indiapost.gov.in

Readiness by lane

Green: indiapost.gov.in. Thin bar: Postage & Courier Services peer median.

Priority fixes for indiapost.gov.in

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.

   69% of Postage & Courier Services 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 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 days, 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.

   44% of Postage & Courier Services peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 103 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 Next.js: The next/image component serves optimized formats automatically.

   31% of Postage & Courier Services 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 1 external script 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.

   On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.

   39% of Postage & Courier Services peers do this.

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

What indiapost.gov.in already does well

Practices fewer than half of Postage & Courier Services peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to emsign.com.16% of peers
• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.31% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.indiapost.gov.in/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

eMudhra Technologies Limited, 89-day validity, expiring 2027-01-13

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

403 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

103 (svg 52, png 33, jpg 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.

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