politie.nl

Readiness by lane

Green: politie.nl. Thin bar: Government Services peer median.

Priority fixes for politie.nl

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

1. Priority 1 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 8 images and none used WebP or AVIF.

   Why it matters: WebP and AVIF are typically much smaller than JPEG or PNG at similar quality, and images are often the heaviest part of a page.

   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 Nuxt: Nuxt Image can output WebP and AVIF.

   15% of Government Services peers do this. Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.

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

2. Priority 2 · Enable

   Canonical URL declared

   Observed: The homepage did not declare a canonical URL.

   What to do: Add a self-referencing canonical link to every indexable page, using the final https:// URL.

   41% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Canonical Tags: A Decision Guide for Duplicate URLs

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 8 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.

   36% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: Lazy Loading Without Broken Pages

4. Priority 4 · Harden

   Certificate lifetime of 100 days or less

   Observed: The certificate from Sectigo Limited had a 198-day validity period, longer than the 100-day maximum that applies from March 2027.

   What to do: Move to automated issuance and renewal now, while you still have time to test it.

   34% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: HTTPS and TLS Guide for Website Owners

What politie.nl already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.8% of peers
• HTTP/3 advertisedHTTP/3 advertised.11% of peers
• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to actalis.it, quovadisglobal.com, sectigo.com.17% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.politie.nl/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Sectigo, 198-day validity, expiring 2027-01-15

Platform or framework

Nuxt

DNS operators

Akamai Edge DNS, plus 1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 365 days, includeSubDomains

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

95 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

8 (svg 7, jpg 1)

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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Compare with other Government Services sites

• form.gov.sg85
• iditena.org84
• nsw.gov.au86
• rijksoverheid.nl88
• whitehouse.gov90

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