# BeaverCheck Audit Report — http://www.rheinmetall.ch

**Date:** September 27, 2026  
**URL:** http://www.rheinmetall.ch  
**Overall Grade:** B (80/100)  
**Report:** https://beavercheck.com/results/fd85d4f1-9c7d-42c4-8c71-de6d80a12f4b

## Top Findings

1. **[CRITICAL]** Connection is not encrypted (plain HTTP) — Security > TLS & Certificates
2. **[CRITICAL]** Soft 404: server returns HTTP 200 for non-existent pages — Accessibility > 404 Error Page
3. **[WARNING]** 1 `@font-face` rule(s) without `font-display` -- causes FOIT — Performance > CSS Performance Depth
4. **[WARNING]** 3 publicly-accessible JavaScript source map(s) — Security > Source Map Exposure
5. **[WARNING]** 4 render-blocking <script src> tag(s) without async/defer — Performance > JavaScript Blocking

---

## Lighthouse Scores

| Category | Score |
|----------|-------|
| Performance | 55 |
| Accessibility | 100 |
| Best Practices | 81 |
| SEO | 100 |

---

## Security

### Security Headers (C — 55/100)

*5 of 10 headers properly configured*

- **[PASS]** HSTS is enabled with preload
- **[WARNING]** X-Content-Type-Options header is missing — This header prevents MIME-type sniffing, which can lead to XSS attacks. Set it to 'nosniff'.
- **[PASS]** X-Frame-Options is properly configured
- **[WARNING]** Referrer-Policy header is missing — Controls how much referrer information is sent with requests. Set to 'strict-origin-when-cross-origin' or stricter.
- **[WARNING]** Permissions-Policy header is missing — Controls which browser features (camera, microphone, geolocation) are allowed. Set it to restrict unused features.
- **[PASS]** Content-Security-Policy is present
- **[WARNING]** Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy header is missing — COOP isolates your browsing context, preventing cross-origin side-channel attacks. Set to 'same-origin'.
- **[WARNING]** Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy header is missing — COEP prevents loading cross-origin resources without explicit permission. Required for SharedArrayBuffer and high-resolution timers.
- **[PASS]** X-Powered-By header is not present
- **[PASS]** Server header is not present
- **[INFO]** Domain is not in the Chrome HSTS preload list (status: unknown) — Submit your domain to hstspreload.org to close the trust-on-first-use gap. Requires a preload-ready HSTS header (max-age=31536000+, includeSubDomains, preload).

### Content Security Policy (B — 70/100)

*2 of 10 CSP checks passed*

- **[INFO]** Raw CSP policy
- **[WARNING]** default-src directive is missing — default-src provides a fallback for other directives. Set it to restrict default resource loading.
- **[INFO]** No script-src or default-src to check for 'unsafe-inline'
- **[INFO]** No script-src or default-src to check for 'unsafe-eval'
- **[INFO]** No script-src or default-src to check for wildcard
- **[PASS]** object-src falls back to default-src
- **[WARNING]** base-uri directive is missing — Without base-uri, attackers can inject a <base> tag to hijack relative URLs. Set it to 'self' or 'none'.
- **[PASS]** frame-ancestors directive is set
- **[WARNING]** form-action directive is missing — form-action restricts where forms can submit data, preventing form hijacking.
- **[INFO]** upgrade-insecure-requests is not set — This directive upgrades HTTP resources to HTTPS automatically, preventing mixed content.

### TLS & Certificates (F — 0/100)

*Connection is not encrypted*

- **[CRITICAL]** Connection is not encrypted (plain HTTP) — The site does not use HTTPS. All traffic is sent in plaintext and vulnerable to interception. Enable TLS with a valid certificate.

### Cookie Security (A+ — 100/100)

*No cookies set — no cookie security risks*

- **[PASS]** No cookies set — no cookie security risks

### Cookie Hygiene (A+ — 100/100)

*No cookies set -- cookie-hygiene check is N/A*

- **[PASS]** No cookies set

### WAF / Bot Protection (B — 75/100)

*No WAF detected via response headers*

- **[INFO]** No WAF detected — Response headers don't match any known WAF or bot-management product. Sites exposed to abuse (login, signup, payment) typically benefit from a WAF such as Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, or Imperva.

### security.txt (B — 70/100)

*Vulnerability disclosure policy*

- **[PASS]** security.txt found
- **[WARNING]** security.txt: Missing required 'Contact' field
- **[WARNING]** security.txt: Missing required 'Expires' field (RFC 9116)

### Cross-Origin Tab Safety (A+ — 100/100)

*All 10 new-tab link(s) carry rel=noopener*

- **[PASS]** All 10 new-tab link(s) carry rel=noopener

### CSP Inline-Style Readiness (B — 90/100)

*4 inline style attribute(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** 4 inline style attribute(s) detected — Each `style=""` attribute forces `style-src 'unsafe-inline'` in any Content-Security-Policy, which negates most of CSP's XSS-mitigation value. 4 inline style(s) is low. Affected element types include: path, g, div. Move styles to a stylesheet; use CSS custom properties for runtime-dynamic values; or adopt a nonce/hash CSP policy. Most teams take the stylesheet path because it's also a maintainability win.

