boardgamearena.com

Readiness by lane

Green: boardgamearena.com. Thin bar: Puzzles & Video Games peer median.

Priority fixes for boardgamearena.com

Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

   Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.

   Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.

   What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.

   60% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 3 external scripts without async or defer.

   What to do: Add defer to scripts that need the DOM, async to independent ones such as analytics, or move them to the end of the body.

   52% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this.

   Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 16 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.

   On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.

   32% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 16 images and none used loading="lazy".

   What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.

   46% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this.

   Guide: Lazy Loading Without Broken Pages

What boardgamearena.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Puzzles & Video Games peers use.

• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.17% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.21% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age.23% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://boardgamearena.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-19

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 365 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

1,928 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

16 (gif 14, png 1)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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