chess.com

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chess.com is ranked #875 in the Tranco list of the world's most popular websites (list of Oct 13, 2026), down 3 places in four weeks. The domain was registered on Aug 11, 1994, 32 years, 2 months ago, through GoDaddy.com, LLC, and is paid up until Jul 2, 2027. Its homepage uses Cloudflare Turnstile. It is served through Cloudflare.

Global rank

#875

▼ 4 this week

Domain age

32 years

since Aug 11, 1994

Technologies

detected on the homepage

SEO score

93/100

homepage checks

Popularity rank

#875 of the top 1 million sites in the Tranco research ranking, which averages several traffic and DNS sources over 30 days. Best rank in the period shown: #854.

Weekly Tranco rank (lower is more popular).

See where chess.com sits in the top 10,000

Domain registration

Registered: Aug 11, 1994 (32 years, 2 months ago)
Expires: Jul 2, 2027
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Name servers: dan.ns.cloudflare.com, sue.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC: Not signed

From the registry's public RDAP record, checked Oct 1, 2026.

Technology stack

Security

Cloudflare Turnstile

CDN

Cloudflare

Detected from the homepage HTML and response headers on Oct 14, 2026. Tools loaded only after scripts run (or after consent banners) may be missing.

Homepage SEO check

Checked from the HTML our scanner received on Oct 14, 2026. Content added later by JavaScript isn't counted.

93/100

https://www.chess.com/

Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games

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!

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Content

✓Title42 characters
✓Meta description151 characters
✓H1 headingExactly one H1
✓Subheadings8 H2 headings
!Image alt text7 of 41 images have no alt text
!Content lengthAbout 215 words in the served HTML

Indexing

✓IndexableNo noindex directive
✓Canonical URLhttps://www.chess.com/
✓robots.txtFound
✓XML sitemapFound
✓Language attributeen-US
ihreflang55 language alternates
✓Structured dataOrganization

Social sharing

✓Open GraphTitle, description and image set
✓Twitter / X cardsummary_large_image

Technical

✓HTTPSServed over HTTPS
✓Mobile viewportFound
✓FaviconFound
✓Character encodingutf-8

Security headers

✓Strict-Transport-SecuritySet
✓Content-Security-PolicySet
✓Clickjacking protectionSet
✓X-Content-Type-OptionsSet
!Referrer-PolicyNot set

Server response

Final URL: https://www.chess.com/
HTTP status: 200
Server: cloudflare
Response time: 227 ms (first byte 225 ms, from our scanner in a US data centre)
HTML size: 118 KB
Compression: br

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Questions about chess.com

How popular is chess.com?

chess.com is #875 worldwide in the Tranco list published Oct 13, 2026.

How old is chess.com?

chess.com was registered on Aug 11, 1994, which makes the domain 32 years, 2 months old.

What is chess.com built with?

We detected Cloudflare Turnstile and Cloudflare on its homepage.

Who is the registrar of chess.com?

GoDaddy.com, LLC, according to the registry's RDAP record.