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Tech stack: what your infrastructure gives away
HTTP protocol, compression, caching, CDN, library versions — the layer nobody sees, and which constrains everything above it.
- Weight in the score
- 6/100
- checks in this category
- 20
Why it matters
Serving over HTTP/1.1 without compression undoes part of the optimisation work done higher up. A JavaScript library with a publicly documented flaw is exploitable by anyone who can read a security advisory. These are fixed at the server or build level, once, for every page.
The checks that run
The list below is the audit's own, generated from its catalogue — it follows the product rather than describing it from memory.
- No end-of-life AngularJS (1.x) detected
- No deprecated web APIs used
- No source maps exposed in production
- No end-of-life (EOL) technology detected
- Bootstrap up-to-date (4+) if used
- CMS detected up-to-date (if applicable)
- Gzip/Brotli compression active
- Appropriate caching headers
- Vary header present if compression active
- X-Powered-By header hidden
- HSTS with preload directive
- Server information detected without major risk
- jQuery up-to-date (3.5+) if used
- Analytics tools detected compliant
- Monitoring tools detected without data leaks
- Technical stack successfully detected
- Database technology not dangerously exposed
- Single Google Tag Manager container
- Single major JS framework loaded
- Technology versions not exposed
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A free scan runs these checks and those of the other 10 categories, and returns the detail of every failure with its fix.
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- Website security: what an audit actually checks
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- Technical SEO audit: the foundations before the keywords
- Content quality: readability, structure and intent
- Design and accessibility: what can be measured objectively
- Visibility to generative AI (GEO)
- Business information: what a visitor looks for and cannot find
- Mobile friendliness: beyond responsive layout
- Web analytics: knowing what happens on your site
- Performance budgets: thresholds, not impressions