Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026

goal.com

goal.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 677 Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games sites.

Readiness index: 74/100
Ahead of: 85%
Practices observed: 20/30
Popularity band: Top 1K

Measured 2026-10-23 11:25:16 UTC from one location. How we measure

Readiness by lane

Green: goal.com. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.

Enable

71/100

Peers 82

Harden

68/100

Peers 51

Accelerate

90/100

Peers 63

Recover

0/100

Peers 16

Priority fixes for goal.com

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

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.
77% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy 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
Priority 2 · Harden
HSTS kept for at least a year
Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.
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 Next.js: Add the header in the headers() option of next.config.js for all routes.
27% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
Priority 3 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 198-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.
70% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
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.
34% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.
Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

What goal.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.

Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.16% of peers
Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.18% of peers
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.32% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked: https://www.goal.com/
Homepage response: HTTP 200, after 1 redirect
TLS: TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
Certificate: DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-30
Platform or framework: Next.js
DNS operators: Amazon Route 53
DMARC policy: p=quarantine
Homepage HTML: 1,892 KB, gzip
Images on homepage: 592 (png 702, jpg 388, webp 6, gif 5, svg 2)

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.

Next.js readiness playbook Amazon Route 53 (dns operator)DigiCert (certificate authority)Service guide: AWS (Amazon Web Services)

All 31 checks

Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works

Not observed 10

Observed 20

HTTP requests move to HTTPS
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Certificate has more than 14 days left
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Framing restricted
Content Security Policy present
Referrer-Policy set
HTTP/2 negotiated
HTML compressed
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Modern image formats in use
Offscreen images lazy-loaded
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Canonical URL declared
Meta description written
Mobile viewport configured
Social preview image set
Page language declared
At most one redirect to the homepage

Not measured 1

robots.txt published

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