drishtiias.com

Readiness by lane

Green: drishtiias.com. Thin bar: Education & Online Learning peer median.

Priority fixes for drishtiias.com

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.

   65% of Education & Online Learning 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 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: The DMARC policy for drishtiias.com was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.

   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.

   36% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 31 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.

   32% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

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

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 2 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.

   42% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

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

What drishtiias.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Education & Online Learning peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, amazontrust.com, comodoca.com and others.13% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 730-day max-age covering subdomains.34% of peers
• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.drishtiias.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-11-27

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

DNS operators

Cloudflare

HSTS

max-age 730 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=none

Homepage HTML

180 KB, br

Images on homepage

31 (png 15, jpg 11, svg 3, gif 1)

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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