# BeaverCheck Audit Report — https://rubyonrails.org **Date:** April 4, 2026 **URL:** https://rubyonrails.org **Overall Grade:** C (73/100) **Report:** https://beavercheck.com/results/11968659-fa93-4163-b5e2-f51bc406f68e ## Top Findings 1. **[CRITICAL]** Content-Security-Policy header is missing — Security > Security Headers 2. **[CRITICAL]** HSTS header is missing — Security > Security Headers 3. **[CRITICAL]** No Content-Security-Policy header found — Security > Content Security Policy 4. **[CRITICAL]** No
landmark found — Accessibility > Landmark Structure 5. **[WARNING]** Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy header is missing — Security > Security Headers --- ## Lighthouse Scores | Category | Score | |----------|-------| | Performance | 81 | | Accessibility | 97 | | Best Practices | 100 | | SEO | 100 | --- ## Security ### Security Headers (F — 10/100) *2 of 10 headers properly configured* - **[CRITICAL]** HSTS header is missing — Strict-Transport-Security forces browsers to use HTTPS, preventing downgrade attacks. Add the header with a max-age of at least 1 year. - **[WARNING]** X-Content-Type-Options header is missing — This header prevents MIME-type sniffing, which can lead to XSS attacks. Set it to 'nosniff'. - **[WARNING]** X-Frame-Options header is missing — This header prevents clickjacking by controlling who can embed your page in a frame. Set it to DENY or SAMEORIGIN. - **[WARNING]** Referrer-Policy header is missing — Controls how much referrer information is sent with requests. Set to 'strict-origin-when-cross-origin' or stricter. - **[WARNING]** Permissions-Policy header is missing — Controls which browser features (camera, microphone, geolocation) are allowed. Set it to restrict unused features. - **[CRITICAL]** Content-Security-Policy header is missing — CSP is the most important header for preventing XSS attacks. See the CSP section for detailed analysis. - **[WARNING]** Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy header is missing — COOP isolates your browsing context, preventing cross-origin side-channel attacks. Set to 'same-origin'. - **[WARNING]** Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy header is missing — COEP prevents loading cross-origin resources without explicit permission. Required for SharedArrayBuffer and high-resolution timers. - **[PASS]** X-Powered-By header is not present - **[PASS]** Server header is present without version info ### Content Security Policy (F — 0/100) *No enforcing CSP policy found* - **[CRITICAL]** No Content-Security-Policy header found — CSP is the most effective defense against XSS attacks. Add a Content-Security-Policy header to restrict resource loading. ### TLS & Certificates (A+ — 100/100) *TLS 1.3, 7 checks passed* - **[PASS]** TLS 1.3 is used - **[PASS]** Strong cipher suite is used - **[INFO]** HTTP/2 is not negotiated — HTTP/2 provides multiplexing and header compression for better performance. - **[PASS]** Certificate is valid (expires in 32 days) - **[PASS]** Certificate chain has 2 certificates - **[PASS]** Certificate uses modern signature algorithm - **[PASS]** Certificate covers 1 domain(s) - **[PASS]** Certificate is issued by a trusted CA ### Cookie Security (A+ — 100/100) *No cookies set — no cookie security risks* - **[PASS]** No cookies set — no cookie security risks --- ## Advanced Security ### Subresource Integrity (F — 20/100) *0 of 1 external resources have SRI* - **[WARNING]** External script from plausible.io lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code. ### JS Library Vulnerabilities (A+ — 100/100) *No known vulnerabilities* - **[PASS]** No known JavaScript library vulnerabilities detected ### Information Leakage (A+ — 100/100) *No exposures* - **[INFO]** No security.txt found — Consider adding a security.txt at /.well-known/security.txt. - **[PASS]** No sensitive files exposed ### Email Security (A — 85/100) *DMARC: quarantine* - **[PASS]** DMARC policy is quarantine — good protection ### Permissions-Policy (D — 40/100) *No header set* - **[WARNING]** No Permissions-Policy header — Consider adding a Permissions-Policy header to restrict browser feature access from embedded content. ### CORS Configuration (C — 60/100) *Origin: ** - **[INFO]** Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * — unrestricted — Any website can read this resource's response. Appropriate for public APIs but not for user-specific content. - **[INFO]** Origin reflection not testable with a single request — Some servers reflect the request Origin header. This requires manual testing with a crafted Origin header. --- ## Performance ### Page Weight Budget (C — 63/100) *1.8 MB transferred, 50 requests* - **[INFO]** Page weighs 2.9 MB (1.8 MB transferred) - **[PASS]** 50 HTTP requests - **[INFO]** Estimated 0.37 g CO2 per page load ### Third-Party Impact (D — 50/100) *87% third-party, 0 ms blocking* - **[WARNING]** Third-party code accounts for 87% of page weight (1.6 MiB of 1.8 MiB) - **[PASS]** Third-party blocking time is low (0 ms) ### Text Compression (A+ — 100/100) *All text resources are compressed* - **[PASS]** All text resources are compressed ### Image Optimization (C — 60/100) *33 images, 0 KB saveable* - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-freeage... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-kicksta... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-soundcl... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-doximit... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-shopify... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-dribbbl... