rdw.nl

Readiness by lane

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

Priority fixes for rdw.nl

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

1. Priority 1 · Enable

   Meta description written

   Observed: The homepage had no meta description.

   Why it matters: Search engines often use it for the snippet under your link, so a clear description can improve click-through.

   What to do: Write a short, specific description of the page for people, not a list of keywords.

   58% 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: Meta Titles and Descriptions That Match Search Intent

2. Priority 2 · Accelerate

   Modern image formats in use

   Observed: The homepage had 9 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 Cloudflare: Cloudflare Polish can convert images to WebP.

   15% of Government Services peers do this.

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

3. Priority 3 · Accelerate

   Offscreen images lazy-loaded

   Observed: The homepage had 9 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 · 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.

   36% of Government Services peers do this.

   Guide: SEO Checklist for a New Website

What rdw.nl already does well

Practices fewer than half of Government Services peers use.

• security.txt publishedsecurity.txt with a contact found.8% of peers
• CAA records limit who can issue certificatesCAA limits issuance to digicert.com, entrust.net, quovadisglobal.com and others.17% of peers
• DNSSEC signedDNSSEC delegation (DS record) present.19% of peers

What we saw

Homepage checked

https://www.rdw.nl/

Homepage response

HTTP 200

TLS

TLSv1.3, HTTP/2

Certificate

Sectigo, 198-day validity, expiring 2026-11-13

CDN or edge

Cloudflare

Platform or framework

Sitecore

DNS operators

1 self-run or other nameserver domain

HSTS

max-age 365 days

DMARC policy

p=quarantine

Homepage HTML

69 KB, gzip

Images on homepage

9 (jpg 28, svg 5)

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

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Compare with other Government Services sites

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