Guidance

Public policy, web protocol, guidelines and best practices used to develop the ScanGov Standards.

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Modernizes government websites and digital services.
State and local government web accessibility requirements.
Measures text reading difficulty levels.
Voluntary, high-impact security practices.
Improves accessibility, consistency and user experience.
Resources to improve site search rankings.
Checks and tracks federal .gov websites.
Delivering a digital-first public experience.
Improves how social media content shows.
Helps make websites and apps safer.
Mandates government documents use simple language.
A file format to aid in security vulnerability disclosure.
Website sitemap standards.
Rules for making websites accessible.
Guidelines for controlling search engine crawling.
Standards for providing structured data to search engines, llm crawlers and other machine parsers.
Protect websites from cyber threats.
Google's speed, interaction, and stability metrics.
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