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-hey.svg is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-fleetio... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-zendesk... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-airbnb.... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-planets... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-basecam... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-instaca... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-heroku.... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-coinbas... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-interco... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-gusto.s... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-cookpad... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-github.... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-1passwo... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-square.... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-lime.sv... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS. ### JS Execution Cost (D — 40/100) *2491ms total JS execution* - **[WARNING]** https://rubyonrails.org/: 1582ms CPU time - **[WARNING]** Unattributable: 818ms CPU time - **[INFO]** https://plausible.io/js/script.js: 91ms CPU time - **[INFO]** Third-party scripts: 909ms (36% of total) ### Font Loading (A+ — 100/100) *5 fonts (158 KB)* - **[INFO]** 5 font(s) use font-display: swap (FOUT risk but functional) ### JS Bundles (A+ — 100/100) *1 scripts, 0 KB unused* ### Resource Caching (A+ — 100/100) *All resources properly cached* - **[PASS]** No caching issues found ### Critical Rendering Path (A+ — 100/100) *No render-blocking resources* - **[PASS]** No render-blocking resources detected ### Resource Hints (A+ — 100/100) *No optimization needed* - **[PASS]** No resource hint issues --- ## Content Quality ### Links (F — 45/100) *73 links checked, 62 healthy, 11 broken* - **[CRITICAL]** 62 of 73 links are healthy - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://podcast.rubyonrails.org/ — Found in . Get "https://podcast.rubyonrails.org/": context deadline exceeded - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://rubyonrails.org/docs — Found in . Get "https://rubyonrails.org/docs": context deadline exceeded - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://basecamp.com — Found in . Get "https://basecamp.com": context deadline exceeded - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://gusto.com — Found in . Get "https://gusto.com": context deadline exceeded - **[WARNING]** Broken link: https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-zendesk.svg — Found in . Get "https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-zendesk.svg": context deadline exceeded - **[WARNING]** Broken link: https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-soundcloud.svg — Found in . Get "https://rubyonrails.org/assets/images/logo-soundcloud.svg": context deadline exceeded - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://www.doximity.com — Found in . Get "https://www.doximity.com": context deadline exceeded - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://www.freeagent.com/ — Found in . Get "https://www.freeagent.com/": context deadline exceeded - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://www.planetscale.com/ — Found in . Get "https://www.planetscale.com/": context deadline exceeded - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://hotwired.dev — Found in . Get "https://hotwired.dev": context deadline exceeded - **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT — Found in . Get "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT": context deadline exceeded ### Mixed Content (A+ — 100/100) *No mixed content detected — all resources use HTTPS.* - **[PASS]** No mixed content detected — all resources use HTTPS ### Open Graph (A+ — 100/100) *Open Graph tags are well configured for social sharing.* - **[INFO]** og:title is long (72 characters) — Titles over 60 characters may be truncated in social sharing previews. ### Structured Data (A+ — 100/100) *1 JSON-LD block(s) found — structured data is well configured.* - **[PASS]** Custom type "WebPage" — unable to validate specific properties --- ## Infrastructure ### DNS Records (A — 85/100) *1 A records, 5074 ms lookup* - **[PASS]** Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es) - **[INFO]** Single A record — no DNS redundancy — Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down. - **[INFO]** No IPv6 (AAAA) records - **[PASS]** 2 nameserver(s) configured - **[PASS]** 1 mail exchanger(s) configured - **[INFO]** CAA records not checked — CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update. - **[PASS]** SPF record present in TXT - **[WARNING]** DNS resolution is slow (5074 ms) — Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider. ### Redirect Chain (A+ — 100/100) *No redirects — direct access* - **[PASS]** No redirects — direct access ### IPv6 Readiness (C — 60/100) *No IPv6 support* - **[INFO]** No IPv6 (AAAA) records found — IPv6 support is increasingly important for global accessibility. About 40% of internet users have IPv6 connectivity. ### Crawlability (A — 90/100) *no robots.txt, sitemap with 2268 URLs* - **[INFO]** No robots.txt found — robots.txt is optional but recommended. It tells search engine crawlers which pages to index. - **[PASS]** sitemap.xml is present - **[PASS]** sitemap.xml is valid XML - **[PASS]** sitemap.xml contains 2268 