### Trusted Types (XSS Sink Hardening) (B — 95/100)

*Trusted Types not enabled*

- **[INFO]** Trusted Types not enabled — Trusted Types (CSP3) is a Chrome 83+ defense that requires DOM-XSS sinks (innerHTML, document.write, eval, ...) to receive a typed-and-sanitized value rather than a raw string. Adding `Content-Security-Policy: require-trusted-types-for 'script'; trusted-types default` neutralizes most DOM-XSS even when a payload reaches a sink. Adoption is currently ~0.1% of pages so this is informational; a roll-out usually starts in report-only mode.

### Bot Challenge Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*Scan reached real page content (no bot-protection interstitial)*

- **[PASS]** No bot-protection interstitial detected -- the rest of the report reflects the real page

### Soft-404 Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*HTTP status is non-2xx -- soft-404 check is N/A*

- **[PASS]** HTTP status is non-2xx -- soft-404 check is N/A

### Empty Page Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*Page has substantive body text and no placeholder / template-leak signals*

- **[PASS]** Page has substantive body text and no placeholder / template-leak signals

### Geo-Restriction Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*No geo-restriction signals detected -- scan reached the page from an allowed region*

- **[PASS]** No geo-restriction detected

### Maintenance Mode Detection (A+ — 100/100)

*No maintenance-mode signals detected -- scan reached a normal page*

- **[PASS]** No maintenance-mode signals detected

### Subresource Integrity Adoption (F — 30/100)

*0% SRI adoption (0/10 third-party resources)*

- **[WARNING]** SRI adoption: 0/10 third-party resources protected (0%) — Of 10 third-party `<script>` / `<link rel=stylesheet>` resources, 0 (0%) declare a Subresource Integrity hash via the `integrity=` attribute. SRI binds the page to the exact bytes of the third-party resource: if the CDN is compromised, attacker-modified bytes won't match the declared hash and the browser refuses to execute the resource.

Missing SRI on (first 5 examples):
  - https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-KCLTRK6
  - https://web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu/ui/loader.js
  - https://sdp.eu.usercentrics.eu/latest/uc-block.bundle.js
  - https://web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu/ui/v/4.20.0/WebSdk.lib.8e67814b.js
  - https://web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu/ui/v/4.20.0/GdprCmpController.f1f19c11.js

Fix: add `integrity="sha384-..."` and `crossorigin="anonymous"` attributes. Generators: srihash.org, or in-browser via `await crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-384', bytes)`. Cache-bust the resource URL when you change versions, since the integrity hash will mismatch with old cached bytes.

### CORS Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*No CORS response headers -- the resource is same-origin-only by browser default*

- **[PASS]** No CORS response headers -- the resource is same-origin-only by browser default

### Permissions-Policy Granularity (C — 60/100)

*No Permissions-Policy header set -- powerful features (camera / microphone / geolocation / payment / USB) default to allow-on-same-origin*

- **[WARNING]** Permissions-Policy header not set -- features default to allow-on-same-origin — Without a `Permissions-Policy` (or legacy `Feature-Policy`) header, every powerful browser feature defaults to its spec default policy (typically `self`). A third-party iframe injected via XSS or a misconfigured embed can still request access to the user's camera, microphone, geolocation, payment APIs, USB devices, etc. Explicitly deny features the page doesn't need:

```
Permissions-Policy: camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=(), payment=(), usb=(), accelerometer=(), gyroscope=()
```

Features the page legitimately uses can stay enabled with `feature=(self)`.

### Referrer-Policy Strictness (B — 75/100)

*Referrer-Policy header not set -- browser default applies (modern: strict-origin-when-cross-origin; legacy browsers: no-referrer-when-downgrade)*

- **[INFO]** Referrer-Policy header not set -- browser default applies — Without an explicit `Referrer-Policy` header, the browser falls back to its default policy. Modern browsers (Chrome 85+, Firefox 87+, Safari 15+) default to `strict-origin-when-cross-origin`, which is privacy-safe. Legacy browsers default to the leaky `no-referrer-when-downgrade`, which sends the full URL (including path + query) on cross-origin HTTPS-to-HTTPS requests. Set an explicit header to ensure consistent behavior:

```
Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
```

This matches the modern browser default and is privacy-safe without breaking referrer-based same-origin analytics.

### Source Map Exposure (D — 60/100)

*3 publicly-accessible source map(s) -- full source code leaked*

- **[WARNING]** 3 publicly-accessible JavaScript source map(s) — Source maps (.js.map files) reveal the original source code -- variable names, comments, file structure, and sometimes secrets that were stripped from the bundled output. They're shipped to production by mistake almost universally; the standard fix is a build-tool config flag (Webpack: `devtool: false` or `'hidden-source-map'`; Vite: `build.sourcemap: false`; Next.js: `productionBrowserSourceMaps: false`). Once removed, audit your CDN/edge cache to evict any previously-cached .map URLs. Sample accessible URLs: http://www.rheinmetall.ch/_nuxt/2a968b1.modern.js.map, http://www.rheinmetall.ch/_nuxt/7439d2a.modern.js.map, http://www.rheinmetall.ch/_nuxt/6f2f567.modern.js.map.

### HTML Version Disclosure (A+ — 100/100)

*No software-version disclosures in HTML*

- **[PASS]** No software-version disclosures in HTML

### Open Redirect Surface (A+ — 100/100)

*No redirect-shaped query parameters in DOM links*

- **[PASS]** No redirect-shaped query parameters in DOM links

### Auth Security (A+ — 100/100)

*Page is not a login form -- auth-security checks are N/A*

- **[PASS]** Page does not appear to be a login form

---

## Advanced Security

### Subresource Integrity (F — 20/100)

*0 of 10 external resources have SRI*

- **[WARNING]** External script from www.googletagmanager.com lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from sdp.eu.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.
- **[WARNING]** External script from web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu lacks integrity attribute — Without SRI, if this CDN is compromised, attackers could inject malicious code.

