google.com

Readiness by lane

Green: google.com. Thin bar: Search Engines peer median.

Priority fixes for google.com

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.google.com/ 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.

   87% of Search Engines 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.

   83% of Search Engines peers do this.

   Guide: Responsive Web Design Checklist for Real Devices

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   30% of Search Engines peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

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.

   61% of Search Engines peers do this.

   Guide: Canonical Tags: A Decision Guide for Duplicate URLs

What google.com already does well

Practices fewer than half of Search Engines peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.11% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.37% of peers
• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to pki.goog.37% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.google.com/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 83-day validity, expiring 2026-12-21

CDN or edge

Google edge

DNS operators

Google Cloud DNS

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

88 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

1 (png 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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Compare with other Search Engines sites

• 1881.no60
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• rambler.ru64
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• yandex.com63

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