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lichess.org • Free Online Chess

Last scanned Jul 18, 2026, 8:49 PM

81

Overall score

Great

Top issues to fix

8 issues found · 2 high priority

  • Missing Content-Security-Policy header

    Security

    Add a CSP to control which sources can run scripts — the strongest single defense against XSS.

  • No H1 heading found

    SEO

    Add exactly one H1 describing the page's main topic — it anchors the document outline for search engines and screen readers.

  • Missing X-Content-Type-Options header

    Security

    Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to stop MIME-sniffing attacks.

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters

    SEO

    Trim the meta description to under 160 characters to avoid truncation in search results.

  • Missing canonical link

    SEO

    Add <link rel="canonical"> so search engines know which URL variant to index.

  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found

    SEO

    Add JSON-LD (Organization, Article, Product…) to become eligible for rich results.

+2 more issues — details in the sections below.

Summary

Free online chess server. This website uses Nginx hosted on OVH - OVH SAS, FR. SEO is fair (65/100) and accessibility is good (75/100). Security scores good (85/100) and performance excellent (100/100). Top issue: Meta description longer than 160 characters.

65

SEO

5 issue(s) found

100

Performance

117 ms

85

Security

HTTPS & header checks

75

Accessibility

2 issue(s) found

Not enough scan history yet to show a trend — check back after this site has been re-scanned a few more times.

Organization

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

Contact

Email, phone, and address published on this site's own pages.

Meta tags

Title
lichess.org • Free Online Chess
Description
Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents.
Canonical
Language
en-US
Charset
utf-8
Viewport
width=device-width,initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1,viewport-fit=cover
Robots meta
Manifest
https://lichess.org/manifest.json

OpenGraph & Twitter Card

OpenGraph

og:title
The best free, adless Chess server
og:description
Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents.
og:type
website
og:url
https://lichess.org

Twitter Card

twitter:card
twitter:title
twitter:description

Technologies

Detected frameworks, languages, and tools.

Hosting & CDN

Hosting provider
OVH - OVH SAS, FR
CDN provider
IP address
37.187.205.99
ASN
AS16276 (OVH - OVH SAS, FR)

DNS records

TypeValue
A
  • 37.187.205.99
AAAA
  • 2001:41d0:307:b200::
MX
  • alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
  • aspmx.l.google.com
  • alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
  • alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
  • alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
TXT
  • google-site-verification=nTK9KGLK0Uk6ScCHMRZKQsh7UEFGc3f6NY1nQ2PuHHA
  • google-site-verification=fZ08Imok7kcLaGcJg7BKQExO6vXGgSgsJUsW6JalUCo
  • google-site-verification=lcne9sTo24rMZhlrGEXB3TtkTnnpZqH_hNo20DezQEc
  • google-site-verification=iHavQOc6X8aYmnHhfovb-1hseQ3bxT79YJiwhDzhoTo
  • v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.tem.scaleway.com -all
NS
  • serenity.ns.cloudflare.com
  • dimitris.ns.cloudflare.com
CAA
  • 0 issue "ssl.com"
  • 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
  • 0 issuewild "pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
  • 0 issuewild "ssl.com"
  • 0 issue "digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
  • 0 issuewild "digicert.com; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
  • 0 issuewild "letsencrypt.org"
  • 0 issuewild "comodoca.com"
  • 0 issue "comodoca.com"
  • 0 issue "pki.goog; cansignhttpexchanges=yes"
CNAME
IPv6 supportYes

TLS / SSL certificate

Version
TLS 1.3
Issuer
Let's Encrypt
Subject
mta-sts.lichess.org
Valid from
Jul 4, 2026
Valid to
Oct 2, 2026
Days until expiry
75
SAN domains
af.lichess.org, ar.lichess.org, as.lichess.org, az.lichess.org, be.lichess.org, bg.lichess.org, bn.lichess.org, bs.lichess.org, ca.lichess.org, cs.lichess.org, cv.lichess.org, cy.lichess.org, da.lichess.org, de.lichess.org, el.lichess.org, en.lichess.org, eo.lichess.org, es.lichess.org, et.lichess.org, eu.lichess.org, fa.lichess.org, fi.lichess.org, fo.lichess.org, fp.lichess.org, fr.lichess.org, fy.lichess.org, ga.lichess.org, gd.lichess.org, gl.lichess.org, gu.lichess.org, he.lichess.org, hi.lichess.org, hr.lichess.org, hu.lichess.org, hy.lichess.org, ia.lichess.org, id.lichess.org, io.lichess.org, is.lichess.org, it.lichess.org, ja.lichess.org, jb.lichess.org, jv.lichess.org, ka.lichess.org, kb.lichess.org, kk.lichess.org, kn.lichess.org, ko.lichess.org, ky.lichess.org, la.lichess.org, le.lichess.org, lichess.org, lt.lichess.org, lv.lichess.org, mg.lichess.org, mk.lichess.org, ml.lichess.org, mn.lichess.org, mr.lichess.org, mta-sts.lichess.org, nb.lichess.org, nl.lichess.org, nn.lichess.org, oauth.lichess.org, pi.lichess.org, pl.lichess.org, ps.lichess.org, pt.lichess.org, ro.lichess.org, ru.lichess.org, sa.lichess.org, sk.lichess.org, sl.lichess.org, sq.lichess.org, sr.lichess.org, sv.lichess.org, sw.lichess.org, ta.lichess.org, tc.lichess.org, tg.lichess.org, th.lichess.org, tl.lichess.org, tp.lichess.org, tr.lichess.org, uk.lichess.org, ur.lichess.org, vi.lichess.org, www.lichess.org, yo.lichess.org, zh.lichess.org, zu.lichess.org

Security headers

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

Compression: gzip · 1 cookie(s) observed

Content & assets

Headings

H1 0 · H2 10 · H3 0

Links

85 internal · 8 external · 0 broken

Images

16 total · 6 missing alt

Scripts / Styles

42 scripts · 3 stylesheets

JS / CSS size

582 B · 999 B

Page size

35.3 KB

Robots.txt & Sitemap

robots.txt
Found
Disallow rules
5
sitemap.xml
Not found
URLs in sitemap
0

SEO issues

  • Meta description longer than 160 characters
  • Missing canonical link
  • No H1 heading found
  • No structured data (JSON-LD) found
  • sitemap.xml not found

Accessibility issues

  • More than 20% of images are missing alt text
  • No H1 heading found

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://lichess.org
Final URL
https://lichess.org
HTTP status
200
HTTP version
HTTP/2
Response time
117 ms
HTML size
35.3 KB
Redirect chain
https://lichess.org

Frequently asked questions

What technology does lichess.org use?
lichess.org is built with Nginx.
Is lichess.org secure (HTTPS)?
Yes. lichess.org uses TLS 1.3 with a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Oct 2, 2026.
Who hosts lichess.org?
lichess.org is hosted on OVH - OVH SAS, FR.
What is lichess.org's SEO score?
lichess.org scored 65/100 for SEO in the latest analysis (fair).
What is lichess.org's overall website score?
lichess.org has an overall SiteGraph score of 81/100, combining SEO, performance, security, and accessibility.
Is lichess.org hiring?
lichess.org has a careers page; check it directly for current openings.