Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
git-scm.com
git-scm.com's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 231 Programming & Software sites.
- Readiness index
- 40/100
- Ahead of
- 3%
- Practices observed
- 10/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Programming & Software median 68
of measured Programming & Software sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: git-scm.com. Thin bar: Programming & Software peer median.
Enable
38/100
Peers 81
Harden
43/100
Peers 59
Accelerate
38/100
Peers 65
Recover
0/100
Peers 7
Priority fixes for git-scm.com
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
robots.txt published
Observed: No robots.txt file was returned at the site root.
Why it matters: robots.txt is where crawlers look first for crawl rules and sitemap locations. Without it, they assume everything is open.
What to do: Publish /robots.txt with any crawl rules you need and a Sitemap: line pointing to your XML sitemap.
91% of Programming & Software peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.
Guide: Robots.txt Guide: Control Crawling Without Hiding Mistakes
Priority 2 · 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.
On Cloudflare: Enable HSTS under SSL/TLS > Edge Certificates > HTTP Strict Transport Security and raise max-age gradually.
40% of Programming & Software peers do this.
Priority 3 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 4 hours, 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.
On Cloudflare: Use Cache Rules to set edge and browser TTLs for static file paths.
50% of Programming & Software peers do this.
Priority 4 · 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.
69% of Programming & Software peers do this.
Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://git-scm.com/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-18
- CDN or edge
- Cloudflare, Fastly
- Platform or framework
- Hugo
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- Homepage HTML
- 6 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 10 (svg 7, png 3)
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
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 21
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- DNSSEC signed
- security.txt published
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 10
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- Reachable over IPv6
- Mobile viewport configured
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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