autoscout24.at

Readiness by lane

Green: autoscout24.at. Thin bar: Cars & Automotive peer median.

Priority fixes for autoscout24.at

Ordered by impact and by how common each practice is among peers.

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   XML sitemap discoverable

   Observed: No sitemap was listed in robots.txt or found at /sitemap.xml.

   Why it matters: A sitemap helps search engines find new and updated pages, especially on large or frequently updated sites.

   What to do: Generate an XML sitemap of canonical URLs, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console.

   83% of Cars & Automotive peers do this. Limit: Only the standard location was requested, once, at the time of the check.

   Guide: XML Sitemap Guide: Include Only URLs You Stand Behind

2. Priority 2 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: Strict-Transport-Security was sent with a max-age of 180 days, below the one-year benchmark.

   What to do: Send Strict-Transport-Security on HTTPS responses. Start with a short max-age (for example 300 seconds), confirm every subdomain works over HTTPS, then raise it in steps to 31536000. Add includeSubDomains only when all subdomains are HTTPS. HSTS preload is optional and hard to undo; hstspreload.org itself does not recommend it by default.

   On Amazon CloudFront: Attach a response headers policy with Strict-Transport-Security to each distribution.

   41% of Cars & Automotive peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Enable

   Social preview image set

   Observed: The homepage had no og:image, so shared links may show without a preview image.

   What to do: Add Open Graph tags, including og:image with a 1200 x 630 image.

   62% of Cars & Automotive peers do this.

   Guide: SEO Checklist for a New Website

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Content Security Policy present

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Content-Security-Policy header.

   What to do: Start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only to see what would break, tighten the policy over a few weeks, then enforce it.

   31% of Cars & Automotive peers do this.

   Guide: Payment Security and PCI DSS: What Website Owners Need to Know

What autoscout24.at already does well

Practices fewer than half of Cars & Automotive peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.8.9% of peers
• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=reject.41% of peers
• No render-blocking scripts in <head>Head scripts load without blocking.45% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.autoscout24.at/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Amazon, 197-day validity, expiring 2027-03-15

CDN or edge

Amazon CloudFront

DNS operators

Amazon Route 53

HSTS

max-age 180 days

DMARC policy

p=reject

Homepage HTML

967 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

68 (png 94, jpg 61, webp 40, svg 26)

Limits: homepage only, one location, one moment. Header checks reflect the homepage response; other pages may differ.

Stack and providers

Seen in the homepage response, certificate and DNS. Provider pages compare how their customers configure the same checks.

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