Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
justice.gov
justice.gov's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 954 Government Services sites.
- Readiness index
- 81/100
- Ahead of
- 96%
- Practices observed
- 24/31
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Government Services median 53
of measured Government Services sites
0 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: justice.gov. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.
Enable
92/100
Peers 59
Harden
83/100
Peers 59
Accelerate
70/100
Peers 41
Recover
0/100
Peers 25
Priority fixes for justice.gov
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Accelerate
Static files cached for 30 days or more
Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 14 days, short of the 30-day benchmark.
Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.
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.
30% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 48 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 Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.
15% of Government Services peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
Priority 3 · Harden
CAA records limit who can issue certificates
Observed: No CAA record was found for justice.gov, so any public certificate authority may issue for it.
What to do: Publish CAA records naming every CA you actually use, including the CAs your CDN uses for managed certificates. Add an iodef contact if you want reports.
On Cloudflare: Cloudflare documents which CAs its managed certificates need; include them in your CAA records.
17% of Government Services peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
Observed: The certificate from DigiCert Inc had a 198-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.
34% of Government Services peers do this.
What justice.gov already does well
Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.
- HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.11% of peers
- DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.19% of peers
- Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.27% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.justice.gov/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-11-08
- CDN or edge
- Akamai, Acquia
- Platform or framework
- Drupal
- DNS operators
- Cloudflare
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=reject
- Homepage HTML
- 100 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 48 (svg 24, png 11, 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.
All 31 checks
Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works
Not observed 7
Observed 24
- 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
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Reachable over IPv6
- Canonical URL declared
- Meta description written
- Mobile viewport configured
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: justice.gov. This profile covers configuration only.