free.fr

Readiness by lane

Green: free.fr. Thin bar: Telecommunications & Internet peer median.

Priority fixes for free.fr

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

1. Priority 1 · Harden

   HSTS kept for at least a year

   Observed: The homepage response did not include a Strict-Transport-Security header.

   Why it matters: HSTS tells browsers to use HTTPS for your host on every later visit, which removes the window where a first HTTP request can be intercepted.

   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 Next.js: Add the header in the headers() option of next.config.js for all routes.

   54% of Telecommunications & Internet peers do this. Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 53 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   What to do: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG or PNG fallback, either through an image CDN or by generating both formats at build time.

   On Next.js: The next/image component serves optimized formats automatically.

   52% of Telecommunications & Internet peers do this.

   Guide: AVIF, WebP, JPEG, and PNG: Choose the Right Image Format

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for 1 hours, short of the 30-day benchmark.

   What to do: Give versioned (fingerprinted) CSS, JavaScript, fonts and images Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable, and change the file name whenever the content changes.

   41% of Telecommunications & Internet peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

4. Priority 4 · Accelerate

   No render-blocking scripts in <head>

   Observed: The homepage <head> loaded 1 external script without async or defer.

   What to do: Add defer to scripts that need the DOM, async to independent ones such as analytics, or move them to the end of the body.

   On Next.js: Use the next/script component with an appropriate loading strategy.

   37% of Telecommunications & Internet peers do this.

   Guide: Control Third-Party Scripts Before They Control Your Page

What free.fr already does well

Practices fewer than half of Telecommunications & Internet peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.13% of peers
• Certificate lifetime of 100 days or lessShort-lived 90-day certificate from Sectigo Limited, already inside the 2027 limit.28% of peers
• Reachable over IPv6IPv6 address published.33% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.free.fr/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Sectigo, 90-day validity, expiring 2026-12-31

Platform or framework

Next.js

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

694 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

53 (svg 21, png 19, jpg 17)

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

Stack and providers

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