Thank You—Your Audit is Underway
Next Step: Benchmarking your station Against the 2025 National Standard
We have received your request for a technical audit. Our research team is now preparing to analyze your station’s infrastructure using the same methodology employed in our study of 410 community broadcasters.
What You Can Expect Soon
In the coming days, you will receive a comprehensive Digital Readiness Score. This report is designed specifically for PEG stations where “one person wears six hats”. Your personalized results will include:
- A Prioritized Fix List: We identify which technical gaps—such as missing meta descriptions (found in 54.9% of stations) or lack of XML sitemaps (22.2%)—should be addressed first.
- Security Assessment: A review of your SSL validity and advanced headers like HSTS and CSP, which were found to be universally absent in our recent audit.
- Performance Metrics: An analysis of whether your server uses gzip or brotli compression to reduce file sizes by 60-80%.
- Cost Context: We will help you determine which improvements are simple configuration changes and which might require platform upgrades.
While You Wait: Immediate Insights
To help you prepare for your audit results, we recommend reviewing these key findings from our 2025 PEG Digital Readiness Study
- The Performance Gap: 0% of analyzed stations currently utilize server compression or cache control.
- The Discoverability Paradox: Most stations are actively producing civic content, but 48.3% lack the structured data markup search engines need to find it.
- The Security Standard: While 100% of stations have enabled HTTPS, 0% have implemented protection against clickjacking or cross-site scripting.
“Civic content is critical infrastructure, deserving the same technical standards as commercial media.”
Download the Full 2025 Study Report