# BeaverCheck Audit Report — https://creativecommons.org

**Date:** July 20, 2026  
**URL:** https://creativecommons.org  
**Overall Grade:** B (84/100)  
**Report:** https://beavercheck.com/results/99afc75c-e6a6-4aab-afc0-5024fdd89d77

## 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]** Page weighs 23.0 MB (22.4 MB transferred) — Performance > Page Weight Budget
5. **[CRITICAL]** 1 control(s) without accessible label — Accessibility > Form Accessibility

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## Lighthouse Scores

| Category | Score |
|----------|-------|
| Performance | 67 |
| Accessibility | 100 |
| Best Practices | 100 |
| SEO | 92 |

---

## 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
- **[INFO]** Domain is not in the Chrome HSTS preload list (status: rejected) — Submit your domain to hstspreload.org to close the trust-on-first-use gap. Requires a preload-ready HSTS header (max-age=31536000+, includeSubDomains, preload).

### 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.
- **[INFO]** OCSP stapling not enabled — Without stapling, the browser performs a separate OCSP roundtrip on first connection -- adding latency and leaking the visited host to the CA. Enable OCSP stapling on your TLS server.
- **[PASS]** Certificate is valid (expires in 73 days)
- **[PASS]** Certificate chain has 3 certificates
- **[PASS]** Certificate uses modern signature algorithm
- **[PASS]** Certificate covers 2 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

### Cookie Hygiene (A+ — 100/100)

*No cookies set -- cookie-hygiene check is N/A*

- **[PASS]** No cookies set

### WAF / Bot Protection (A — 90/100)

*Cloudflare*

- **[PASS]** Cloudflare detected — Detected via: cf-ray: a1e211480d8ed0a2-CDG

### security.txt (C — 60/100)

*No security.txt file found*

- **[INFO]** No security.txt file found — security.txt (RFC 9116) provides a standardized way for security researchers to report vulnerabilities. Create one at /.well-known/security.txt with at least a Contact field.

### Cross-Origin Tab Safety (D — 60/100)

*4 of 4 new-tab link(s) missing rel=noopener*

- **[WARNING]** 4 link(s) open in a new tab without rel=noopener — Without rel="noopener", the destination tab can navigate the original tab via window.opener -- a reverse-tabnabbing phishing primitive. Modern browsers default to noopener since Chrome 88 / Firefox 79 / Safari 12.1, but explicit rel="noopener noreferrer" remains the documented best practice for older browsers, in-app webviews, and security scanners.

### CSP Inline-Style Readiness (A+ — 100/100)

*No inline style attributes -- strict CSP is feasible*

- **[PASS]** No inline style attributes detected

### Trusted Types (XSS Sink Hardening) (A+ — 100/100)

*No CSP header -- Trusted Types check is N/A*

- **[PASS]** No CSP header found -- Trusted Types check is N/A

### Bot Challenge Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*Scan reached real page content (no bot-protection interstitial)*

- **[PASS]** No bot-protection interstitial detected -- the rest of the report reflects the real page

### Soft-404 Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*No soft-404 patterns detected in page title or headings*

- **[PASS]** No soft-404 patterns detected in page title or headings

### Empty Page Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*Page has substantive body text and no placeholder / template-leak signals*

- **[PASS]** Page has substantive body text and no placeholder / template-leak signals

### Geo-Restriction Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*No geo-restriction signals detected -- scan reached the page from an allowed region*

- **[PASS]** No geo-restriction detected

### Maintenance Mode Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*No maintenance-mode signals detected -- scan reached a normal page*

- **[PASS]** No maintenance-mode signals detected

### Subresource Integrity Adoption (F — 30/100)

*0% SRI adoption (0/1 third-party resources)*

- **[WARNING]** SRI adoption: 0/1 third-party resources protected (0%) — Of 1 third-party `<script>` / `<link rel=stylesheet>` resources, 0 (0%) declare a Subresource Integrity hash via the `integrity=` attribute. SRI binds the page to the exact bytes of the third-party resource: if the CDN is compromised, attacker-modified bytes won't match the declared hash and the browser refuses to execute the resource.

Missing SRI on (first 1 examples):
  - //www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-J83GSCH0LS

Fix: add `integrity="sha384-..."` and `crossorigin="anonymous"` attributes. Generators: srihash.org, or in-browser via `await crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-384', bytes)`. Cache-bust the resource URL when you change versions, since the integrity hash will mismatch with old cached bytes.

### CORS Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*No CORS response headers -- the resource is same-origin-only by browser default*

- **[PASS]** No CORS response headers -- the resource is same-origin-only by browser default

### Permissions-Policy Granularity (C — 60/100)

*No Permissions-Policy header set -- powerful features (camera / microphone / geolocation / payment / USB) default to allow-on-same-origin*

- **[WARNING]** Permissions-Policy header not set -- features default to allow-on-same-origin — Without a `Permissions-Policy` (or legacy `Feature-Policy`) header, every powerful browser feature defaults to its spec default policy (typically `self`). A third-party iframe injected via XSS or a misconfigured embed can still request access to the user's camera, microphone, geolocation, payment APIs, USB devices, etc. Explicitly deny features the page doesn't need:

```
Permissions-Policy: camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=(), payment=(), usb=(), accelerometer=(), gyroscope=()
```

Features the page legitimately uses can stay enabled with `feature=(self)`.