### JS Library Vulnerabilities (A+ — 100/100)

*No known vulnerabilities*

- **[PASS]** No known JavaScript library vulnerabilities detected

### Information Leakage (A+ — 100/100)

*No exposures*

- **[PASS]** security.txt is present — good practice
- **[PASS]** No sensitive files exposed

### Email Security (F — 0/100)

*no DMARC, no SPF*

- **[WARNING]** No DMARC record found — Without DMARC, email receivers have no policy for handling authentication failures. Add a TXT record at _dmarc.<domain> starting with v=DMARC1.
- **[WARNING]** No SPF record found — Without SPF (Sender Policy Framework), receivers can't tell which servers are authorized to send mail for your domain. Add a TXT record at the apex starting with v=spf1, ending in -all.
- **[INFO]** No DKIM detected via common selectors — DKIM signs outbound mail to prove origin. We probed common selectors (default, google, selector1, etc.) without finding a record. If you use a non-standard selector, this is a false negative.
- **[INFO]** MTA-STS not configured — MTA-STS forces inbound mail to use TLS, preventing downgrade attacks. Requires both a TXT record at _mta-sts.<domain> and a policy file at https://mta-sts.<domain>/.well-known/mta-sts.txt.
- **[INFO]** TLS-RPT not configured — TLS-RPT (RFC 8460) lets MTAs report TLS-handshake failures, so you can detect and fix MTA-STS misconfigurations. Add a TXT record at _smtp._tls.<domain>.
- **[INFO]** BIMI not configured — BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) lets supporting clients (Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo) display your verified logo next to your messages. Optional but raises trust signals. Requires DMARC at p=quarantine or p=reject to be honored.

### API Surface (A+ — 100/100)

*No API specs or GraphQL introspection found (probed 11 candidate path(s))*

- **[PASS]** No API specs or GraphQL introspection found (probed 11 path(s))

### Permissions-Policy (D — 40/100)

*No header set*

- **[WARNING]** No Permissions-Policy header — Consider adding a Permissions-Policy header to restrict browser feature access from embedded content.

### CORS Configuration (B — 80/100)

*No CORS headers*

- **[PASS]** No CORS headers present — secure default

---

## Performance

### Page Weight Budget (B — 75/100)

*1.4 MB transferred, 66 requests*

- **[PASS]** Page weighs 3.2 MB (1.4 MB transferred)
- **[INFO]** 66 HTTP requests
- **[INFO]** Estimated 0.29 g CO2 per page load

### Third-Party Impact (D — 50/100)

*100% third-party, 0 ms blocking*

- **[WARNING]** Third-party code accounts for 100% of page weight (1.4 MiB of 1.4 MiB)
- **[PASS]** Third-party blocking time is low (0 ms)

### Text Compression (A+ — 100/100)

*All text resources are compressed*

- **[PASS]** All text resources are compressed

### Image Optimization (B — 80/100)

*19 images, 0 KB saveable*

- **[PASS]** All images are well-optimized

### JS Execution Cost (F — 20/100)

*4051ms total JS execution*

- **[WARNING]** https://www.rheinmetall.com/de: 1064ms CPU time
- **[WARNING]** https://sdp.eu.usercentrics.eu/latest/uc-block.bun...: 980ms CPU time
- **[WARNING]** Unattributable: 733ms CPU time
- **[WARNING]** https://www.rheinmetall.com/_nuxt/097815e.modern.j...: 398ms CPU time
- **[WARNING]** https://www.rheinmetall.com/_nuxt/218e744.modern.j...: 339ms CPU time
- **[WARNING]** Third-party scripts: 3318ms (82% of total)

### Font Loading (A+ — 100/100)

*5 fonts (154 KB)*

- **[INFO]** 5 font(s) use font-display: swap (FOUT risk but functional)

### JS Bundles (B — 80/100)

*28 scripts, 108 KB unused*

- **[WARNING]** https://www.rheinmetall.com/_nuxt/ddc5f93.modern.j...: 62 KB unused (67%) — Consider code splitting or tree shaking to reduce unused code.
- **[WARNING]** https://www.rheinmetall.com/_nuxt/097815e.modern.j...: 24 KB unused (34%) — Consider code splitting or tree shaking to reduce unused code.
- **[WARNING]** https://www.rheinmetall.com/_nuxt/20e714b.modern.j...: 22 KB unused (61%) — Consider code splitting or tree shaking to reduce unused code.
- **[INFO]** Total unused JavaScript: 108 KB

### Resource Caching (A+ — 100/100)

*All resources properly cached*

- **[PASS]** No caching issues found

### Critical Rendering Path (A+ — 100/100)

*No render-blocking resources*

- **[PASS]** No render-blocking resources detected

### Resource Hints (A+ — 100/100)

*12 hints, 0 missing preconnects*

- **[PASS]** Page uses 12 resource hint(s)

### HTTP/3 (QUIC) (B — 75/100)

*HTTP/3 not advertised*

- **[INFO]** HTTP/3 (QUIC) is not advertised — HTTP/3 isn't advertised via Alt-Svc and the worker didn't negotiate h3. HTTP/3 reduces handshake latency (1-RTT instead of 2-3 RTTs) and is more resilient on lossy connections. Most modern CDNs (Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN) support HTTP/3 with a single config switch -- consider enabling for mobile-heavy workloads.

