Website readiness profile · Snapshot 23 October 2026
scotlandspeople.gov.uk
scotlandspeople.gov.uk's public homepage, certificate and DNS checked against 31 practices and compared with 69 Family & Heritage sites.
- Readiness index
- 64/100
- Ahead of
- 38%
- Practices observed
- 17/30
- Popularity band
- Top 50K
Family & Heritage median 67
of measured Family & Heritage sites
1 of 31 could not be measured
Chrome UX Report top-sites list
Readiness by lane
Green: scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Thin bar: Family & Heritage peer median.
Enable
69/100
Peers 80
Harden
75/100
Peers 61
Accelerate
42/100
Peers 60
Recover
0/100
Peers 7
Priority fixes for scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.
Priority 1 · 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.
Why it matters: Returning visitors and later page views reuse cached files instead of downloading them again.
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.
50% of Family & Heritage peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.
Priority 2 · Harden
DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
Observed: The DMARC policy for scotlandspeople.gov.uk was p=none, which asks receivers to take no action on failing mail.
What to do: Publish DMARC with p=none and a reporting address first, fix any legitimate senders that fail SPF or DKIM alignment, then move to quarantine and finally reject.
46% of Family & Heritage peers do this.
Priority 3 · Enable
Meta description written
Observed: The homepage had no meta description.
What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.
88% of Family & Heritage peers do this.
Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent
Priority 4 · Accelerate
Modern image formats in use
Observed: The homepage had 4 images and none used WebP or AVIF.
What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.
25% of Family & Heritage peers do this.
Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format
What scotlandspeople.gov.uk already does well
Practices fewer than half of Family & Heritage peers use.
- security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.12% of peers
- CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazonaws.com, sectigo.com.28% of peers
- Referrer-Policy setReferrer-Policy present.33% of peers
What we saw
- Homepage checked
- https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
- Homepage response
- HTTP 200
- TLS
- TLSv1.3, HTTP/2
- Certificate
- Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-02-06
- CDN or edge
- Amazon CloudFront
- Platform or framework
- Drupal
- DNS operators
- Amazon Route 53
- HSTS
- max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains
- DMARC policy
- p=none
- Homepage HTML
- 73 KB, gzip
- Images on homepage
- 4 (jpg 3, svg 2, png 1)
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 13
- Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less
- DNSSEC signed
- DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject
- Content Security Policy present
- HTTP/3 advertised
- Static files cached for 30 days or more
- Modern image formats in use
- No render-blocking scripts in <head>
- Reachable over IPv6
- Meta description written
- Structured data present
- Social preview image set
- Nameservers spread across providers
Observed 17
- HTTP requests move to HTTPS
- HSTS kept for at least a year
- TLS 1.3 negotiated
- Certificate has more than 14 days left
- CAA records limit who can issue certificates
- security.txt published
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
- Framing restricted
- Referrer-Policy set
- HTTP/2 negotiated
- HTML compressed
- robots.txt published
- XML sitemap discoverable
- Canonical URL declared
- Mobile viewport configured
- Page language declared
- At most one redirect to the homepage
Not measured 1
- Offscreen images lazy-loaded
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Live status for this site: Status Is Down: scotlandspeople.gov.uk. This profile covers configuration only.