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Prototype for federal website standards
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www standardization #137

Open michelle-rago opened 1 month ago

michelle-rago commented 1 month ago

(From original Airtable list of potential standards) ~90 websites not doing this correctly - possibility CISA will take on management of DNS for agency websites

michelle-rago commented 1 month ago

The #site-scanning team, for our own work, recently did a big analysis of all federal websites along these lines and the report (and raw data) is here - https://github.com/GSA/site-scanning-documentation/blob/main/about/project-management/proposals/dropping-www.md

TL;DR - About 28% (!) of apex domains (e.g. agency.gov) don't return the same result if you use a www. (www.agency.gov) or leave it out (agency.gov). 12% of subdomains require www. before them (e.g. www.x.agency.gov will resolve but x.agency.gov won't).