mcpedl.org

Readiness by lane

Green: mcpedl.org. Thin bar: Gaming Platforms & Consoles peer median.

Priority fixes for mcpedl.org

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   TLS 1.3 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.

   Why it matters: TLS 1.3 removes legacy cipher suites and completes the handshake in fewer round trips, so it is both safer and faster for new connections.

   What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.

   On Cloudflare: Turn on TLS 1.3 under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates.

   90% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. 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 Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.

   30% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

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 WordPress: Since WordPress 6.3, scripts can be registered with a defer or async loading strategy.

   49% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: No DMARC record was found at _dmarc.mcpedl.org.

   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.

   26% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What mcpedl.org already does well

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

• Structured data presentJSON-LD structured data found.40% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.42% of peers
• Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.43% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://mcpedl.org/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.2, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-25

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

Platform or framework

WordPress

DNS operators

Cloudflare

Homepage HTML

240 KB, br

Images on homepage

78 (webp 78, svg 72)

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.

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