### Document Compression (C — 70/100)

*Document response served uncompressed*

- **[INFO]** Main HTML response has no Content-Encoding (uncompressed) — The main HTML document is served without compression. The Text Compression section above lists the broader picture; for the main response specifically, even gzip would shave ~70-80% off most text payloads.

### Asset Compression (A+ — 100/100)

*All 1 asset host use brotli*

- **[PASS]** web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu serves assets with brotli (assets: 8)

### LCP Image Preload (A+ — 100/100)

*LCP preload audit not available*

- **[PASS]** LCP image preload audit not available for this scan

### Main HTML Cache-Control (A+ — 100/100)

*Main HTML uses no-cache -- safe revalidate-on-request policy*

- **[PASS]** Main HTML uses no-cache -- safe revalidate-on-request policy

### Server-Timing Observability (B — 85/100)

*No Server-Timing header found*

- **[INFO]** No Server-Timing header found — Server-Timing exposes backend timing breakdowns to browser DevTools (e.g., `db: 45ms; render: 120ms; cache: 2ms`). Useful for diagnosing slow pages without backend log access. Most modern frameworks (Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, Fastly) emit it automatically; absence on a managed platform usually means telemetry headers are stripped at the edge.

### Server Response Intelligence (A+ — 95/100)

*1 server-response signal(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** No `ETag` or `Last-Modified` -- conditional GET not supported — Without either header, browsers can't issue conditional GETs and refresh always re-downloads the full response body even when nothing changed. Add `ETag: "<hash>"` (or `Last-Modified: <date>`) on cacheable responses; the server returns 304 Not Modified when the client's cached copy is still valid, saving bandwidth.

### Page Weight Inventory (C — 55/100)

*66 resources · 1.4 MB · 108 KB savings available*

- **[WARNING]** Page weight 1.4 MB exceeds 1 MB target by 380 KB
- **[INFO]** ~108 KB of savings available
- **[WARNING]** 64 third-party resources (100% of weight)

### Render-Blocking Resources (A+ — 100/100)

*No render-blocking resources detected*

- **[PASS]** No render-blocking resources detected in <head>

### Third-Party Resources (A+ — 100/100)

*No third-party resources detected*


### JavaScript Blocking (B — 78/100)

*2 JS blocking issue(s) detected*

- **[WARNING]** 4 render-blocking <script src> tag(s) without async/defer — Each `<script src=...>` without `async`, `defer`, or `type="module"` blocks HTML parsing while the browser fetches and executes it. The block lasts the entire round-trip + execution time -- on slow networks this translates directly into LCP delay. Add `defer` (executes after parse, in source order) for scripts that interact with the DOM, or `async` (executes whenever ready) for analytics / independent scripts. Module scripts (`type="module"`) are deferred by default.
- **[WARNING]** Total JS execution time is 4.1 s -- over the 3.5s budget — Total JavaScript execution (parse + compile + run) across all scripts exceeds 3.5 seconds. On low-end devices that becomes 7-15+ seconds and shows up directly in TBT and INP. Reduce by: tree-shaking unused dependencies, code-splitting (dynamic `import()`), removing or deferring third-party tracking, and replacing heavy frameworks where they're not needed.

### CSS Performance Depth (A — 90/100)

*1 CSS depth issue(s) detected*

- **[WARNING]** 1 `@font-face` rule(s) without `font-display` -- causes FOIT — An `@font-face` rule without `font-display` causes Flash of Invisible Text (FOIT): the browser hides the styled text for up to 3 seconds while the custom font downloads, then either swaps to fallback (Chrome / Firefox) or stays invisible (older Safari). Add `font-display: swap` (shows fallback immediately, swaps in the custom font when ready) or `font-display: optional` (uses fallback if the font isn't ready in 100ms; never causes visible swap). Either eliminates FOIT outright.

---

## Content Quality

### Links (B — 85/100)

*133 links checked, 130 healthy, 3 broken*

- **[WARNING]** 130 of 133 links are healthy
- **[WARNING]** Broken link: https://www.rheinmetall.com/cn — Found in <link href>. Returns HTTP 500.
- **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://www.instagram.com/rheinmetallag/ — Found in <a href>. Returns HTTP 429.
- **[CRITICAL]** Broken link: https://www.kununu.com/de/rheinmetall-group — Found in <a href>. Returns HTTP 405.

### Mixed Content (A+ — 100/100)

*Page is served over HTTP — mixed content check is not applicable.*

- **[INFO]** Page is served over HTTP — mixed content check is not applicable

### Open Graph (D — 60/100)

*Open Graph tags need attention — social sharing previews may be incomplete.*

- **[WARNING]** Missing og:description — The og:description tag controls the description in social sharing previews.
- **[WARNING]** og:image is not an image — The og:image URL returned MIME type "text/html; charset=utf-8", which is not an image.
- **[INFO]** Missing og:url — The og:url tag specifies the canonical URL for the shared content.
- **[INFO]** Missing og:type — The og:type tag helps social platforms categorize the content.
- **[INFO]** Missing og:site_name — The og:site_name tag displays the website name in social previews.
- **[INFO]** Missing twitter:card — Without twitter:card, Twitter falls back to Open Graph tags. Adding it gives you more control.

