Security headers on 4,688 small-business websites: 49.7% met none of 7 criteria
Definitions used throughout this report and every released file Sampled rows (n=7,040)Directory rows drawn at random. They cover 7,022 unique initial registrable domains. Registrable domainThe domain name made of its last two labels, or three when the second-level part is a common public suffix such as co.uk.
- ▪Definitions used throughout this report and every released file Sampled rows (n=7,040)Directory rows drawn at random.
- ▪They cover 7,022 unique initial registrable domains.
- ▪Registrable domainThe domain name made of its last two labels, or three when the second-level part is a common public suffix such as co.uk.
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| Original publisher | RACKCRUNCH |
| Canonical URL | https://rackcrunch.com/security-headers-2026 |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:42:02 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T21:20:28.007Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T21:20:28.007Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | aRnGFbEmkLAB · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Security Headers on Directory-Listed U.S. Local-Business WebsitesA 2026 study of 7,040 directory-listed U.S. local-business websites: which security headers they send, and which they get wrong.By RACKCRUNCH Team · Scans 2026-09-24 · Also available as a PDF (security-headers-study-2026.pdf, 400 KB, SHA-256 ab7c9e3df139c6ff735c78271947a4ff3a1e7ead3acc762927177dacd42f7d56). Study version 7.3, reproduction pack v2.4. Scans 2026-09-24. See errata, how to cite and artifact hashes. Definitions used throughout this report and every released file Sampled rows (n=7,040)Directory rows drawn at random. They cover 7,022 unique initial registrable domains. Registrable domainThe domain name made of its last two labels, or three when the second-level part is a common public suffix such as co.uk.
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