ghris.go.ke

Readiness by lane

Green: ghris.go.ke. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for ghris.go.ke

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HTTP requests move to HTTPS

   Observed: A request to http://www.ghris.go.ke/ was not redirected to HTTPS.

   Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.

   What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.

   88% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Enable

   Mobile viewport configured

   Observed: The homepage had no viewport meta tag, so phones may render it zoomed out.

   What to do: Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> and check the layout on small screens.

   92% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Responsive Web Design Checklist for Real Devices

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (9 KB) was delivered without gzip, Brotli or zstd compression.

   What to do: Enable Brotli or gzip for text responses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SVG) at the CDN or origin.

   74% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: How to Set a Website Performance Budget That Teams Can Keep

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.

   What to do: 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.

   51% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What we saw

Homepage checked

http://www.ghris.go.ke/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

9 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

3 (jpg 3)

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

All 31 checks

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