start.gg

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Green: start.gg. Thin bar: Gaming Platforms & Consoles peer median.

Priority fixes for start.gg

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 days, short of the 30-day benchmark.

   Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.

   What to do: Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.

   On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.

   46% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: Browser Caching 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

   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.

   On Cloudflare: Enable HTTP/3 (with QUIC) under Speed > Optimization > Protocol Optimization.

   42% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.

   Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Content Security Policy present

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.

   What to do: Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.

   On Next.js: Next.js documents nonce-based CSP with middleware.

   22% of Gaming Platforms & Consoles peers do this.

   Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know

What start.gg already does well

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

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to comodoca.com, digicert.com, letsencrypt.org and others.11% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.26% of peers
• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.38% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.start.gg/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2027-01-16

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

Cloudflare

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

97 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

1 (png 1)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

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