport Security
IETF · RFC 6797
n/aEvery HTTPS site — the base header is safe, preload is the irreversible commitment.
security.txt
IETF · RFC 9116
n/aEvery site — research disclosures arrive whether you invited them or not.
PCI DSS v4.0
PCI Security Standards Council · 4.0.1
n/aEvery site touching payment card data — including iframes and redirects to payment processors.
SOC 2 (Type I & Type II)
AICPA · AICPA Trust Services Criteria
n/aB2B SaaS, hosting, and any service organization holding customer data on behalf of enterprises.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
ISO/IEC · 2022
n/aOrganizations selling to European or international enterprise buyers, or operating in regulated industries.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
NIST · 2.0
n/aUS-based organizations, federal contractors, or anyone needing a cross-walk between security frameworks.
OWASP Top 10 (2025)
OWASP Foundation · 2025
n/aEvery web application — the Top 10 is the baseline, not the ceiling.
DANE for SMTP
IETF · RFC 7672
n/aDomains with DNSSEC that send or receive mail with high-trust counterparties (gov, EU, finance).
TLS 1.3
IETF · RFC 8446
n/aEvery HTTPS endpoint — modern stacks support it; legacy stacks should be on the migration list.
OCSP Stapling
IETF · RFC 6066 status_request
n/aEvery HTTPS endpoint — usually a one-flag origin or CDN setting.
Certificate Transparency
IETF · RFC 6962 / RFC 9162
n/aEvery publicly-trusted certificate — automatic via your CA, but worth monitoring.

Performance

StandardVerdictFactorsNote
Core Web Vitals
Google · 2024 thresholds
n/aEvery public-facing site that wants Google traffic or conversions.
HTTP/2
IETF · RFC 9113
n/aEvery public site.
HTTP/3
IETF · RFC 9114
n/aSites with mobile-heavy or international audiences.
Brotli / gzip compression
IETF · RFC 7932 / RFC 1952
n/aEvery HTTP response with text content.
font-display: swap
W3C CSS WG · CSS Fonts Module Level 4
n/aEvery site loading custom web fonts.
Resource hints (preconnect / preload / prefetch / dns-prefetch)
WHATWG · WHATWG HTML Living Standard
n/aEvery site with third-party origins or a known above-fold critical asset.
Modern image formats (WebP / AVIF)
Per-format spec · MDN reference
n/aEvery site serving images — which is most.
Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
Google · Core Web Vital (March 2024)
n/aEvery interactive site — i.e. every site.
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
Google · Core Web Vital
n/aEvery public-facing site.
Speed Index
Google / Catchpoint · Lighthouse / WebPageTest
n/aSites optimizing perceived performance, not just numerical milestones.

SEO

StandardVerdictFactorsNote
Schema.org structured data
Schema.org / W3C · Latest
n/aEvery public-facing site that wants discoverability.
robots.txt + sitemap.xml
IETF / Sitemaps.org · RFC 9309 / sitemaps.org
n/aEvery public-facing site.
Open Graph + Twitter Cards
Meta / X · Open Graph 2010 / Twitter Cards
n/aEvery site whose links get shared anywhere.
Heading hierarchy
WHATWG · HTML Living Standard
n/aEvery public-facing HTML page.
Canonical URLs
IETF / Google · RFC 6596 + Google canonicalization
n/aEvery public site — but especially e-commerce, paginated archives, and multi-region sites.
hreflang
Google · Google Search Central
n/aMulti-language or multi-region sites — anyone serving distinct content per locale.
Robots meta + X-Robots-Tag
Google · Google Search Central
n/aEvery site with internal pages, staging environments, or non-HTML assets that shouldn't be in search.
Mobile viewport meta tag
WHATWG / Google · WHATWG / Google mobile-friendly
n/aEvery public site that wants Google traffic — which is to say, every public site.
BreadcrumbList structured data
Schema.org / Google · schema.org / Google
n/aAny site with a content hierarchy more than two levels deep.
FAQ / HowTo structured data
Schema.org / Google · schema.org (rich results deprecated)
n/aSites with substantial Q&A or instructional content — gov / health for FAQ rich results, others for general AI/structured-data signal.
Google Search Essentials
Google · 2022 (replaces Webmaster Guidelines)
n/aEvery site that wants Google traffic.

