dndbeyond.com

Readiness by lane

Green: dndbeyond.com. Thin bar: Gaming Platforms & Consoles peer median.

Priority fixes for dndbeyond.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 0 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   What to do: Send Strict-Transport-Security on HTTPS responses. Start with a short max-age (for example 300 seconds), confirm every subdomain works over HTTPS, then raise it in steps to 31536000. Add includeSubDomains only when all subdomains are HTTPS. HSTS preload is optional and hard to undo; hstspreload.org itself does not recommend it by default.

   On Fastly: Add the header in VCL or a header rule as described in Fastly's HSTS guide.

   30% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script 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.

   On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.

   49% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Enable

   Canonical URL declared

   Observed: The homepage did not declare a canonical URL.

   What to do: Add a self-referencing canonical link to every indexable page, using the final https:// URL.

   59% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.

   Guide: Canonical Tags: A Decision Guide for Duplicate URLs

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from GlobalSign nv-sa had a 396-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.

   What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.

   76% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What dndbeyond.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers use.

• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.26% of peers
• Structured data presentJSON-LD structured data found.40% of peers
• Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.43% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.dndbeyond.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

GlobalSign, 396-day validity, expiring 2027-01-29

CDN or edge

Fastly

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 0 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

1,010 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

55 (jpg 4)

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

Stack and providers

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