### Referrer-Policy Strictness (B — 75/100)

*Referrer-Policy header not set -- browser default applies (modern: strict-origin-when-cross-origin; legacy browsers: no-referrer-when-downgrade)*

- **[INFO]** Referrer-Policy header not set -- browser default applies — Without an explicit `Referrer-Policy` header, the browser falls back to its default policy. Modern browsers (Chrome 85+, Firefox 87+, Safari 15+) default to `strict-origin-when-cross-origin`, which is privacy-safe. Legacy browsers default to the leaky `no-referrer-when-downgrade`, which sends the full URL (including path + query) on cross-origin HTTPS-to-HTTPS requests. Set an explicit header to ensure consistent behavior:

```
Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
```

This matches the modern browser default and is privacy-safe without breaking referrer-based same-origin analytics.

### Source Map Exposure (A+ — 100/100)

*No source maps accessible (probed 3 candidate URL(s))*

- **[PASS]** No source maps accessible across 3 probed candidate(s)

### HTML Version Disclosure (A+ — 100/100)

*No software-version disclosures in HTML*

- **[PASS]** No software-version disclosures in HTML

### Open Redirect Surface (A+ — 100/100)

*No redirect-shaped query parameters in DOM links*

- **[PASS]** No redirect-shaped query parameters in DOM links

### Auth Security (A+ — 100/100)

*Page is not a login form -- auth-security checks are N/A*

- **[PASS]** Page does not appear to be a login form

### Subdomain Inventory Exposure (A+ — 100/100)

*No risky subdomain names in certificate SANs*

- **[PASS]** No risky subdomain names in certificate SANs

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## Advanced Security

### Subresource Integrity (F — 20/100)

*0 of 1 external resources have SRI*

- **[WARNING]** External script from www.googletagmanager.com 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 (D — 52/100)

*DMARC: none, SPF: ~all, DKIM*

- **[WARNING]** DMARC policy is none — monitoring only — This only monitors, it doesn't block spoofed emails. Change to p=quarantine or p=reject after monitoring DMARC reports.
- **[INFO]** SPF ends in ~all (soft fail) — Soft fail tells receivers to accept-but-mark unauthorized mail. Migrate to -all once you've confirmed all legitimate senders are listed (DMARC aggregate reports help verify).
- **[PASS]** DKIM configured (selectors: google, k2, s2, s1)
- **[INFO]** MTA-STS not configured — MTA-STS forces inbound mail to use TLS, preventing downgrade attacks. Requires both a TXT record at _mta-sts.<domain> and a policy file at https://mta-sts.<domain>/.well-known/mta-sts.txt.
- **[INFO]** TLS-RPT not configured — TLS-RPT (RFC 8460) lets MTAs report TLS-handshake failures, so you can detect and fix MTA-STS misconfigurations. Add a TXT record at _smtp._tls.<domain>.
- **[INFO]** BIMI not configured — BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) lets supporting clients (Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo) display your verified logo next to your messages. Optional but raises trust signals. Requires DMARC at p=quarantine or p=reject to be honored.

### API Surface (A+ — 100/100)

*No API specs or GraphQL introspection found (probed 11 candidate path(s))*

- **[PASS]** No API specs or GraphQL introspection found (probed 11 path(s))

### 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 (B — 80/100)

*No CORS headers*

- **[PASS]** No CORS headers present — secure default

---

## Performance

### Page Weight Budget (F — 0/100)

*22.4 MB transferred, 47 requests*

- **[CRITICAL]** Page weighs 23.0 MB (22.4 MB transferred)
- **[WARNING]** Images are 22.1 MB — compress or use modern formats — Convert images to WebP/AVIF and resize to display dimensions to reduce transfer size.
- **[PASS]** 47 HTTP requests
- **[INFO]** Estimated 4.7 g CO2 per page load

### Third-Party Impact (A+ — 100/100)

*1% third-party, 0 ms blocking*

- **[INFO]** Third-party code accounts for 1% of page weight (172.8 KiB of 22.4 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)

*19 images, 0 KB saveable*

- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/202... is missing width/height — may cause layout shift — Set explicit width and height to prevent CLS.

