cssps.gov.gh

Readiness by lane

Green: cssps.gov.gh. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for cssps.gov.gh

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: No DMARC record was found at _dmarc.cssps.gov.gh.

   Why it matters: An enforcing DMARC policy helps receiving mail systems reject email that falsely claims to come from your domain, a common route for phishing your customers.

   What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.

   52% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Read from public DNS at the time of the check; records may have changed since.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, short of the 30-day benchmark.

   What to do: Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.

   30% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

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

   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.

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

4. Priority 4 · Enable

   Canonical URL declared

   Observed: The homepage did not declare a canonical URL.

   What to do: Add a self-referencing canonical link to every indexable page, using the final https:// URL.

   41% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Canonical Tags: A Decision Guide for Duplicate URLs

What cssps.gov.gh already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.39% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.cssps.gov.gh/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-02-09

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload

Homepage HTML

68 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

2 (png 2)

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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