Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
sketchfab.com
sketchfab.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 356 Design & Content Creation sites.
- Readiness index
- 66/100
- Ahead of
- 37%
- Practices observed
- 18/31
- Popularity band
- Top 5K
Design & Content Creation median 69
of measured Design & Content Creation sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: sketchfab.com. Thin bar: Design & Content Creation peer median.
Enable
82/100
Peers 86
Harden
60/100
Peers 57
Accelerate
63/100
Peers 71
Recover
0/100
Peers 3
Priority fixes for sketchfab.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.
84% of Design & Content Creation 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
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 19 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.
56% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 3 · Harden
HSTS kept for at least a year
Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 7 days, below the one-year benchmark.
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 Amazon CloudFront: Attach a response headers policy with Strict-Transport-Security to each distribution.
37% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.
Priority 4 · 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.
49% of Design & Content Creation peers do this.
Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page
What sketchfab.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of Design & Content Creation peers use.
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, digicert.com, letsencrypt.org.17% of peers
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.41% of peers
- Framing restrictedFraming controls present.48% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://sketchfab.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 394-day validity, expiring 2027-01-15
- CDN or edge
- Amazon CloudFront
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 7 days
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 180 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 19 (svg 13, png 6)
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 13
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Modern image formats in use
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 18
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Framing restricted
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- robots.txt published
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Structured data present
- 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: sketchfab.com. This profile covers configuration only.