### JS Execution Cost (C — 60/100)

*1423ms total JS execution*

- **[WARNING]** Unattributable: 656ms CPU time
- **[WARNING]** https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-J83G...: 426ms CPU time
- **[WARNING]** https://creativecommons.org/: 341ms CPU time
- **[INFO]** Third-party scripts: 426ms (30% of total)

### Font Loading (A+ — 100/100)

*4 fonts (101 KB)*

- **[INFO]** 4 font(s) use font-display: swap (FOUT risk but functional)

### JS Bundles (B — 80/100)

*5 scripts, 56 KB unused*

- **[WARNING]** https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-J83G...: 56 KB unused (33%) — Consider code splitting or tree shaking to reduce unused code.
- **[INFO]** Total unused JavaScript: 56 KB

### 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

### HTTP/3 (QUIC) (B — 75/100)

*HTTP/3 not advertised*

- **[INFO]** HTTP/3 (QUIC) is not advertised — HTTP/3 isn't advertised via Alt-Svc and the worker didn't negotiate h3. HTTP/3 reduces handshake latency (1-RTT instead of 2-3 RTTs) and is more resilient on lossy connections. Most modern CDNs (Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN) support HTTP/3 with a single config switch -- consider enabling for mobile-heavy workloads.

### Compression Algorithm (A+ — 100/100)

*Main response uses brotli*

- **[PASS]** Main HTML response uses brotli (Content-Encoding: br) — Brotli is the best text-compression algorithm for general use, ~20% smaller than gzip on average (40% on smaller files). Modern browsers all support it.

### LCP Image Preload (A+ — 100/100)

*LCP preload audit not available*

- **[PASS]** LCP image preload audit not available for this scan

### Main HTML Cache-Control (B — 80/100)

*No Cache-Control header on main HTML response*

- **[INFO]** Main HTML response has no Cache-Control header — Without an explicit Cache-Control, browsers fall back to heuristic caching (~10% of Last-Modified age). Set `Cache-Control: no-cache` or `max-age=300` for HTML to control freshness explicitly -- prevents stale auth state and SPA shell drift.

### Server-Timing Observability (B — 85/100)

*No Server-Timing header found*

- **[INFO]** No Server-Timing header found — Server-Timing exposes backend timing breakdowns to browser DevTools (e.g., `db: 45ms; render: 120ms; cache: 2ms`). Useful for diagnosing slow pages without backend log access. Most modern frameworks (Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, Fastly) emit it automatically; absence on a managed platform usually means telemetry headers are stripped at the edge.

### Server Response Intelligence (A+ — 100/100)

*2 server-response signal(s) detected*

- **[PASS]** `Vary` header declared: Accept-Encoding — The page declares a `Vary` header, telling downstream caches which request headers the response varies on. Critical for content-negotiated responses (compression, language, cookies, device class).
- **[PASS]** `Last-Modified` present -- timestamp-based conditional GET supported — Consider also setting `ETag` for stronger revalidation -- ETags are content hashes that don't suffer from clock-skew or DST issues. Last-Modified alone is functional for conditional GETs and not a bug.

### Page Weight Inventory (C — 60/100)

*47 resources · 22.4 MB · 56 KB savings available*

- **[WARNING]** Page weight 22.4 MB exceeds 1 MB target by 21.4 MB
- **[INFO]** ~56 KB of savings available
- **[INFO]** 9 third-party resources (1% of weight)
- **[INFO]** 11 resources over 200KB

### Render-Blocking Resources (A+ — 100/100)

*No render-blocking resources detected*

- **[PASS]** No render-blocking resources detected in <head>

### Third-Party Resources (A+ — 100/100)

*No third-party resources detected*


### JavaScript Blocking (A — 88/100)

*1 JS blocking issue(s) detected*

- **[WARNING]** 3 render-blocking <script src> tag(s) without async/defer — Each `<script src=...>` without `async`, `defer`, or `type="module"` blocks HTML parsing while the browser fetches and executes it. The block lasts the entire round-trip + execution time -- on slow networks this translates directly into LCP delay. Add `defer` (executes after parse, in source order) for scripts that interact with the DOM, or `async` (executes whenever ready) for analytics / independent scripts. Module scripts (`type="module"`) are deferred by default.

### CSS Performance Depth (A — 92/100)

*1 CSS depth issue(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** 1 `@import` rule(s) in inline `<style>` blocks -- chains an extra round-trip — Each `@import` in CSS forces a serial dependency: the parent stylesheet must download and parse before the browser even knows which URL to fetch next. This used to be catastrophic on HTTP/1.1; HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 multiplexing make it less painful but still strictly worse than declaring `<link rel="stylesheet">` siblings. Replace `@import url(...)` with `<link rel="stylesheet" href="...">` in HTML so the browser discovers and fetches in parallel.

