Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
hko.gov.hk
hko.gov.hk's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 190 Weather Forecast sites.
- Readiness index
- 75/100
- Ahead of
- 85%
- Practices observed
- 18/28
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Weather Forecast median 63
of measured Weather Forecast sites
3 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: hko.gov.hk. Thin bar: Weather Forecast peer median.
Enable
59/100
Peers 76
Harden
83/100
Peers 54
Accelerate
83/100
Peers 59
Recover
0/100
Peers 14
Priority fixes for hko.gov.hk
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Enable
Meta description written
Observed: The homepage had no meta description.
Why it matters: Search engines often use it for the snippet under your link, so a clear description can improve click-through.
What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.
92% of Weather Forecast peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent
Priority 2 · 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 Weather Forecast peers do this.
Priority 3 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from Hongkong Post had a 199-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.
What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.
59% of Weather Forecast peers do this.
Priority 4 · Enable
Social preview image set
Observed: The homepage had no og:image, so shared links may show without a preview image.
What to do: Add Open Graph tags, including og:image with a 1200 x 630 image.
58% of Weather Forecast peers do this.
What hko.gov.hk already does well
Practices fewer than half of Weather Forecast peers use.
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.12% of peers
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.22% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.27% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.hko.gov.hk/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Hongkong Post, 199-day validity, expiring 2026-12-17
- DNS operators
- 1 self-run or other nameserver domain
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 2 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 0
Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.
All 31 checks
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 10
Observed 18
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- DNSSEC signed
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Mobile viewport configured
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 3
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: hko.gov.hk. This profile covers configuration only.