ossc.gov.in

Readiness by lane

Green: ossc.gov.in. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for ossc.gov.in

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 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 0 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   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

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 ossc.gov.in already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to letsencrypt.org.17% of peers
• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.25% of peers
• Static files cached for 30 days or moreLong-lived caching on static files.30% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.ossc.gov.in/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 2 redirects

TLS

TLSv1.2, HTTP/2

Certificate

Let's Encrypt, 89-day validity, expiring 2026-12-18

DNS operators

4 self-run or other nameserver domains

HSTS

max-age 0 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

47 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

8 (jpg 4, png 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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