goodreads.com

Readiness by lane

Green: goodreads.com. Thin bar: Literary & Knowledge peer median.

Priority fixes for goodreads.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   Mobile viewport configured

   Observed: The homepage had no viewport meta tag, so phones may render it zoomed out.

   Why it matters: Without it, phones render the page at desktop width and shrink it, which makes text tiny and hard to use.

   What to do: Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> and check the layout on small screens.

   94% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.

   Guide: Responsive Web Design Checklist for Real Devices

2. Priority 2 · 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.

   69% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 3 external scripts 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.

   48% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 57 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

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

   31% of Literary & Knowledge peers do this.

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

What goodreads.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Literary & Knowledge peers use.

• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.22% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age covering subdomains.28% of peers
• Framing restrictedFraming controls present.37% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.goodreads.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-01-24

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

54 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

57 (jpg 43, svg 8, png 6, gif 1)

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

Stack and providers

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