Government digital experience standards

Based on public policy, web protocol, guidelines and best practices.

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Indicators	Guidance	Standards
	21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) Modernizes government websites and digital services.	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) Page title Page description Viewport meta tag
	U.S. Federal Website Standards Improves accessibility, consistency and user experience.	Page title Page description
	Google Search Central Resources to improve site search rankings.	Canonicalization hreflang Link text www resolution
	GSA Site Scanning Checks and tracks federal .gov websites.	Canonicalization Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) Open Graph site name Open Graph type Open Graph title Open Graph description Open Graph URL Open Graph image Open Graph image alt Page title Page description sitemap.xml Viewport meta tag
	Memorandum (M-23-22) Delivering a digital-first public experience.	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) Page title Page description Viewport meta tag
	Open Graph Improves how social media content shows.	Open Graph site name Open Graph type Open Graph title Open Graph description Open Graph URL Open Graph image Open Graph image alt
	sitemaps.org Website sitemap standards.	sitemap.xml
	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Rules for making websites accessible.	Accessibility best practices ARIA attributes Audio and video Character encoding Color contrast Hidden elements Image aspect ratio Language Names and labels Navigation Tables and lists Valid doctype Valid language code Zooming/scaling enabled
	The Web Robots Pages Guidelines for controlling search engine crawling.	robots.txt
	Schema.org structured data Standards for providing structured data to search engines, llm crawlers and other machine parsers.	GovernmentOrganization Schema.org Type
	Web Vitals / Core Web Vitals Google's speed, interaction, and stability metrics.	Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) First Contentful Paint (FCP) Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Time to First Byte (TTFB)