independer.nl

Readiness by lane

Green: independer.nl. Thin bar: Insurance & Financial Planning peer median.

Priority fixes for independer.nl

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.

   81% of Insurance & Financial Planning 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 · Accelerate

   Static files cached for 30 days or more

   Observed: A same-site stylesheet or script was cacheable for no max-age, 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.

   51% of Insurance & Financial Planning peers do this.

   Guide: Browser Caching Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 14 images and none used loading="lazy".

   What to do: Add loading="lazy" to images below the fold. Do not lazy-load the main hero image, because that delays the largest visible element.

   67% of Insurance & Financial Planning peers do this.

   Guide: Lazy Loading Without Broken Pages

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.

   43% of Insurance & Financial Planning peers do this.

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

What independer.nl already does well

Practices fewer than half of Insurance & Financial Planning peers use.

• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to amazon.com, digicert.com, globalsign.com and others.15% of peers
• DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.17% of peers
• Nameservers spread across providersNameservers spread across more than one operator.19% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.independer.nl/

Homepage response

HTTP 200, after 2 redirects

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Trust Provider B.V., 198-day validity, expiring 2027-02-27

DNS operators

4 self-run or other nameserver domains

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains, preload

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

170 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

14 (svg 7, webp 3, png 2, avif 1)

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

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