### Open Graph / Twitter Card Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*OG image dimensions and Twitter card configuration look healthy*

- **[PASS]** OG/Twitter Card depth is clean -- dimensions, card type, and inheritance all valid

### Structured Data (A+ — 100/100)

*1 JSON-LD block(s) found — structured data is well configured.*


### Rich Results Eligibility (A+ — 100/100)

*1 JSON-LD block(s) declaring 1 schema type(s)*

- **[PASS]** 1 rich-result schema type(s) declared — Inventory of structured-data types on the page (each may unlock a different SERP feature):

Organization

Search engines decide whether to render rich results based on content quality + page-level signals; declaring the schema is necessary but not sufficient.

### Image Optimization (A — 90/100)

*2 issues found across 26 images*

- **[INFO]** 24 of 26 images use legacy formats
- **[INFO]** 2 image(s) rendered at a different aspect ratio than the source — The displayed dimensions distort the source -- CSS is forcing the image into a container at the wrong ratio, producing visible stretching or squashing. Either crop the source to match or use object-fit: cover (and accept the crop). Sample: https://www.rheinmetall.com/Rheinmetall%20Group/General/Videos/171935/image-thumb__171935__hero-stage/Rheinmetall-Stage-Default~-~media--ec369c47--query.8dda0fb5.avif?1734097360, https://www.rheinmetall.com/Rheinmetall%20Group/Presse/Stories/2023/Ukraine/33541/image-thumb__33541__teaser-image-text-wide/Rheinmetall-Story-Unterstuetzung-Ukraine-Buehne.e1498ba5.avif?1687944612.

### Autoplay Media (B — 90/100)

*1 autoplay media element(s) -- all muted*

- **[INFO]** 1 autoplay media element(s) on page (muted) — Autoplay video transfers bytes whether the user engages or not -- a sustainability concern even when muted. Consider replacing with a static poster image and a click-to-play overlay; the user opts in to the bandwidth cost.

---

## Infrastructure

### DNS Records (B — 75/100)

*1 A records, 215 ms lookup*

- **[PASS]** Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
- **[INFO]** Single A record — no DNS redundancy — Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
- **[INFO]** No IPv6 (AAAA) records
- **[INFO]** No NS records found
- **[INFO]** No MX records — email not configured via DNS
- **[INFO]** No SPF record found in TXT records — SPF helps prevent email spoofing. Add a TXT record starting with 'v=spf1'.
- **[WARNING]** DNS resolution is slow (215 ms) — Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider.

### Subdomain Takeover (A+ — 100/100)

*No subdomain takeover risk detected*

- **[PASS]** No CNAME record present

### DNSSEC (B — 80/100)

*Unsigned (DNSSEC not deployed)*

- **[INFO]** DNSSEC is not deployed — The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. Users on validating resolvers (Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, Quad9 9.9.9.9, growing default in mobile resolvers) get no protection against DNS spoofing for this domain. Most registrars now offer DNSSEC at a single click; consider enabling it for sites where authenticity matters (banking, healthcare, government).

### CAA Records (B — 80/100)

*No CAA records (any CA may issue certificates)*

- **[INFO]** No CAA records published — Without CAA records, any publicly-trusted CA can issue certificates for this domain. Adding a CAA record (`yourdomain. IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org"`) restricts issuance to CAs you authorize. Required by CAB Forum baseline since 2017; the default of 'any CA' is widely supported but is the broader attack surface for issuance fraud.

### Reverse DNS (B — 75/100)

*1 PTR record(s) found (no cert data to match against)*

- **[INFO]** PTR lookup failed for 193.35.218.2: lookup 193.35.218.2: no such host

### Multi-Resolver DNS Speed (B — 80/100)

*Mean 69ms across 3 resolvers (spread 195ms)*

- **[PASS]** Cloudflare: 4ms
- **[PASS]** Google: 6ms
- **[PASS]** Quad9: 199ms

### Redirect Chain (F — 30/100)

*3 redirect(s), 1035 ms total*

- **[WARNING]** 3 redirects before reaching final URL — Each redirect adds latency. Try to minimize the chain to 1 hop.
- **[INFO]** HTTP to HTTPS redirect present
- **[INFO]** Uses 302 (temporary) redirect — If permanent, use 301 instead.
- **[WARNING]** Redirect overhead: 1035 ms total
- **[INFO]** Cross-domain redirect detected

### IPv6 Readiness (C — 60/100)

*No IPv6 support*

- **[INFO]** No IPv6 (AAAA) records found — IPv6 support is increasingly important for global accessibility. About 40% of internet users have IPv6 connectivity.

### Crawlability (C — 65/100)

*robots.txt present, sitemap with 0 URLs*

- **[PASS]** robots.txt is present
- **[PASS]** sitemap.xml is present
- **[WARNING]** sitemap.xml contains invalid XML — Search engines may not be able to parse the sitemap. Fix XML validation errors.
- **[WARNING]** sitemap.xml is empty — no URLs found — An empty sitemap provides no value. Add <url> entries for your pages.
- **[INFO]** robots.txt does not reference a sitemap — Add a 'Sitemap:' directive to robots.txt so search engines can discover your sitemap.

