Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
nfl.com
nfl.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 677 Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games sites.
- Readiness index
- 73/100
- Ahead of
- 83%
- Practices observed
- 19/31
- Popularity band
- Top 5K
Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games median 64
of measured Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: nfl.com. Thin bar: Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peer median.
Enable
87/100
Peers 82
Harden
63/100
Peers 51
Accelerate
78/100
Peers 63
Recover
0/100
Peers 16
Priority fixes for nfl.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
No render-blocking scripts in <head>
Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script without async or defer.
Why it matters: A plain <script src> in the head stops the browser from showing anything until that file has downloaded and run.
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.
43% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 2 · 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.
Priority 3 · Harden
Framing restricted
Observed: The homepage did not send frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, so other sites may frame it.
What to do: Send Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self' (or a list of trusted origins). X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN covers older browsers.
On Next.js: Add it in next.config.js headers().
34% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.
Priority 4 · Enable
Structured data present
Observed: The homepage had no JSON-LD structured data.
What to do: Add JSON-LD for your organization and main content types, then test it with Google's Rich Results Test.
50% of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers do this.
What nfl.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Sports Broadcast & Fantasy Games peers use.
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.27% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.32% of peers
- Modern image formats in useWebP or AVIF images detected.35% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.nfl.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2027-01-02
- CDN or edge
- Fastly
- Platform or framework
- Next.js
- DNS operators
- Vercara UltraDNS
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 3,826 KB, br
- Images on homepage
- 628 (svg 55, png 3)
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
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 12
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Reachable over IPv6
- Structured data present
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 19
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: nfl.com. This profile covers configuration only.