---

## Content Quality

### Links (B — 80/100)

*119 links checked, 115 healthy, 4 broken*

- **[CRITICAL]** 115 of 119 links are healthy
- **[WARNING]** Broken link: https://creativecommons.org/xmlrpc.php?rsd — Found in <link href>. Returns HTTP 403.
- **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/714877 — Found in <a href>. Returns HTTP 429.
- **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39664 — Found in <a href>. Returns HTTP 429.
- **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://mail.creativecommons.org/subscribe — Found in <a href>. Get "https://mail.creativecommons.org/subscribe": tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

### Mixed Content (A+ — 100/100)

*No mixed content detected — all resources use HTTPS.*

- **[PASS]** No mixed content detected — all resources use HTTPS

### Open Graph (C — 70/100)

*Open Graph tags are partially configured — some improvements recommended.*

- **[WARNING]** Missing og:description — The og:description tag controls the description in social sharing previews.
- **[WARNING]** Missing og:image — The og:image tag provides a preview image for social sharing.

### Open Graph / Twitter Card Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*OG image dimensions and Twitter card configuration look healthy*

- **[PASS]** OG/Twitter Card depth is clean -- dimensions, card type, and inheritance all valid

### 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

### Rich Results Eligibility (A+ — 100/100)

*1 JSON-LD block(s) declaring 3 schema type(s)*

- **[PASS]** SiteLinks Search Box markup detected — The page declares a `WebSite` schema with a `potentialAction` of `SearchAction`. This makes the homepage eligible for Google's in-SERP search box -- a high-visibility SERP feature for branded queries.
- **[PASS]** 3 rich-result schema type(s) declared — Inventory of structured-data types on the page (each may unlock a different SERP feature):

BreadcrumbList, WebPage, WebSite

Search engines decide whether to render rich results based on content quality + page-level signals; declaring the schema is necessary but not sufficient.

### Image Optimization (F — 25/100)

*7 issues found across 18 images*

- **[WARNING]** 12 images significantly larger than display size — Resizing to display dimensions could save approximately 17242 KB.
- **[WARNING]** 18 images missing explicit width/height — Images without dimensions cause layout shifts (CLS). Set explicit width and height attributes.
- **[INFO]** 17 below-fold images missing loading="lazy" — Lazy loading defers below-fold images, reducing initial page weight.
- **[WARNING]** All 18 images use legacy formats (JPEG/PNG/GIF) — WebP offers 25-35% smaller files than JPEG. Use <picture> with <source type="image/webp"> for modern format support.
- **[WARNING]** Total image weight: 23915 KB (23.4 MB) — Consider compressing images, using modern formats, and serving appropriately sized images.
- **[INFO]** 1 image(s) wider than 400px without srcset (no responsive serving) — These images deliver the same asset to every viewport (mobile, tablet, retina). Adding srcset / <picture> lets the browser pick a viewport-appropriate variant and typically saves 40-70% of bytes on mobile. Sample: https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/OH-Companion-Graphic-1024x576.jpg.
- **[INFO]** 4 image(s) rendered at a different aspect ratio than the source — The displayed dimensions distort the source -- CSS is forcing the image into a container at the wrong ratio, producing visible stretching or squashing. Either crop the source to match or use object-fit: cover (and accept the crop). Sample: https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/OH-Companion-Graphic-1024x576.jpg, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Social-Header-1-1024x576.png, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Social-Header-1024x576.png (+1 more).

### Autoplay Media (A+ — 100/100)

*No autoplay media on the page*

- **[PASS]** No autoplay media on the page

---

## Infrastructure

### DNS Records (A+ — 100/100)

*2 A records, 29 ms lookup*

- **[PASS]** Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)
- **[PASS]** Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)
- **[PASS]** 2 nameserver(s) configured
- **[PASS]** 8 mail exchanger(s) configured
- **[PASS]** SPF record present in TXT
- **[PASS]** DNS resolution time: 29 ms

### Subdomain Takeover (A+ — 100/100)

*No subdomain takeover risk detected*

- **[PASS]** No CNAME record present

### DNSSEC (C — 55/100)

*Zone signed but parent has no DS record*

- **[WARNING]** DNSSEC keys published but parent zone has no DS record — The zone publishes DNSKEY records but the registry has not been updated with the corresponding DS record. From a validating resolver's perspective the domain is unsigned. Submit the DS record to your registrar to complete the delegation.

### CAA Records (B — 80/100)

*No CAA records (any CA may issue certificates)*

- **[INFO]** No CAA records published — Without CAA records, any publicly-trusted CA can issue certificates for this domain. Adding a CAA record (`yourdomain. IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"`) restricts issuance to CAs you authorize. Required by CAB Forum baseline since 2017; the default of 'any CA' is widely supported but is the broader attack surface for issuance fraud.

### Reverse DNS (C — 60/100)

*0/4 IPs match cert SAN*

- **[INFO]** PTR lookup failed for 104.20.6.134: lookup 104.20.6.134: no such host — No reverse DNS record set for this IP. Common on bare cloud-VM IPs without provider-side PTR; not a security issue.
- **[INFO]** PTR lookup failed for 104.20.5.134: lookup 104.20.5.134: no such host — No reverse DNS record set for this IP. Common on bare cloud-VM IPs without provider-side PTR; not a security issue.
- **[INFO]** PTR lookup failed for 2606:4700:10::6814:686: lookup 2606:4700:10::6814:686: no such host — No reverse DNS record set for this IP. Common on bare cloud-VM IPs without provider-side PTR; not a security issue.
- **[INFO]** PTR lookup failed for 2606:4700:10::6814:586: lookup 2606:4700:10::6814:586: no such host — No reverse DNS record set for this IP. Common on bare cloud-VM IPs without provider-side PTR; not a security issue.