### URL Variants (A+ — 100/100)

*www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS*

- **[PASS]** www/non-www redirect configured correctly (preferred: www)

### Domain Intelligence

*Domain intelligence data not available*


---

## Compliance

### WCAG Compliance (A+ — 100/100)

*No testable criteria*


### Cookie Consent & Privacy (A+ — 100/100)

*privacy policy found*

- **[PASS]** Privacy policy link found
- **[PASS]** Terms of service link found
- **[INFO]** No cookie consent banner detected
- **[INFO]** This is an automated check, not legal advice — BeaverCheck detects technical indicators of consent management. This does not constitute a legal compliance assessment. Consult a privacy professional for GDPR/CCPA compliance.

### Consent UX Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*No consent-UX depth issues detected*

- **[PASS]** No consent-UX depth issues detected

### Tracker Inventory (A+ — 100/100)

*No known trackers detected on this page*

- **[PASS]** No known trackers detected on this page

### Language & i18n (A — 90/100)

*Lang attribute present*

- **[PASS]** <html lang> attribute is present
- **[PASS]** <html lang> value is valid
- **[INFO]** No Content-Language HTTP header
- **[INFO]** Language signals are inconsistent — The <html lang> attribute and Content-Language header should agree.

### Hreflang Configuration (A+ — 100/100)

*All 11 hreflang tag(s) look correct*

- **[PASS]** All 11 hreflang tag(s) look correct

### Internationalization Extras (A+ — 100/100)

*No additional i18n signals detected*

- **[PASS]** No additional i18n signals detected

### Readability & Typography (A+ — 100/100)

*Font sizes and tap targets checked*


### Viewport Configuration (A+ — 100/100)

*Viewport properly configured*

- **[PASS]** Viewport meta tag is present
- **[PASS]** width=device-width is set
- **[PASS]** User zooming is allowed

### Accessibility Statement (B — 70/100)

*No accessibility statement detected*

- **[WARNING]** No accessibility statement detected — Sites are increasingly expected to publish an accessibility statement. Required by EU Web Accessibility Directive 2016/2102 for public-sector bodies; recommended best practice elsewhere. Common URLs: /accessibility, /accessibility-statement, /a11y. Detection is by link URL and anchor text, in a limited set of languages, so this is an unconfirmed absence.

### GDPR Article 13 Disclosures (F — 25/100)

*0 / 8 Art. 13 categories matched in homepage body*

- **[WARNING]** GDPR Article 13 disclosure coverage: 0 / 8 categories — Scanned the homepage body text AND the linked /privacy page for GDPR Article 13 disclosures. Matched 0 of 8 categories: . Missing: Data Protection Officer contact (where applicable), Data retention period, Data subject rights (access, erasure, rectification, etc.), Identity / contact details of the data controller, International data transfers, Legal basis for processing, Recipients of personal data, Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Note: only the FIRST same-origin privacy-policy link is followed; deeper sub-pages (e.g. /legal/data-subject-rights) are not fetched.

### Third-Party Trackers (A+ — 95/100)

*1 trackers detected*

- **[INFO]** 1 third-party trackers detected — Found 0 analytics, 0 advertising, 0 marketing, 1 tag manager, 0 session-replay, 0 heatmap trackers.

### Cookie & Tracker Inventory (A+ — 100/100)

*0 cookies · 1 trackers · 0 pre-consent*

- **[INFO]** 1 third-party tracker(s) detected on page

### Tracking Pixel Inventory (A+ — 100/100)

*No tracking pixels detected*

- **[PASS]** No tracking pixels detected

### Browser Fingerprinting (A+ — 100/100)

*No browser-fingerprinting libraries detected*

- **[PASS]** No browser-fingerprinting libraries detected

### Cross-Site Cookies (SameSite=None) (A+ — 100/100)

*No cookies on the page*

- **[PASS]** No cookies set on the page response

### Beacon Tracking (sendBeacon) (A+ — 100/100)

*No navigator.sendBeacon usage detected in inline scripts*

- **[PASS]** No navigator.sendBeacon usage detected in inline scripts

---

## Legal

### Legal Page Ecosystem (C — 60/100)

*2 of 7 expected legal pages detected*

- **[PASS]** Privacy Policy detected — Found at /de/meta/navigations/footer/datenschutz, linked from footer.
- **[PASS]** Terms of Service detected — Found at /de/meta/navigations/footer/impressum, linked from footer.
- **[INFO]** Cookie Policy not detected — No link matching common Cookie Policy URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Cookie Policy, especially those collecting user data.
- **[INFO]** Accessibility Statement not detected — No link matching common Accessibility Statement URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Accessibility Statement, especially those collecting user data.
- **[INFO]** DMCA / Copyright Notice not detected — No link matching common DMCA / Copyright Notice URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a DMCA / Copyright Notice, especially those collecting user data.
- **[INFO]** Refund / Returns Policy not detected — No link matching common Refund / Returns Policy URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Refund / Returns Policy, especially those collecting user data.
- **[INFO]** Acceptable Use Policy not detected — No link matching common Acceptable Use Policy URL patterns or link text was found. Most websites are expected to have a Acceptable Use Policy, especially those collecting user data.

### Copyright Notice (A+ — 100/100)

*© 2026 Rheinmetall AG Impressum Datenschutz Datenschutz B*

- **[PASS]** Copyright notice is up to date — Copyright notice is up to date: © 2026 Rheinmetall AG Impressum Datenschutz Datenschutz B
- **[PASS]** Copyright holder: Rheinmetall AG Impressum Datenschutz Datenschutz B

### Regulatory Indicators

*1 regulatory indicator(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** This is a technical scan, not a legal assessment — BeaverCheck detects technical indicators that may suggest regulatory relevance. This is not a compliance audit and should not be relied upon for legal decisions. Consult qualified legal counsel for compliance assessments.
- **[INFO]** GDPR indicators detected (strong confidence) — Indicators suggesting GDPR may be relevant: European TLD detected: .de; Privacy policy page found. EU General Data Protection Regulation — governs collection and processing of personal data of EU residents.

