Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
ncert.nic.in
ncert.nic.in's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 1,516 Education & Online Learning sites.
- Readiness index
- 33/100
- Ahead of
- 3%
- Practices observed
- 9/29
- Popularity band
- Top 5K
Education & Online Learning median 61
of measured Education & Online Learning sites
2 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: ncert.nic.in. Thin bar: Education & Online Learning peer median.
Enable
26/100
Peers 75
Harden
58/100
Peers 54
Accelerate
0/100
Peers 57
Recover
n/a/100
Peers 13
Priority fixes for ncert.nic.in
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · Harden
Certificate has more than 14 days left
Observed: The certificate from GoDaddy.com, Inc. was due to expire on 2026-10-28 (4 days after the check).
Why it matters: An expired certificate makes browsers show a full-page warning. Renewing well ahead of expiry leaves time to fix a failed renewal.
What to do: Automate renewal with ACME (for example Let's Encrypt or your CDN's managed certificates) and add a renewal review to your release calendar so any certificate inside 21 days of expiry gets attention.
99% of Education & Online Learning peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.
Priority 2 · Accelerate
HTML compressed
Observed: The homepage HTML (370 KB) was delivered without gzip, Brotli or zstd compression.
What to do: Enable Brotli or gzip for text responses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SVG) at the CDN or origin.
90% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
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Priority 3 · 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.
80% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
Priority 4 · Harden
TLS 1.3 negotiated
Observed: The TLS connection negotiated TLSv1.2.
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.
86% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.
What ncert.nic.in already does well
Practices fewer than half of Education & Online Learning peers use.
- Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.25% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.27% of peers
- HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.34% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://ncert.nic.in/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.2
- Certificate
- GoDaddy, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-10-28
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload
- DMARC policy
- p=quarantine
- Homepage HTML
- 370 KB, uncompressed
- Images on homepage
- 89 (gif 28, png 27, jpg 24)
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 20
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- security.txt published
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTTP/3 advertised
- HTML compressed
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- 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
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Page language declared
Observed 9
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Content Security Policy present
- Referrer-Policy set
- Mobile viewport configured
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 2
- DNSSEC signed
- Nameservers spread across providers
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