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Best Practices

Standards & guidelines across all 7 layers

Health Check Best Practices

Web Health Best Practices Library

38 practices across 7 layers, 10 critical

Curated from OWASP, W3C WCAG 2.2, Google SEO guidelines, and industry standards. The orchestrating agent uses these criteria to score your website.

Criteria sourced from OWASP, W3C, Google, Schema.org|Daily scan updates planned
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Use HTTPS everywhere

CriticalOWASP, Google Security

All pages must be served over HTTPS with a valid SSL/TLS certificate. HTTP should 301 redirect to HTTPS. HSTS header should be set with max-age of at least 1 year.

Server Response Time < 200ms

HighGoogle Core Web Vitals

Time to First Byte (TTFB) should be under 200ms. Use CDN, server caching, and optimized database queries. Google uses TTFB as a ranking signal.

Enable compression (gzip/brotli)

HighHTTP/2 Best Practices

Enable server-side compression for text-based resources. Brotli provides 15-20% better compression than gzip. Configure Content-Encoding headers.

Set proper cache headers

MediumRFC 7234

Use Cache-Control headers with appropriate max-age for static assets (1 year for versioned files). Use ETag for dynamic content. Implement cache busting for deployments.

Declare character encoding

MediumW3C HTML Standard

Add <meta charset="UTF-8"> as the first element in <head>. This prevents rendering delays and character display issues.

Daily Scanning (Coming Soon)

The orchestrating agent will automatically scan updated standards from OWASP, W3C, Google Search Central, and Schema.org on a daily basis. New criteria will be added to the library and reflected in health check scoring automatically. This ensures your scans always reflect the latest best practices without manual updates.