entries ### URL Variants (A+ — 100/100) *www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS* - **[PASS]** HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS ### Domain Intelligence (A+ — 100/100) *rubyonrails.org — via Cloudflare, Inc., 22 years, 3 months old, hosted on Fastly* - **[PASS]** Domain registered until Apr 19, 2032 (6 years, 1 months remaining) - **[INFO]** DNSSEC is not enabled — DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it. - **[PASS]** Registrar: Cloudflare, Inc. - **[PASS]** Hosting: Fastly --- ## Compliance ### WCAG Compliance (A+ — 100/100) *No testable criteria* ### Cookie Consent & Privacy (B — 80/100) *No consent signals detected* - **[WARNING]** No privacy policy link detected — A privacy policy page is recommended for transparency and may be legally required. - **[INFO]** No terms of service link detected - **[INFO]** No cookie consent banner detected - **[INFO]** This is an automated check, not legal advice — BeaverCheck detects technical indicators of consent management. This does not constitute a legal compliance assessment. Consult a privacy professional for GDPR/CCPA compliance. ### Language & i18n (A — 90/100) *Lang attribute present* - **[PASS]** attribute is present - **[PASS]** value is valid - **[INFO]** No Content-Language HTTP header - **[INFO]** Language signals are inconsistent — The attribute and Content-Language header should agree. ### Readability & Typography (A+ — 100/100) *Font sizes and tap targets checked* ### Viewport Configuration (A+ — 100/100) *Viewport properly configured* - **[PASS]** Viewport meta tag is present - **[PASS]** width=device-width is set - **[PASS]** User zooming is allowed --- ## Legal ### Legal Page Ecosystem (F — 0/100) *0 of 7 expected legal pages detected* - **[WARNING]** Privacy Policy not detected — No link matching common Privacy Policy URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Privacy Policy, especially those collecting user data. - **[WARNING]** Terms of Service not detected — No link matching common Terms of Service URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Terms of Service, especially those collecting user data. - **[INFO]** Cookie Policy not detected — No link matching common Cookie Policy URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Cookie Policy, especially those collecting user data. - **[INFO]** Accessibility Statement not detected — No link matching common Accessibility Statement URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Accessibility Statement, especially those collecting user data. - **[INFO]** DMCA / Copyright Notice not detected — No link matching common DMCA / Copyright Notice URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a DMCA / Copyright Notice, especially those collecting user data. - **[INFO]** Refund / Returns Policy not detected — No link matching common Refund / Returns Policy URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Refund / Returns Policy, especially those collecting user data. - **[INFO]** Acceptable Use Policy not detected — No link matching common Acceptable Use Policy URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Acceptable Use Policy, especially those collecting user data. ### Copyright Notice (C — 55/100) *No copyright notice detected* - **[INFO]** No copyright notice detected — No copyright notice detected in the page content. While not legally required in most jurisdictions (copyright exists automatically), a notice is standard practice and signals site ownership. ### Regulatory Indicators *0 regulatory indicator(s) detected* - **[INFO]** This is a technical scan, not a legal assessment — BeaverCheck detects technical indicators that may suggest regulatory relevance. This is not a compliance audit and should not be relied upon for legal decisions. Consult qualified legal counsel for compliance assessments. - **[INFO]** No specific regulatory indicators detected — No strong signals for GDPR, CCPA, ADA, PCI, HIPAA, or COPPA were found. This does not mean these regulations don't apply — it means we didn't detect common technical indicators. ### Third-Party Data Sharing *0 third-party service(s) detected* - **[INFO]** Data inventory for transparency purposes — This inventory identifies third-party services that receive data from your site visitors. Under regulations like GDPR (Article 30), maintaining records of data processing activities is commonly considered a best practice. This automated scan provides a starting point — it may not capture all data flows. - **[INFO]** No recognized third-party data-sharing services detected — This page does not appear to load external tracking, analytics, or advertising scripts. ### Compliance Badges (B — 70/100) *1 compliance badge(s) detected* - **[PASS]** Better Business Bureau badge detected — Found via image alt text: 'dribbble'. Note: the presence of a badge does not verify the certification is current or valid. --- ## Availability ### CDN & Delivery (A+ — 100/100) *Fastly (HIT)* - **[PASS]** Site is served via Fastly CDN - **[PASS]** CDN cache status: HIT ### HTTP Caching (A+ — 100/100) *max-age=600 (10 minutes)* - **[PASS]** Cache-Control header is set - **[PASS]** Effective TTL: 10 minutes (max-age=600) - **[PASS]** ETag present — enables conditional (304) responses - **[PASS]** Last-Modified header present --- ## Accessibility ### Landmark Structure (C — 55/100) *2 landmarks* - **[CRITICAL]** No
landmark found — Screen reader users cannot quickly navigate to the primary content. Wrap your main content in
. - **[PASS]** 1