AI-readiness

StandardVerdictFactorsNote
llms.txt
Answer.AI / community · Draft (2024)
n/aEvery site that wants to be cited well by AI assistants.
AI crawler permissions
Per-vendor · robots.txt convention
n/aEvery site that has an opinion about AI training and citation.
C2PA Content Credentials
Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity · 2.1 (Sep 2024)
n/aPublishers, photographers, video producers, and any site whose authenticity matters for trust or compliance.
ai.txt
Spawning / community · Draft (Spawning)
n/aPublishers who care about how their content is used in AI training, not just whether it's crawled.
ai-plugin.json (well-known plugin manifest)
OpenAI · v1 (OpenAI plugins, 2023)
n/aSites with public APIs that want to be agent-discoverable.
IETF AI Preferences (aipref)
IETF · Working draft (target Aug 2026)
n/aAnyone tracking AI policy or building tooling around training opt-outs.
llms-full.txt
Answer.AI / community · Community convention (2024–)
n/aDocumentation sites and any content-heavy site that wants AI assistants to cite it accurately.

Privacy

StandardVerdictFactorsNote
GDPR
European Commission · Regulation (EU) 2016/679
n/aApplies wherever EU residents' personal data is processed — effectively any site with EU traffic that uses analytics or tracking.
CCPA / CPRA
California Privacy Protection Agency · CPRA Amendment (2023)
n/aCalifornia residents — but most sites with U.S. traffic encounter California users, so default to applying it.
Cookie consent baseline
European Commission · ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC
n/aAny site with EU traffic, plus increasingly any site claiming to respect user privacy.
HIPAA
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (Office for Civil Rights) · 45 CFR Parts 160 & 164
n/aU.S. healthcare providers, health plans, clearinghouses, and their business associates — anyone whose site touches protected health information.
COPPA
U.S. Federal Trade Commission · 16 CFR Part 312 (2025 amendments)
n/aU.S. sites directed at children under 13, and any general-audience site with actual knowledge it is collecting from children.
LGPD
Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD) · Lei nº 13.709/2018
n/aBrazilian residents — applies extraterritorially to sites processing their personal data regardless of where the operator is located.
PIPEDA
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) · S.C. 2000, c. 5
n/aCommercial activity in Canada — federally regulated everywhere; private-sector everywhere except where a substantially-similar provincial law applies.
POPIA
Information Regulator (South Africa) · Act 4 of 2013
n/aSouth African residents — applies to any responsible party that is domiciled in South Africa or that processes personal information using means located there.
Australian Privacy Act + APPs
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) · Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) — 2024 amendments
n/aAustralian residents — applies to APP entities (most organisations with >A$3M turnover) and to overseas businesses with an Australian link.
Quebec Law 25
Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (CAI) · Bill 64 (2021), final phase 22 Sept 2024
n/aQuebec residents specifically — Law 25 displaces PIPEDA in Quebec for private-sector commercial activity.
Virginia CDPA
Virginia Office of the Attorney General · Va. Code §§ 59.1-575 et seq.
n/aVirginia residents — applies to controllers processing 100K+ Virginia consumers, or 25K+ where 50%+ of revenue comes from selling personal data.
Colorado Privacy Act
Colorado Attorney General · Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 6-1-1301 et seq.
n/aColorado residents — applies to controllers processing 100K+ Colorado consumers, or 25K+ where any revenue is derived from selling personal data.
Connecticut Data Privacy Act
Connecticut Attorney General · Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 42-515 et seq.
n/aConnecticut residents — applies to controllers processing 100K+ Connecticut consumers, or 25K+ where 25%+ of revenue is from selling personal data.
Utah Consumer Privacy Act
Utah Department of Commerce — Division of Consumer Protection · Utah Code Title 13, Chapter 61
n/aUtah residents — applies to controllers with $25M+ annual revenue that process 100K+ Utah consumers (or 25K+ if 50%+ of revenue is from selling personal data).
Texas Data Privacy and Security Act
Texas Office of the Attorney General · Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Ch. 541
n/aTexas residents — applies to anyone conducting business in Texas or producing products/services consumed by Texas residents that processes personal data and is not an SBA-defined small business.
Oregon Consumer Privacy Act
Oregon Department of Justice · ORS 646A.570–646A.589
n/aOregon residents — applies to controllers processing 100K+ Oregon consumers, or 25K+ where 25%+ of revenue is from selling personal data; nonprofits are included as of 1 July 2025.
EU ePrivacy Regulation (withdrawn)
European Commission · COM(2017) 10 final — withdrawn 2025
n/aWould have applied to providers of electronic communications services and websites with EU users — but the proposal was withdrawn before adoption.