### Multi-Resolver DNS Speed (A+ — 100/100)

*Mean 16ms across 3 resolvers (spread 26ms)*

- **[PASS]** Quad9: 2ms
- **[PASS]** Cloudflare: 19ms
- **[PASS]** Google: 28ms

### Redirect Chain (A+ — 100/100)

*No redirects — direct access*

- **[PASS]** No redirects — direct access

### IPv6 Readiness (A+ — 100/100)

*IPv6 reachable (17 ms)*

- **[PASS]** IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2606:4700:10::6814:686, 2606:4700:10::6814:586

### Crawlability (A+ — 100/100)

*robots.txt present, sitemap with 18 URLs*

- **[PASS]** robots.txt is present
- **[PASS]** sitemap.xml is present
- **[PASS]** sitemap.xml is valid XML
- **[PASS]** sitemap.xml contains 18 entries
- **[PASS]** Sitemap index with 18 child sitemaps
- **[PASS]** robots.txt references sitemap

### URL Variants (A — 90/100)

*www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS*

- **[PASS]** www/non-www redirect configured correctly (preferred: non-www)
- **[WARNING]** HTTP→HTTPS redirect uses 302 instead of 301

### Domain Intelligence (A+ — 100/100)

*creativecommons.org — via Gandi SAS, 25 years, 10 months old*

- **[PASS]** Domain registered until Jan 15, 2028 (1 years, 6 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: Gandi SAS
- **[WARNING]** Registrar lock is NOT enabled — The domain can be transferred without an unlock step. Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) in your registrar's control panel to protect against unauthorized or accidental transfers.

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## Compliance

### WCAG Compliance (A+ — 100/100)

*No testable criteria*


### Cookie Consent & Privacy (A+ — 100/100)

*privacy policy found*

- **[PASS]** Privacy policy link found
- **[PASS]** Terms of service link found
- **[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.

### Consent UX Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*No consent-UX depth issues detected*

- **[PASS]** No consent-UX depth issues detected

### Tracker Inventory (A+ — 100/100)

*1 known tracker(s) detected*

- **[PASS]** 1 known tracker(s) detected — Inventory of trackers loaded by the page (matched against a curated SDK URL registry):

analytics: Google Analytics 4

Each entry maps a script URL pattern to a known vendor SDK. This is purely informational -- consent posture / pre-consent firing is graded by the consent analyzer.

### Language & i18n (A — 90/100)

*Lang attribute present*

- **[PASS]** <html lang> attribute is present
- **[PASS]** <html lang> value is valid
- **[INFO]** No Content-Language HTTP header
- **[INFO]** Language signals are inconsistent — The <html lang> attribute and Content-Language header should agree.

### Hreflang Configuration (A+ — 100/100)

*No hreflang tags on this page*

- **[PASS]** No hreflang tags found (single-language site)

### Internationalization Extras (A+ — 100/100)

*No additional i18n signals detected*

- **[PASS]** No additional i18n signals detected

### 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

### Accessibility Statement (B — 70/100)

*No accessibility statement detected*

- **[WARNING]** No accessibility statement detected — Sites are increasingly expected to publish an accessibility statement. Required by EU Web Accessibility Directive 2016/2102 for public-sector bodies; recommended best practice elsewhere. Common URLs: /accessibility, /accessibility-statement, /a11y.

### GDPR Article 13 Disclosures (D — 50/100)

*4 / 8 Art. 13 categories matched in homepage body*

- **[WARNING]** GDPR Article 13 disclosure coverage: 4 / 8 categories — Scanned the homepage body text AND the linked /privacy page for GDPR Article 13 disclosures. Matched 4 of 8 categories: Data subject rights (access, erasure, rectification, etc.), International data transfers, Legal basis for processing, Recipients of personal data. Missing: Data Protection Officer contact (where applicable), Data retention period, Identity / contact details of the data controller, Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Note: only the FIRST same-origin privacy-policy link is followed; deeper sub-pages (e.g. /legal/data-subject-rights) are not fetched.

### Third-Party Trackers (A+ — 95/100)

*4 trackers detected*

- **[INFO]** 4 third-party trackers detected — Found 3 analytics, 0 advertising, 0 marketing, 1 tag manager, 0 session-replay, 0 heatmap trackers.