### Third-Party Data Sharing

*1 third-party service(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** Data inventory for transparency purposes — This inventory identifies third-party services that receive data from your site visitors. Under regulations like GDPR (Article 30), maintaining records of data processing activities is commonly considered a best practice. This automated scan provides a starting point — it may not capture all data flows.
- **[INFO]** 1 third-party services across 1 categories — 1 third-party services detected across 1 categories: Tag Management (1). Each of these services receives some user data from your site visitors.
- **[INFO]** Google Tag Manager (Tag Management) — Detected via script URL. Typically collects: Orchestrates other tracking scripts, Page views. Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Data Processing Agreement available.

### Compliance Badges (C — 55/100)

*0 compliance badge(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** No compliance badges detected — No recognized compliance certification badges or seals were found. This is common — many sites do not display compliance badges.

---

## Availability

### CDN & Delivery (C — 65/100)

*Assets on Akamai (host www.rheinmetall.com, 26 assets); document served directly from origin*

- **[WARNING]** Document not behind existing CDN (Akamai serves the assets) — The page's subresources are delivered by Akamai (www.rheinmetall.com, 26 assets), but the HTML document itself comes straight from the origin. Routing the document through the CDN already in use is the cheapest latency win available here -- the provider relationship, the certificate and the config already exist. A short edge TTL with stale-while-revalidate suits HTML that changes often; if the response is genuinely per-user, edge TLS termination alone still removes a full round trip from every visitor's first byte.
- **[PASS]** Assets on Akamai: www.rheinmetall.com (assets: 26)
- **[PASS]** Assets on Bunny CDN: web.eu1.cmp.usercentrics.eu (assets: 8)

### HTTP Caching (B — 70/100)

*no-cache*

- **[PASS]** Cache-Control header is set
- **[INFO]** No ETag or Last-Modified header — Conditional requests (304 Not Modified) are not possible without validators.

### Operational Status Page (B — 80/100)

*No status page link detected*

- **[INFO]** No operational status page link detected — Status pages communicate planned maintenance and incidents to users -- a hallmark of operationally-mature services. Most SaaS teams publish one via Atlassian Statuspage, Instatus, BetterUptime, or a self-hosted Cachet. Smaller sites legitimately don't need one; flagged as Info, not a failure.

### Transport Security (A — 90/100)

*HTTP/3, HSTS, and TLS version analysis*

- **[INFO]** HTTP/3 (QUIC) not advertised — HTTP/3 eliminates head-of-line blocking. If your CDN supports it, consider enabling it.
- **[PASS]** HSTS enabled (includeSubDomains, preload)
- **[PASS]** HSTS preload enabled

### Health Check Endpoint (A+ — 100/100)

*Health endpoint at http://www.rheinmetall.ch/health (HTTP 200)*

- **[PASS]** Public health endpoint at http://www.rheinmetall.ch/health

### CDN Cache Observability (B — 85/100)

*No CDN cache-status headers in the response*

- **[INFO]** No CDN cache-status headers in the response — Without an X-Cache / CF-Cache-Status / X-Vercel-Cache / Age header, you can't tell from outside whether a request hit the cache or went to origin. Operationally important: enables debugging stale-content reports and verifying cache rules. Most managed CDN platforms emit at least one of these by default; absence often means the platform's diagnostic headers are stripped at an upstream proxy.

---

## Accessibility

### Landmark Structure (B — 75/100)

*4 landmarks*

- **[PASS]** <main> landmark present
- **[WARNING]** No <nav> landmark found
- **[WARNING]** Skip navigation link is missing (WCAG 2.4.1) — Add a skip link as the first focusable element so keyboard users can bypass repeated navigation.

### Heading Hierarchy (A+ — 100/100)

*6 headings*

- **[PASS]** Single H1 present

### Heading Text Quality (A+ — 100/100)

*All 6 heading(s) have substantive, well-formed text*

- **[PASS]** Heading text quality is clean -- no placeholder, length, or styling issues

### Alt Text Quality (A+ — 100/100)

*All 26 images OK*

- **[PASS]** 26 image(s) with good alt text

### Form Accessibility (A+ — 100/100)

*All 1 controls labeled*

- **[PASS]** 1 control(s) properly labeled

### Link & Button Quality (A — 88/100)

*43 links, 5 buttons — all OK*

- **[WARNING]** 11 link(s) open in new tab without warning — Add '(opens in new tab)' to link text or aria-label.
- **[PASS]** 32 link(s) with descriptive text

### Form Input Types (A+ — 95/100)

*1 input(s) using type=text where a specific type would help*

- **[INFO]** Input "search-toggle" should use type="search" (currently type="text") — Field name "search-toggle" suggests type="search". Wrong type loses mobile keyboard hints, browser autofill, and free format validation. Change to <input type="search">.

