mapquest.com

Readiness by lane

Green: mapquest.com. Thin bar: GPS Navigation & Maps peer median.

Priority fixes for mapquest.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   robots.txt published

   Observed: No robots.txt file was returned at the site root.

   Why it matters: robots.txt is where crawlers look first for crawl rules and sitemap locations. Without it, they assume everything is open.

   What to do: Publish /robots.txt with any crawl rules you need and a Sitemap: line pointing to your XML sitemap.

   84% of GPS Navigation & Maps peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

   Guide: Robots.txt Guide: Control Crawling Without Hiding Mistakes

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.

   71% of GPS Navigation & Maps 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 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.

   63% of GPS Navigation & Maps peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: The DMARC policy for mapquest.com was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.

   What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.

   38% of GPS Navigation & Maps peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What mapquest.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of GPS Navigation & Maps peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, digicert.com, letsencrypt.org and others.18% of peers
• Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.35% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age.38% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.mapquest.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-01-27

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 365 days

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

300 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

11 (svg 15, webp 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.

All 31 checks

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