### Cookie & Tracker Inventory (A+ — 100/100)

*0 cookies · 4 trackers · 0 pre-consent*

- **[INFO]** 4 third-party tracker(s) detected on page

### Tracking Pixel Inventory (A+ — 100/100)

*No tracking pixels detected*

- **[PASS]** No tracking pixels detected

### Browser Fingerprinting (A+ — 100/100)

*No browser-fingerprinting libraries detected*

- **[PASS]** No browser-fingerprinting libraries detected

### Cross-Site Cookies (SameSite=None) (A+ — 100/100)

*No cookies on the page*

- **[PASS]** No cookies set on the page response

### Beacon Tracking (sendBeacon) (A+ — 100/100)

*No navigator.sendBeacon usage detected in inline scripts*

- **[PASS]** No navigator.sendBeacon usage detected in inline scripts

---

## Legal

### Legal Page Ecosystem (C — 60/100)

*2 of 7 expected legal pages detected*

- **[PASS]** Privacy Policy detected — Found at /privacy, linked from footer.
- **[PASS]** Terms of Service detected — Found at /terms, linked from footer.
- **[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

*2 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]** GDPR indicators detected (moderate confidence) — Indicators suggesting GDPR may be relevant: Privacy policy page found. EU General Data Protection Regulation — governs collection and processing of personal data of EU residents.
- **[INFO]** HIPAA indicators detected (weak confidence) — Indicators suggesting HIPAA may be relevant: Text mentions: phi. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — protects sensitive patient health information.

### Third-Party Data Sharing

*1 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]** 1 third-party services across 1 categories — 1 third-party services detected across 1 categories: Analytics (1). Each of these services receives some user data from your site visitors.
- **[INFO]** Google Analytics (Analytics) — Detected via script URL. Typically collects: Page views, User behavior, Demographics, Device info, IP address. Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Data Processing Agreement available.

### Compliance Badges (C — 55/100)

*0 compliance badge(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** No compliance badges detected — No recognized compliance certification badges or seals were found. This is common — many sites do not display compliance badges.

---

## Availability

### CDN & Delivery (A+ — 100/100)

*Cloudflare (HIT)*

- **[PASS]** Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: CDG)
- **[PASS]** CDN cache status: HIT

### HTTP Caching (F — 35/100)

*No cache headers*

- **[WARNING]** No Cache-Control header found — Browsers will use heuristic caching, which can be unpredictable. Set explicit cache headers.
- **[PASS]** Last-Modified header present

### Operational Status Page (B — 80/100)

*No status page link detected*

- **[INFO]** No operational status page link detected — Status pages communicate planned maintenance and incidents to users -- a hallmark of operationally-mature services. Most SaaS teams publish one via Atlassian Statuspage, Instatus, BetterUptime, or a self-hosted Cachet. Smaller sites legitimately don't need one; flagged as Info, not a failure.

### Transport Security (B — 75/100)

*HTTP/3, HSTS, and TLS version analysis*

- **[INFO]** HTTP/3 (QUIC) not advertised — HTTP/3 eliminates head-of-line blocking. If your CDN supports it, consider enabling it.
- **[WARNING]** Missing Strict-Transport-Security header — HSTS tells browsers to only use HTTPS, preventing SSL stripping attacks.
- **[PASS]** TLS 1.3 in use (fastest handshake, 1-RTT)

### Health Check Endpoint (A+ — 100/100)

*Health endpoint at https://creativecommons.org/health (HTTP 200)*

- **[PASS]** Public health endpoint at https://creativecommons.org/health

### CDN Cache Observability (A+ — 100/100)

*Cache state: HIT*

- **[PASS]** CDN cache state observable via 2 header(s)

---

## Accessibility

### Landmark Structure (A — 90/100)

*11 landmarks*

- **[PASS]** <main> landmark present
- **[PASS]** 3 <nav> landmark(s) found
- **[PASS]** All <nav> elements are properly labeled
- **[PASS]** Skip navigation link present
- **[WARNING]** Skip link target(s) don't exist on page: #main-content-marker — The skip-link anchor (e.g., `href="#main"`) points at an ID that has no corresponding element on the page. Activating the link does nothing -- a silent WCAG 2.4.1 failure that the visual link presence hides. Add `id="main"` (or whichever matches the href) to the target landmark.

### Heading Hierarchy (A+ — 100/100)

*17 headings*

- **[PASS]** Single H1 present

### Heading Text Quality (A+ — 100/100)

*All 17 heading(s) have substantive, well-formed text*

- **[PASS]** Heading text quality is clean -- no placeholder, length, or styling issues

### Alt Text Quality (A+ — 96/100)

*All 18 images OK*

- **[INFO]** 2 image(s) with alt text over 125 characters
- **[PASS]** 11 decorative image(s) correctly marked
- **[PASS]** 5 image(s) with good alt text

### Form Accessibility (B — 77/100)

*2 of 2 controls have issues*

- **[CRITICAL]** 1 control(s) without accessible label — Form controls need a <label>, aria-label, or aria-labelledby for screen readers.
- **[WARNING]** 1 control(s) rely on placeholder only — Placeholder text disappears on focus and is not a reliable label.

