csc.gov.ph

Readiness by lane

Green: csc.gov.ph. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for csc.gov.ph

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

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

   Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.

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

   42% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

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

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 13 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.

   39% of Government Services peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Enable

   Meta description written

   Observed: The homepage had no meta description.

   What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.

   58% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 30 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.

   On Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.

   15% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

What csc.gov.ph already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.27% of peers
• Certificate lifetime of 100 days or lessShort-lived 89-day certificate from Let's Encrypt, already inside the 2027 limit.34% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://csc.gov.ph/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-30

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

Platform or framework

Joomla

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 365 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

59 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

30 (png 23, jpg 7)

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

Stack and providers

Seen in the homepage response, certificate and DNS. Provider pages compare how their customers configure the same checks.

All 31 checks

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