rop.gov.om

Readiness by lane

Green: rop.gov.om. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for rop.gov.om

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   Certificate has more than 14 days left

   Observed: The certificate from Entrust Limited was due to expire on 2026-10-30 (7 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.

   98% 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

   Mobile viewport configured

   Observed: The homepage had no viewport meta tag, so phones may render it zoomed out.

   What to do: Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> and check the layout on small screens.

   92% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Responsive Web Design Checklist for Real Devices

3. Priority 3 · 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

4. Priority 4 · 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

What rop.gov.om already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.39% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.rop.gov.om/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Entrust Limited, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-10-30

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 186 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

0 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

0

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

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