pgportal.gov.in

Readiness by lane

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

Priority fixes for pgportal.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 · 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

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, short of the 30-day benchmark.

   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.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

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 pgportal.gov.in already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com.17% of peers
• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.25% of peers
• Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://pgportal.gov.in/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.2, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-12-26

DNS operators

4 self-run or other nameserver domains

HSTS

max-age 365 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

27 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

39 (png 25, jpg 14)

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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