Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
waze.com
waze.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 73 GPS Navigation & Maps sites.
- Readiness index
- 89/100
- Ahead of
- 99%
- Practices observed
- 27/30
- Popularity band
- Top 10K
GPS Navigation & Maps median 68
of measured GPS Navigation & Maps sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: waze.com. Thin bar: GPS Navigation & Maps peer median.
Enable
100/100
Peers 81
Harden
80/100
Peers 57
Accelerate
100/100
Peers 63
Recover
0/100
Peers 14
Priority fixes for waze.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
HTTP requests move to HTTPS
Observed: A request to http://www.waze.com/ was not redirected to HTTPS.
Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.
What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.
92% of GPS Navigation & Maps peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.
Priority 2 · Harden
DNSSEC signed
Observed: No DS record was found for waze.com at its parent zone, so its DNS answers are not DNSSEC-signed.
What to do: Enable DNSSEC at your DNS provider, then add the DS record at your registrar. Plan provider moves carefully: a stale DS record can make the domain fail to resolve.
11% of GPS Navigation & Maps peers do this.
Guide: Website Uptime Readiness: Prepare Before Traffic Arrives
Priority 3 · Recover
Nameservers spread across providers
Observed: All nameservers for waze.com belong to Google Cloud DNS.
What to do: Treat this as an advanced step. Add a secondary DNS provider through zone transfers or a multi-provider setup, then test changes carefully, since both providers must stay in sync.
14% of GPS Navigation & Maps peers do this.
Guide: Website Uptime Readiness: Prepare Before Traffic Arrives
What waze.com already does well
Practices fewer than half of GPS Navigation & Maps peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.8.5% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to pki.goog.18% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.21% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.waze.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-11-30
- CDN or edge
- Google edge
- DNS operators
- Google Cloud DNS
- HSTS
- max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 340 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 31 (webp 1, jpg 1)
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
Observed 27
- 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
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- 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
Not measured 1
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: waze.com. This profile covers configuration only.