Accessibility

StandardVerdictFactorsNote
WCAG 2.2 Level AA
W3C · 2.2
n/aApplies to every public-facing website. Personal one-pagers excepted only when no commercial activity occurs.
WCAG 2.2 Level A
W3C · 2.2
n/aApplies to every public-facing website.
Section 508
U.S. Access Board · Refresh 2018
n/aApplies to federal agencies (.gov) and any vendor selling electronic content to the U.S. government.
European Accessibility Act
European Commission · Directive (EU) 2019/882
n/aApplies to e-commerce, banking, ICT, transport-ticketing, and digital services in the EU as of June 2025.
ADA Title III (digital)
U.S. Department of Justice · Public Accommodation
n/aU.S. consumer-facing websites of businesses considered places of public accommodation.
WCAG 2.1 Level AA
W3C · 2.1
n/aOperative wherever a regulation cites WCAG 2.1 by name — currently the EU (EAA, EN 301 549), UK (PSBAR), France (RGAA), Germany (BITV 2.0), and others.
WCAG 2.1 Level A
W3C · 2.1
n/aApplies wherever a regulation explicitly cites WCAG 2.1 Level A.
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility (Ontario) · 2005 (IASR)
n/aPublic-sector organizations of any size and private/nonprofit organizations with 50+ employees operating in Ontario.
Accessible Canada Act
Accessibility Standards Canada · S.C. 2019, c. 10
n/aFederally regulated entities in Canada — federal departments, banks, telecoms, broadcasters, interprovincial transport.
Référentiel Général d'Amélioration de l'Accessibilité
DINUM (Direction interministérielle du numérique) · 4.1.2
n/aFrench public sector and large private organizations (>€250M revenue or operating digital services to the public in France).
Barrierefreie-Informationstechnik-Verordnung 2.0
Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales · 2019 amendment
n/aGerman federal public-sector websites, mobile apps, intranets, and extranets.
JIS X 8341-3:2016
Japanese Industrial Standards Committee · 2016
n/aJapan — required for national and local government public-facing websites; recommended for the private sector.
Korean Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2
Ministry of Science and ICT (South Korea) · 2.2
n/aAll public and private organizations operating websites accessible from South Korea.
Israeli Standard 5568
Standards Institution of Israel · 2013
n/aAll public agencies and any business serving Israeli consumers via a website.
21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
Federal Communications Commission · Pub. L. 111–260 (2010)
n/aU.S.-facing services that distribute video previously aired on TV, or that provide advanced communications services (VoIP, video calls, messaging).
Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018
Government Digital Service · SI 2018/952
n/aUK public-sector bodies — government departments, local councils, NHS trusts, universities, and most public-funded organizations.
UK Equality Act 2010 (digital provisions)
Equality and Human Rights Commission · 2010 c. 15
n/aAny organization providing services to the UK public — including online services, e-commerce, and SaaS.
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative · Editor's Draft
n/aReference standard for any team building custom interactive components or design-system primitives.

Email health

StandardVerdictFactorsNote
DMARC
IETF · RFC 7489
n/aEvery domain that sends email — and every domain that doesn't (to prevent spoofing).
SPF
IETF · RFC 7208
n/aEvery domain that sends email.
DKIM
IETF · RFC 6376
n/aEvery domain that sends email.
BIMI
AuthIndicators Working Group · Working draft
n/aOptional but high-leverage for email-driven businesses.
MTA-STS
IETF · RFC 8461
n/aDomains receiving email at scale, especially those handling sensitive correspondence.
SMTP TLS Reporting (TLS-RPT)
IETF · RFC 8460
n/aEvery domain that publishes an MTA-STS or DANE policy.
Authenticated Received Chain (ARC)
IETF · RFC 8617
n/aDomains operating mailing lists, forwarders, or security gateways — and anyone whose users heavily forward mail.
DMARC Failure Reports (RUF)
IETF · RFC 7489 §7.3
n/aSenders investigating active spoofing campaigns or running mature email-security operations.
DKIM key rotation
IETF / M3AAWG · RFC 6376 + M3AAWG BCP
n/aEvery domain that signs outbound mail with DKIM.
SPF 10-DNS-lookup limit
IETF · RFC 7208 §4.6.4
n/aAny domain whose SPF record uses three or more `include:` terms.
Bulk-sender requirements (Apple / Google / Yahoo)
Google / Yahoo / Apple · Effective Feb 2024
n/aAnyone sending more than 5,000 messages/day to Gmail or Yahoo addresses — most marketing senders.
Mailbox provider feedback loops (FBL)
Yahoo / Microsoft / Google · Per-provider
n/aAny sender pushing meaningful volume to Yahoo, Microsoft, or Google inboxes.

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