pnet.co.za

Readiness by lane

Green: pnet.co.za. Thin bar: Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peer median.

Priority fixes for pnet.co.za

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.

   77% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment 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.

   36% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

3. Priority 3 · 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.

   48% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment 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 2 external scripts 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.

   47% of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers do this.

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

What pnet.co.za already does well

Practices fewer than half of Job Portals, HR & Recruitment peers use.

• DMARC policy enforces quarantine or rejectDMARC policy p=quarantine.45% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.pnet.co.za/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

DigiCert, 364-day validity, expiring 2027-02-16

CDN or edge

Akamai

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 180 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

355 KB, br

Images on homepage

2 (png 2)

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.

All 31 checks

Select a gap for the method and fix. How each check works

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