mol.gov.om

Readiness by lane

Green: mol.gov.om. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for mol.gov.om

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 · 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.

   51% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Framing restricted

   Observed: The homepage did not send frame-ancestors or X-Frame-Options, so other sites may frame it.

   What to do: Send Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self' (or a list of trusted origins). X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN covers older browsers.

   68% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

What mol.gov.om 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
• Social preview image setog:image present.36% of peers
• XML sitemap discoverableSitemap found.42% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.mol.gov.om/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-04-14

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

364 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

99 (jpg 55, svg 30, png 6)

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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