serviceonline.gov.in

Readiness by lane

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

Priority fixes for serviceonline.gov.in

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HTTP requests move to HTTPS

   Observed: A request to http://serviceonline.gov.in/ was not redirected to HTTPS.

   Why it matters: Visitors who type the address or follow an old link start on unencrypted HTTP. A redirect moves them to the encrypted site before any cookies or form data are sent.

   What to do: Add a permanent (301 or 308) redirect from every http:// URL to the same https:// URL at your CDN, load balancer or web server.

   88% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Measured for the homepage only, from one location, at the time of the check.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   HTML compressed

   Observed: The homepage HTML (3080 KB) was delivered without gzip, Brotli or zstd compression.

   What to do: Enable Brotli or gzip for text responses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SVG) at the CDN or origin.

   74% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: How to Set a Website Performance Budget That Teams Can Keep

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 7 days, 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 serviceonline.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, sectigo.com, zerossl.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://serviceonline.gov.in/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

DNS operators

4 self-run or other nameserver domains

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

3,080 KB, uncompressed

Images on homepage

19 (png 14, svg 3)

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

All 31 checks

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