Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
dating.com
dating.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 218 Dating Apps sites.
- Readiness index
- 75/100
- Ahead of
- 86%
- Practices observed
- 21/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Dating Apps median 58
of measured Dating Apps sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: dating.com. Thin bar: Dating Apps peer median.
Enable
92/100
Peers 71
Harden
75/100
Peers 52
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 53
Recover
0/100
Peers 7
Priority fixes for dating.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script without async or defer.
Why it matters: A plain <script src> in the head stops the browser from showing anything until that file has downloaded and run.
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.
54% of Dating Apps peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, 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.
35% of Dating Apps peers do this.
Priority 3 · Enable
Social preview image set
Observed: The homepage had no og:image, so shared links may show without a preview image.
What to do: Add Open Graph tags, including og:image with a 1200 x 630 image.
57% of Dating Apps peers do this.
Priority 4 · Accelerate
HTTP/3 advertised
Observed: The homepage did not advertise HTTP/3 through an Alt-Svc header.
What to do: Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.
On Cloudflare: Enable HTTP/3 (with QUIC) under Speed > Optimization > Protocol Optimization.
18% of Dating Apps peers do this.
What dating.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Dating Apps peers use.
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.22% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.23% of peers
- Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.27% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.dating.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-11-27
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare
- DNS operators
- Akamai Edge DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 267 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 58 (png 41, webp 16, jpg 9, svg 5)
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 10
Observed 21
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- 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
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: dating.com. This profile covers configuration only.