Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
chess.com
chess.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 522 Puzzles & Video Games sites.
- Readiness index
- 77/100
- Ahead of
- 91%
- Practices observed
- 23/30
- Popularity band
- Top 1K
Puzzles & Video Games median 60
of measured Puzzles & Video Games sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: chess.com. Thin bar: Puzzles & Video Games peer median.
Enable
85/100
Peers 74
Harden
71/100
Peers 50
Accelerate
85/100
Peers 60
Recover
0/100
Peers 7
Priority fixes for chess.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
HTTP requests move to HTTPS
Observed: A request to http://www.chess.com/ was not redirected to HTTPS.
Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.
What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.
On Cloudflare: Turn on Always Use HTTPS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates.
89% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 28 days, short of the 30-day benchmark.
What to do: Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.
On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.
44% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this.
Priority 3 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
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.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 4 · Harden
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
Observed: No CAA record was found for chess.com, so any public certificate authority may issue for it.
What to do: 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.
On Cloudflare: Cloudflare documents which CAs its managed certificates need; include them in your CAA records.
5.6% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this.
What chess.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Puzzles & Video Games peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.5.4% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.17% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.21% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.chess.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-13
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 118 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 45 (svg 27, webp 1)
Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.
Stack and providers
Seen in the homepage response, certificate and DNS. Provider pages compare how their customers configure the same checks.
All 31 checks
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 7
Observed 23
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 1
- robots.txt published
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: chess.com. This profile covers configuration only.