dc.gov

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After conducting a thorough safety and legitimacy analysis, dc.gov receives a trust score of 68/100, which places it in the "Likely Safe" category. This score is calculated by evaluating multiple factors including SSL certificate validity, domain registration history, email authentication protocols, security header configuration, and blacklist status across major threat intelligence databases. The analysis identified several positive trust signals: a valid HTTPS connection protecting data in transit, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) email authentication preventing email spoofing, DMARC email authentication with a none policy, DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) providing cryptographic email verification, and DNSSEC providing authenticated DNS responses. Areas of concern include: the absence of a Content-Security-Policy header, which leaves the site more vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, missing Referrer-Policy, potentially leaking URL information to third parties, and the domain's WHOIS information is hidden behind a privacy service, making it harder to verify the owner's identity. While these issues don't necessarily indicate malicious intent, they represent areas where the website's security posture could be improved. We checked dc.gov against 8 major blacklist databases including Google Safe Browsing, Phishtank, Urlhaus, Openphish, Dnsfilter, Spamhaus Dbl, Surbl, and Virustotal. The domain passed all 8 checks with a clean status, meaning it has not been flagged for phishing, malware distribution, spam, or other malicious activities by any of the tested threat intelligence providers.

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Our technology detection engine scanned dc.gov and identified 6 distinct technologies across 6 categories. This analysis is performed by examining HTTP response headers, HTML source code patterns, JavaScript library fingerprints, CSS framework signatures, and DNS records. CMS: Drupal — manages the content and page structure for dc.gov. Build Tool: Webpack — bundles and optimizes the JavaScript and CSS assets for dc.gov. Analytics: Google Analytics 4 — tracks visitor behavior and provides traffic insights for dc.gov. Monitoring: New Relic — monitors application performance and errors for dc.gov. CDN: Amazon CloudFront — accelerates content delivery by caching assets at edge locations worldwide for dc.gov. JavaScript Library: jQuery — provides utility functions and DOM manipulation for dc.gov. We also extracted the following tracking identifiers: Google Analytics 4 Measurement ID G-XLLLT5975Z. These IDs can be used to identify other websites operated by the same organization.

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dc.gov delivers its homepage in 896ms (server response time), which is considered average by industry standards. The total page weight is 81 KB, and we detected 185 resource requests loading assets from 12 third-party domains. A high number of third-party domains can significantly impact page load time due to additional DNS lookups and TLS handshakes required for each domain. The website uses Gzip compression for text-based assets, achieving an estimated 60.0% reduction in transfer size. This reduces bandwidth usage and improves page load times, especially for visitors on slower connections. Asset minification status: 0 out of 2 CSS files and 2 out of 27 JavaScript files are minified. Minifying the remaining 27 unminified file(s) could further reduce page weight by 10-30% for those assets. Minification is a best practice that reduces download sizes without affecting functionality. The site is served through a Content Delivery Network (CDN), which caches static assets at edge servers around the world. This means visitors from different geographic regions receive content from the nearest edge server, significantly reducing latency. CDN usage is particularly important for websites with a global audience, as it can reduce page load times by 40-60% for distant visitors. From an environmental perspective, each page view of dc.gov produces approximately 0.04g of CO₂, earning a carbon rating of A. This places the website among the cleanest on the web, demonstrating efficient use of server resources and optimized content delivery. For reference, the average web page produces about 0.5g of CO₂ per page view. The page weight of 81 KB is the primary factor in this calculation. Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is not available for dc.gov. This typically means the site doesn't have enough real-world Chrome user traffic to generate statistically significant field data, or the domain is not included in the CrUX dataset. Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are important Google ranking factors that measure real user experience.

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dc.gov resolves to the IPv4 address 172.64.151.179 and also supports IPv6 (2a06:98c1:3106::ac40:97b3), demonstrating modern network infrastructure readiness. The domain has 2 A record(s) configured. The domain name system is managed by 3 name servers: gold.foundationdns.com, gold.foundationdns.net, and gold.foundationdns.org. Having 3 name servers provides good redundancy — if one fails, the others can continue serving DNS queries. The choice of name servers often indicates the DNS hosting provider or CDN service being used. Email for dc.gov is handled by Microsoft 365 with 1 MX records configured: dc-gov.mail.protection.outlook.com. Multiple MX records provide failover redundancy — if the primary mail server is unavailable, email will be routed to the next available server. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is configured, which specifies which mail servers are authorized to send email on behalf of this domain. This helps prevent email spoofing and improves email deliverability. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is configured with a none policy — a monitoring-only setting that doesn't enforce any action on unauthorized emails. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is configured, adding a cryptographic signature to outgoing emails that receiving servers can verify to confirm the email hasn't been tampered with in transit. DNSSEC is enabled for dc.gov, providing an additional layer of security by cryptographically signing DNS records. This prevents DNS cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks that could redirect visitors to malicious websites. Our subdomain enumeration scan discovered 5 active subdomains for dc.gov: app.dc.gov, apps.dc.gov, docs.dc.gov, m.dc.gov, and www.dc.gov. Active subdomains can reveal the organization's infrastructure, including development environments, API endpoints, and third-party service integrations.

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The homepage of dc.gov contains 548 words of visible text content. This is a moderate amount of content. The page is structured with 7 H2 headings, 8 H3 headings, 0 H4 headings. The page includes 15 images. 1 images (7%) are missing alt text attributes, which is a significant concern for both accessibility and SEO. Screen readers rely on alt text to describe images to visually impaired users, and search engines use alt text to understand image content. Only 93% of images have proper alt text — we recommend adding descriptive alt attributes to all images. The link structure consists of 64 internal links pointing to other pages on the same domain and 67 external links pointing to third-party websites. There are 27 external JavaScript files, 2 CSS stylesheets, and 0 iframes on the page. Notable missing features: XML Sitemap, robots.txt, and Schema.org structured data. Adding these could improve search engine discoverability and rich result eligibility. The website has social media presence across 2 platforms: Twitter (@MayorBowser) and Github (@newrelic). An active social media presence is a positive trust indicator and helps build brand awareness and customer engagement.

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The title tag for dc.gov is good at 4 characters: "| DC". The length is acceptable, though it may be slightly truncated in some search result displays. No meta description is configured for dc.gov. This is a critical SEO oversight — without a meta description, Google will auto-generate a snippet from page content, which may not accurately represent the page or entice users to click. Adding a unique, compelling meta description of 120-155 characters is strongly recommended. The canonical url is correctly set to https://dc.gov/portalwip, preventing duplicate content issues, the page language is declared as en, and a favicon is configured. No Open Graph tags are configured. When someone shares a link to dc.gov on social media, the platform will have to guess the title, description, and image — often producing unattractive or inaccurate previews. Adding OG tags is essential for social media marketing. A Twitter Card of type summary is configured, which controls how links appear when shared on Twitter/X. The "summary" type displays a large image preview, which typically generates higher engagement rates than the basic card type.

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Related domain discovery works by finding other websites that share the same IP address, Google Tag Manager container ID, Google Analytics property, or advertising pixel IDs with dc.gov. This data becomes available after batch-crawling the domain database — individual domain lookups cannot populate this section. We extracted the following tracking IDs that can be used for cross-referencing: ga4_id: G-XLLLT5975Z.