philhealth.gov.ph

Readiness by lane

Green: philhealth.gov.ph. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for philhealth.gov.ph

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   HTTP/2 negotiated

   Observed: The TLS handshake selected HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP/2.

   Why it matters: HTTP/2 sends many files over one connection, which speeds up pages with lots of images, styles and scripts.

   What to do: Enable HTTP/2 on your CDN or server. Most CDNs do this by default.

   55% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Certificate and protocol were observed from one vantage point; CDNs can present different certificates by region.

   Guide: CDN 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 186 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 · 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

What philhealth.gov.ph already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.25% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3

Certificate

GlobalSign, 199-day validity, expiring 2027-02-27

DNS operators

2 self-run or other nameserver domains

HSTS

max-age 186 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

14 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

42 (png 31, svg 8, 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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