worldcubeassociation.org

Readiness by lane

Green: worldcubeassociation.org. Thin bar: Puzzles & Video Games peer median.

Priority fixes for worldcubeassociation.org

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (57 KB) was delivered without gzip, Brotli or zstd compression.

   Why it matters: Compression usually shrinks HTML several times over, so the first bytes of the page arrive sooner on slow connections.

   What to do: Enable Brotli or gzip for text responses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SVG) at the CDN or origin.

   93% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: How to Set a Website Performance Budget That Teams Can Keep

2. Priority 2 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

   Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.

   What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.

   60% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   23% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 22 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.

   52% of Puzzles & Video Games peers do this.

   Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page

What worldcubeassociation.org already does well

Practices fewer than half of Puzzles & Video Games peers use.

• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.19% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.21% of peers
• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniffnosniff header present.28% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-03-14

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

57 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

3

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

Stack and providers

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