meta.com

Readiness by lane

Green: meta.com. Thin bar: VR & Metaverse peer median.

Priority fixes for meta.com

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   Certificate has more than 14 days left

   Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc was due to expire on 2026-10-30 (7 days after the check).

   Why it matters: An expired certificate makes browsers show a full-page warning. Renewing well ahead of expiry leaves time to fix a failed renewal.

   What to do: Automate renewal with ACME (for example Let's Encrypt or your CDN's managed certificates) and add a renewal review to your release calendar so any certificate inside 21 days of expiry gets attention.

   80% of VR & Metaverse 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 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 11 images and none used loading="lazy".

   What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.

   75% of VR & Metaverse peers do this.

   Guide: Lazy Loading Without Broken Pages

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 11 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.

   25% of VR & Metaverse peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 9 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.

   20% of VR & Metaverse peers do this.

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

What meta.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of VR & Metaverse peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com.20% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.20% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.meta.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-10-30

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

641 KB, br

Images on homepage

11 (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.

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