ird.gov.lk

Readiness by lane

Green: ird.gov.lk. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for ird.gov.lk

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   TLS 1.3 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.

   Why it matters: TLS 1.3 removes legacy cipher suites and completes the handshake in fewer round trips, so it is both safer and faster for new connections.

   What to do: Enable TLS 1.3 on your CDN or server. Keep TLS 1.2 available for older clients unless you have checked your audience.

   77% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   HTTP/2 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS handshake selected http/1.1 instead of HTTP/2.

   What to do: Enable HTTP/2 on your CDN or server. Most CDNs do this by default.

   55% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: CDN Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Enable

   robots.txt published

   Observed: No robots.txt file was returned at the site root.

   What to do: Publish /robots.txt with any crawl rules you need and a Sitemap: line pointing to your XML sitemap.

   61% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Robots.txt Guide: Control Crawling Without Hiding Mistakes

4. 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.

   42% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

What ird.gov.lk already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• Static files cached for 30 days or moreLong-lived caching on static files.30% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.39% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.ird.gov.lk/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 1 redirect

TLS

TLSv1.2, http/1.1

Certificate

SSL2BUY EMEA LLC, 396-day validity, expiring 2027-02-13

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

4 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

7 (png 7)

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

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