mom.gov.sg

Readiness by lane

Green: mom.gov.sg. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for mom.gov.sg

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

1. Priority 1 · 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.

   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.

   30% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 4 external scripts 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.

   39% of Government Services peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 19 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.

   15% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

4. Priority 4 · 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.

   41% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Canonical Tags: A Decision Guide for Duplicate URLs

What mom.gov.sg already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• Structured data presentJSON-LD structured data found.15% of peers
• DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.19% of peers
• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.25% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.mom.gov.sg/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

GlobalSign, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-11-30

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront, Imperva

Platform or framework

Sitecore

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS, plus 2 self-run or other nameserver domains

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

90 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

19 (png 12, jpg 3)

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

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