Category benchmark · Snapshot 23 October 2026

Government Services: website readiness

31 configuration checks across 954 Government Services sites from the SID website catalog, with 536 individual profiles for sites in the Chrome UX Report top 50K.

Sites measured: 954
Median readiness index: 53/100
Profiles: 536
Weakest lane: Recover

Readiness by lane

Enable

59/100

All sites 77

Harden

59/100

All sites 56

Accelerate

41/100

All sites 64

Recover

25/100

All sites 10

Biggest gaps for Government Services sites

The checks with the most room to improve, weighted by impact.

Modern image formats in use
15% observed · all sites 40%
Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Static files cached for 30 days or more
30% observed · all sites 51%
Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.
Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners
security.txt published
8% observed · all sites 7.1%
Publish /.well-known/security.txt with at least Contact and Expires fields, as RFC 9116 requires, and review it before it expires.
Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners
HTTP/3 advertised
11% observed · all sites 37%
Turn on HTTP/3 at your CDN. Browsers fall back to HTTP/2 automatically, so the risk is low.
Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners
HSTS kept for at least a year
51% observed · all sites 34%
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.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
17% observed · all sites 13%
Publish CAA records naming every CA you actually use, including the CAs your CDN uses for managed certificates. Add an iodef contact if you want reports.
Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

Where Government Services sites lead

Framing restricted68% observedall sites 51%
HSTS kept for at least a year51% observedall sites 34%
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff64% observedall sites 48%
Nameservers spread across providers25% observedall sites 10%

Stack mix

CDN and edge

Platform or framework

DNS operator

Certificate authority

Let's Encrypt21%
DigiCert21%
Sectigo13%
GlobalSign9.4%
Google Trust Services8.6%
Amazon6.6%
GoDaddy2%
eMudhra Technologies Limited1.5%

Readiness leaders

Government Services sites in the top 50K with the highest share of observed practices (at least 26 of 31 checks measured). This lists only what we observed on 23 October 2026; owners can request a correction.

All 31 checks for Government Services

Check	Lane	Observed	All sites	Measured
HTTP requests move to HTTPS	Harden	88%	91%	805
HSTS kept for at least a year	Harden	51%	34%	942
TLS 1.3 negotiated	Harden	77%	91%	906
Certificate has more than 14 days left	Harden	98%	99%	906
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less	Harden	34%	67%	906
CAA records limit who can issue certificates	Harden	17%	13%	950
DNSSEC signed	Harden	19%	8%	930
security.txt published	Harden	8%	7.1%	910
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject	Harden	52%	39%	949
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff	Harden	64%	48%	942
Framing restricted	Harden	68%	51%	942
Content Security Policy present	Harden	41%	32%	942
Referrer-Policy set	Harden	39%	24%	942
HTTP/2 negotiated	Accelerate	55%	90%	906
HTTP/3 advertised	Accelerate	11%	37%	942
HTML compressed	Accelerate	74%	93%	908
Static files cached for 30 days or more	Accelerate	30%	51%	815
Modern image formats in use	Accelerate	15%	40%	737
Offscreen images lazy-loaded	Accelerate	36%	62%	666
No render-blocking scripts in <head>	Accelerate	39%	48%	942
robots.txt published	Enable	61%	76%	913
XML sitemap discoverable	Enable	42%	70%	915
Reachable over IPv6	Enable	27%	48%	953
Canonical URL declared	Enable	41%	68%	942
Meta description written	Enable	58%	84%	942
Mobile viewport configured	Enable	92%	94%	942
Structured data present	Enable	15%	51%	942
Social preview image set	Enable	36%	57%	942
Page language declared	Enable	87%	90%	942
At most one redirect to the homepage	Enable	94%	98%	942
Nameservers spread across providers	Recover	25%	10%	913

Government Services profiles (1–500 of 536)

Readiness index shown next to each site.

Government Services: website readiness

Readiness by lane

Biggest gaps for Government Services sites

Modern image formats in use

Static files cached for 30 days or more

security.txt published

HTTP/3 advertised

HSTS kept for at least a year

CAA records limit who can issue certificates