Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
rockstargames.com
rockstargames.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 485 Gaming Platforms & Consoles sites.
- Readiness index
- 67/100
- Ahead of
- 64%
- Practices observed
- 16/27
- Popularity band
- Top 10K
Gaming Platforms & Consoles median 62
of measured Gaming Platforms & Consoles sites
4 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: rockstargames.com. Thin bar: Gaming Platforms & Consoles peer median.
Enable
74/100
Peers 76
Harden
62/100
Peers 53
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 63
Recover
100/100
Peers 6
Priority fixes for rockstargames.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
XML sitemap discoverable
Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.
Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.
What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.
61% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
Priority 2 · 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.
49% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
Priority 3 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 198-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.
76% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.
Priority 4 · 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.
43% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.
What rockstargames.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.3.7% of peers
- Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.5.8% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.26% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.rockstargames.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-01-08
- CDN or edge
- Akamai
- DNS operators
- NS1, plus 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 3 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 0
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 11
Observed 16
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- robots.txt published
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
- Nameservers spread across providers
Not measured 4
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: rockstargames.com. This profile covers configuration only.