### Link & Button Quality (A — 88/100)

*143 links, 8 buttons — all OK*

- **[WARNING]** 4 link(s) open in new tab without warning — Add '(opens in new tab)' to link text or aria-label.
- **[PASS]** 139 link(s) with descriptive text

### Form Input Types (A+ — 95/100)

*1 input(s) using type=text where a specific type would help*

- **[INFO]** Input "s" should use type="search" (currently type="text") — Field name "s" suggests type="search". Wrong type loses mobile keyboard hints, browser autofill, and free format validation. Change to <input type="search">.

### Form Input Quality (A+ — 100/100)

*2 form control(s) checked, no input-semantic issues*

- **[PASS]** All form input semantics look correct

### Mobile Keyboard & Autofill (A+ — 100/100)

*No autofill-eligible form controls*

- **[PASS]** No autofill-eligible form controls (no name/email/tel/address fields)

### Document Language (A+ — 100/100)

*Lang attribute set to "en-US"*

- **[PASS]** <html lang="en-US"> is set and valid

### Tabindex Anti-Patterns (A+ — 100/100)

*No explicit tabindex attributes found*

- **[PASS]** No explicit tabindex attributes found

### Iframe Accessibility (A+ — 100/100)

*No iframes on this page*

- **[PASS]** No iframes on this page

### Tap Target Adequacy (A+ — 100/100)

*All tap targets meet WCAG 2.5.5/2.5.8 sizing*

- **[PASS]** All tap targets meet WCAG 2.5.5 (44x44px) sizing

### Mobile-Readable Font Sizes (A+ — 100/100)

*All 165 visible text node(s) render at >= 12 CSS pixels*

- **[PASS]** All text uses legible mobile font sizes (>= 12 CSS px)

---

## UX

### 404 Error Page (B — 80/100)

*HTTP 404, custom page*

- **[PASS]** Correct 404 status code returned
- **[PASS]** Custom styled 404 page
- **[PASS]** Navigation links present on 404 page
- **[PASS]** Homepage link present on 404 page

### Favicon & Branding (A — 90/100)

*6 icon(s) detected*

- **[PASS]** favicon.ico present at site root
- **[PASS]** HTML icon links detected
- **[PASS]** Apple touch icon present
- **[PASS]** SVG favicon detected — scales perfectly to any size
- **[PASS]** Multiple icon sizes detected

### Web Manifest (F — 35/100)

*Valid manifest*

- **[WARNING]** No name or short_name — Add a name field to identify the app.
- **[PASS]** 192x192 icon present
- **[PASS]** 512x512 icon present

### PWA Depth (B — 75/100)

*3 PWA signal(s) surfaced*

- **[WARNING]** Manifest is missing `display` -- defaults to browser, no PWA UX — When `display` is `browser` (or unset, which is the spec default), the installed app opens in a regular browser tab -- no install prompt, no standalone window, no app-shell experience. The intended values for a PWA are `standalone` (most common; full-screen, no browser chrome) or `fullscreen` (games / immersive apps). `minimal-ui` is a middle ground (basic browser controls but no address bar).
- **[INFO]** Manifest has no maskable icon — Android 12+ Adaptive Icons crop non-maskable icons to a circle or squircle -- frequently hiding important parts of the logo. Add at least one icon entry with `"purpose": "maskable"` (or `"any maskable"`) and a maskable-aware design (16% safe-zone padding around the inner mark).
- **[INFO]** Manifest is missing `theme_color` — Without `theme_color`, the install prompt and Android status bar fall back to a generic tint instead of your brand color. Add a hex color (e.g. `"theme_color": "#0066cc"`); for richer support, mirror it via `<meta name="theme-color" content="#0066cc">` so non-installed browsers also pick it up.

### Dark Mode Support (D — 40/100)

*No dark mode signals*

- **[INFO]** No dark mode signals detected — Consider adding CSS with @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) and <meta name='color-scheme' content='light dark'>.
- **[INFO]** Detection limited to meta tags and inline styles — External CSS files may contain prefers-color-scheme rules not visible to this scan.

### Print Stylesheet (D — 40/100)

*No print styles*

- **[INFO]** No print-specific styles detected — When users print this page, they get the screen layout including navigation and non-essential elements. Add @media print rules to hide navigation and optimize layout for paper.

### Navigation UX (F — 30/100)

*1 navigation pattern(s)*

- **[PASS]** Skip navigation link detected
- **[PASS]** 3 navigation landmark(s) detected

### Mobile UX Depth (A+ — 97/100)

*1 mobile-depth signal(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** No `<meta name="theme-color">` -- browser chrome falls back to default — Without `theme-color`, Android Chrome's status bar and iOS Safari's toolbar fall back to a generic gray. Adding a single hex color in `<meta name="theme-color" content="#0066cc">` tints them to your brand color across all mobile browsers.

