swayam.gov.in

Readiness by lane

Green: swayam.gov.in. Thin bar: Education & Online Learning peer median.

Priority fixes for swayam.gov.in

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

   Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.

   Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.

   What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.

   65% of Education & Online Learning peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

2. Priority 2 · 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.

   84% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

   Guide: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

3. Priority 3 · Harden

   DMARC policy enforces quarantine or reject

   Observed: No DMARC record was found at _dmarc.swayam.gov.in.

   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.

   36% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

   Guide: A Practical Website Health Check for Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 53 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.

   32% of Education & Online Learning peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

What swayam.gov.in already does well

Practices fewer than half of Education & Online Learning peers use.

• Content Security Policy presentContent-Security-Policy present.25% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.25% of peers
• HSTS kept for at least a yearHSTS with a 365-day max-age covering subdomains.34% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://swayam.gov.in/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Google Trust Services, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-20

CDN or edge

Google edge

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains

Homepage HTML

50 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

53 (png 32, svg 13, jpg 8)

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

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