Is chess.com secure (HTTPS)?

Yes. chess.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Aug 16, 2026.

chess.com is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.

What is chess.com's SEO score?

chess.com scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).

What is chess.com's overall website score?

chess.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 96/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.

What company operates chess.com?

chess.com is operated by Chess.

chess.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.

chess.com

Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games

Last scanned Jul 14, 2026, 1:29 PM

Overall score

Excellent

Summary

This website uses PHP hosted on Cloudflare behind Cloudflare CDN. SEO is excellent (100/100) and accessibility is excellent (100/100). Security scores excellent (100/100) and performance good (85/100).

100

SEO

0 issue(s) found

Performance

445 ms

100

Security

HTTPS & header checks

100

Accessibility

0 issue(s) found

Organization

Company details published in this site's own structured data.

Chess

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Meta tags

Title: Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
Description: Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
Canonical: https://www.chess.com/
Language: en-US
Charset: utf-8
Viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1
Robots meta: NOYDIR
Manifest: https://www.chess.com/manifest.json

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

PHP

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider: Cloudflare
CDN provider: Cloudflare
IP address: 104.18.137.67
ASN: AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)

DNS records

Type	Value
A	104.18.137.67 104.18.139.67 104.18.138.67 104.18.141.67 104.18.140.67
AAAA	2606:4700::6812:8c43 2606:4700::6812:8b43 2606:4700::6812:8943 2606:4700::6812:8d43 2606:4700::6812:8a43
MX	—
TXT	—
NS	—
CAA	—
CNAME	—
IPv6 support	Yes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version: TLS 1.3
Issuer: Google Trust Services
Subject: chess.com
Valid from: May 18, 2026
Valid to: Aug 16, 2026
Days until expiry: 33
SAN domains: chess.com, *.chess.com

Security headers

Strict-Transport-SecurityEnabled
Content-Security-PolicyEnabled
X-Frame-OptionsEnabled
X-Content-Type-OptionsEnabled
Referrer-PolicyMissing
Permissions-PolicyMissing

Compression: gzip · 8 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 1 · H2 7 · H3 1

Links

27 internal · 8 external · 2 broken

Images

42 total · 8 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

25 scripts · 25 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

1.3 MB · 0 B

Page size

116 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt: Found
Disallow rules: 38
sitemap.xml: Found
URLs in sitemap: -1

SEO issues

No SEO issues detected.

Careers

View careers page

This company has an active careers page, but individual openings weren't reliably parsed from it — visit the page above for current listings.

Scan details

Requested URL: https://chess.com
Final URL: https://www.chess.com/
HTTP status: 200
HTTP version: HTTP/2
Response time: 443 ms
HTML size: 116 KB
Redirect chain: https://chess.com → https://www.chess.com/

Frequently asked questions

What technology does chess.com use?: chess.com is built with PHP.
Is chess.com secure (HTTPS)?: Yes. chess.com uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Aug 16, 2026.
Who hosts chess.com?: chess.com is hosted on Cloudflare, behind Cloudflare CDN.
What is chess.com's SEO score?: chess.com scored 100/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (excellent).
What is chess.com's overall website score?: chess.com has an overall SiteGraph score of 96/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
What company operates chess.com?: chess.com is operated by Chess.
Is chess.com hiring?: chess.com has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.