---

## SEO

### Canonical URL (A+ — 100/100)

*Properly configured*

- **[PASS]** Canonical tag present
- **[PASS]** Canonical is self-referencing
- **[PASS]** Canonical matches final URL after redirects
- **[PASS]** Canonical target returns 200

### Meta Tags (A — 85/100)

*Title optimized*

- **[PASS]** Page title is set
- **[PASS]** Title length (48 chars) is optimal
- **[WARNING]** No meta description tag found — Without a meta description, Google auto-generates a snippet from page content -- usually less click-attractive than a hand-written summary. Add `<meta name="description" content="...">` with a 70-160 char summary.
- **[PASS]** Title and H1 are well-aligned

### Title Style Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*Title style is clean -- consistent separator, no stale year, no keyword stuffing*

- **[PASS]** Title style is clean

### Content Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*1121 words, Difficult*

- **[PASS]** Page has 1121 words — good depth for search engines
- **[INFO]** Reading level: Difficult (grade 10)

### Internal Links (A+ — 100/100)

*102 internal, 41 external*

- **[PASS]** 102 internal links (71%)
- **[PASS]** 100% of links use descriptive anchor text
- **[INFO]** 102 internal / 41 external links

### Image SEO (A+ — 100/100)

*18 images, 18 descriptive filenames*

- **[PASS]** All images have descriptive filenames

### Hreflang

*0 hreflang tags*


### Hreflang URL Quality (A+ — 100/100)

*No hreflang tags on the page*

- **[PASS]** No hreflang tags on the page

### Hreflang Completeness (A+ — 100/100)

*No hreflang tags on this page -- check is N/A (single-language site or unannotated)*

- **[PASS]** No hreflang tags found -- completeness check is N/A

### Sitemap Freshness (A+ — 100/100)

*Sitemap updated within 90 days (18/18 URLs have lastmod)*

- **[PASS]** Sitemap actively maintained — newest lastmod: 2 days ago

### Sitemap × Robots Consistency (A+ — 100/100)

*No sitemap-vs-robots conflicts detected*

- **[PASS]** Sitemap URLs are not blocked by robots.txt

### Sitemap Hygiene (A+ — 100/100)

*Sitemap structure / size look healthy (18 URLs, 3 KB)*

- **[PASS]** Sitemap structure / size look healthy (18 URLs)

### Markup Quality (A+ — 100/100)

*No markup-quality issues detected*

- **[PASS]** No markup-quality issues detected

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## Sustainability

### CO2 Per Page Load (F — 15/100)

*5.30g CO2 per view*

- **[CRITICAL]** 5.30g CO2 per page view — This page transfers 22.4 MB, producing an estimated 5.30g of CO2 per visit using the Sustainable Web Design model (v4). Breakdown: data center 0.13g, network 1.10g, end-user device 4.07g.
- **[INFO]** At 10,000 monthly views: 636.0 kg CO2/year — With 10,000 page views per month, this page would generate approximately 636.0 kg of CO2 annually — equivalent to charging 79503 smartphones.
- **[PASS]** Green hosting reduces data center emissions

### Green Hosting (A+ — 100/100)

*Green (both)*

- **[PASS]** Both hosting and CDN use renewable energy
- **[INFO]** Cloudflare: Verified by the Green Web Foundation
- **[INFO]** Cloudflare: 100% renewable energy for global network since 2019
- **[INFO]** Green hosting status based on known provider commitments — Green hosting detection uses a curated database of provider renewable energy commitments. This is not a real-time verification. For authoritative checks, visit thegreenwebfoundation.org.

### Repeat Visit Weight (A+ — 100/100)

*100% cached*

- **[PASS]** 100% reduction on repeat visits — Returning visitors download only 14 KB (vs 22930 KB first visit). 46 of 47 resources are served from browser cache, saving 5.30g CO2 per repeat visit.
- **[INFO]** Repeat visit: 0.00g CO2 (first visit: 5.30g)

### Carbon Budget (F — 15/100)

*95th percentile*

- **[WARNING]** 5.30g CO2 — above the median website (0.60g) — Heavier than an estimated 5% of websites. Reducing page weight, optimizing images, and removing unused JavaScript would lower the carbon footprint. See the Performance tab.
- **[INFO]** Estimated 95th percentile — Compared to: top 10% = 0.20g, target = 0.50g, median = 0.60g per page view.

### Transfer Efficiency (A+ — 100/100)

*100% efficient*

- **[PASS]** Transfer efficiency: 100% — Only 55 KB of potential savings identified. Your page is well-optimized for size.

### Web Font Weight Variants (B — 90/100)

*No detectable Google Fonts weights*

- **[INFO]** No detectable Google Fonts weights — The analyzer detects font weights via Google Fonts URL parameters (~70% of font-using sites). Self-hosted fonts and non-Google CDN fonts aren't visible to URL-based detection. If you self-host fonts, manually audit how many @font-face weights you ship -- 2-3 weights per family is typically enough; 5+ is usually unused payload.

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