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Category benchmark · Snapshot 23 October 2026

VR & Metaverse: website readiness

31 configuration checks across 5 VR & Metaverse sites from the SID website catalog, with 5 individual profiles for sites in the Chrome UX Report top 50K.

Sites measured
5

all popularity bands

Median readiness index
66/100

all sites: 64

Profiles
5

top-50K sites

Weakest lane
Recover

lowest weighted score

Readiness by lane

Enable

82/100

All sites 77

Harden

62/100

All sites 56

Accelerate

63/100

All sites 64

Recover

0/100

All sites 10

Biggest gaps for VR & Metaverse sites

The checks with the most room to improve, weighted by impact.

  1. Modern image formats in use

    25% observed · all sites 40%

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

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

  2. No render-blocking scripts in <head>

    20% observed · all sites 48%

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

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

  3. security.txt published

    0% observed · all sites 7.1%

    Publish /.well-known/security.txt with at least Contact and Expires fields, as RFC 9116 requires, and review it before it expires.

    Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

  4. CAA records limit who can issue certificates

    20% observed · all sites 13%

    Publish CAA records naming every CA you actually use, including the CAs your CDN uses for managed certificates. Add an iodef contact if you want reports.

    Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

  5. HTTP/3 advertised

    20% observed · all sites 37%

    Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.

    Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

  6. DNSSEC signed

    0% observed · all sites 8%

    Enable DNSSEC at your DNS provider, then add the DS record at your registrar. Plan provider moves carefully: a stale DS record can make the domain fail to resolve.

    Guide: Website Uptime Readiness: Prepare Before Traffic Arrives

Stack mix

CDN and edge

Platform or framework

DNS operator

Certificate authority

Readiness leaders

VR & Metaverse sites in the top 50K with the highest share of observed practices (at least 26 of 31 checks measured). This lists only what we observed on 23 October 2026; owners can request a correction.

  1. viverse.com76/100
  2. meta.com75/100
  3. vrchat.com66/100
  4. imvu.com60/100
  5. secondlife.com59/100

All 31 checks for VR & Metaverse

CheckLaneObservedAll sitesMeasured
HTTP requests move to HTTPSHarden100%91%5
HSTS kept for at least a yearHarden60%34%5
TLS 1.3 negotiatedHarden80%91%5
Certificate has more than 14 days leftHarden80%99%5
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or lessHarden60%67%5
CAA records limit who can issue certificatesHarden20%13%5
DNSSEC signedHarden0%8%5
security.txt publishedHarden0%7.1%5
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectHarden60%39%5
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffHarden100%48%5
Framing restrictedHarden60%51%5
Content Security Policy presentHarden60%32%5
Referrer-Policy setHarden20%24%5
HTTP/2 negotiatedAccelerate100%90%5
HTTP/3 advertisedAccelerate20%37%5
HTML compressedAccelerate100%93%5
Static files cached for 30 days or moreAccelerate67%51%3
Modern image formats in useAccelerate25%40%4
Offscreen images lazy-loadedAccelerate75%62%4
No render-blocking scripts in <head>Accelerate20%48%5
robots.txt publishedEnable100%76%5
XML sitemap discoverableEnable80%70%5
Reachable over IPv6Enable60%48%5
Canonical URL declaredEnable60%68%5
Meta description writtenEnable80%84%5
Mobile viewport configuredEnable100%94%5
Structured data presentEnable60%51%5
Social preview image setEnable60%57%5
Page language declaredEnable100%90%5
At most one redirect to the homepageEnable80%98%5
Nameservers spread across providersRecover0%10%5

VR & Metaverse profiles

Readiness index shown next to each site.