### Form Input Quality (A+ — 100/100)

*1 form control(s) checked, no input-semantic issues*

- **[PASS]** All form input semantics look correct

### Mobile Keyboard & Autofill (A+ — 100/100)

*No autofill-eligible form controls*

- **[PASS]** No autofill-eligible form controls (no name/email/tel/address fields)

### Document Language (A+ — 100/100)

*Lang attribute set to "de"*

- **[PASS]** <html lang="de"> is set and valid

### Tabindex Anti-Patterns (A+ — 95/100)

*0 positive, 1 -1-on-focusable*

- **[INFO]** tabindex="-1" on naturally-focusable <button> — tabindex="-1" removes an element from the keyboard tab order. Naturally-focusable elements (links, buttons, form controls) become unreachable for keyboard users. (Common false-positive: hidden honeypot fields. Verify the element is genuinely interactive before removing the tabindex.)

### Iframe Accessibility (A — 90/100)

*1/1 iframe(s) missing title; 0 placeholder(s)*

- **[WARNING]** <iframe> missing title attribute (src="https://web.cmp.usercentrics.eu/cdcs/v/1.0.0/index.html") — WCAG 4.1.2: iframes need a title attribute so screen readers can announce what's embedded. Without one, the announcement is just "iframe" -- the user has no way to decide whether to enter or skip.

### Tap Target Adequacy (A+ — 100/100)

*All tap targets meet WCAG 2.5.5/2.5.8 sizing*

- **[PASS]** All tap targets meet WCAG 2.5.5 (44x44px) sizing

### Mobile-Readable Font Sizes (A+ — 100/100)

*All 105 visible text node(s) render at >= 12 CSS pixels*

- **[PASS]** All text uses legible mobile font sizes (>= 12 CSS px)

---

## UX

### 404 Error Page (F — 20/100)

*Soft 404 detected*

- **[CRITICAL]** Soft 404: server returns HTTP 200 for non-existent pages — The server returns HTTP 200 for a path that does not exist. Search engines will index these pages, diluting your real content. Configure your server to return a proper 404 status code for missing pages.

### Favicon & Branding (C — 55/100)

*3 icon(s) detected*

- **[PASS]** favicon.ico present at site root
- **[PASS]** HTML icon links detected
- **[INFO]** No apple-touch-icon detected — iOS devices use this when users add your site to their home screen. Add <link rel='apple-touch-icon' sizes='180x180' href='/apple-touch-icon.png'>.
- **[PASS]** Multiple icon sizes detected

### Web Manifest (F — 30/100)

*Invalid JSON*

- **[WARNING]** Manifest contains invalid JSON — Manifest at http://www.rheinmetall.ch/manifest.json contains invalid JSON. Browsers cannot parse it.

### PWA Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*No PWA depth issues detected*

- **[PASS]** No PWA depth issues detected

### Dark Mode Support (D — 40/100)

*No dark mode signals*

- **[INFO]** No dark mode signals detected — Consider adding CSS with @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) and <meta name='color-scheme' content='light dark'>.
- **[INFO]** Detection limited to meta tags and inline styles — External CSS files may contain prefers-color-scheme rules not visible to this scan.

### Print Stylesheet (D — 40/100)

*No print styles*

- **[INFO]** No print-specific styles detected — When users print this page, they get the screen layout including navigation and non-essential elements. Add @media print rules to hide navigation and optimize layout for paper.

### Navigation UX (F — 0/100)

*No navigation patterns*

- **[INFO]** No breadcrumbs, search, or skip link detected — These navigation aids help users orient themselves and find content efficiently, especially on large sites.

### Mobile UX Depth (A+ — 97/100)

*1 mobile-depth signal(s) detected*

- **[INFO]** No `<meta name="theme-color">` -- browser chrome falls back to default — Without `theme-color`, Android Chrome's status bar and iOS Safari's toolbar fall back to a generic gray. Adding a single hex color in `<meta name="theme-color" content="#0066cc">` tints them to your brand color across all mobile browsers.

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## SEO

### Canonical URL (B — 80/100)

*Minor issues*

- **[WARNING]** No canonical tag found — Search engines will determine the canonical URL themselves, which may cause duplicate content issues.

### Meta Tags (A — 90/100)

*Title: 69 chars*

- **[PASS]** Page title is set
- **[INFO]** Title is 69 characters — may be truncated in search results
- **[INFO]** Meta description is 185 characters — truncated on mobile (~160 char limit)
- **[INFO]** Title and H1 have very different wording — Alignment helps users confirm they've reached the right page.

### Title Style Depth (A+ — 100/100)

*Title style is clean -- consistent separator, no stale year, no keyword stuffing*

- **[PASS]** Title style is clean

### Content Depth (C — 65/100)

*473 words, Very Difficult*

- **[PASS]** Page has 473 words of content
- **[INFO]** Text-to-HTML ratio is 1% — Very low ratio suggests heavy framework overhead or boilerplate.
- **[INFO]** Reading level: Very Difficult (grade 14)

### Internal Links (A+ — 100/100)

*33 internal, 10 external*

- **[PASS]** 33 internal links (77%)
- **[PASS]** 100% of links use descriptive anchor text
- **[INFO]** 33 internal / 10 external links

### Image SEO (A+ — 100/100)

*26 images, 26 descriptive filenames*

- **[PASS]** All images have descriptive filenames

### Hreflang

*0 hreflang tags*


### Hreflang URL Quality (A+ — 100/100)

*No hreflang tags on the page*

- **[PASS]** No hreflang tags on the page

### Hreflang Completeness (A+ — 100/100)

*No hreflang tags on this page -- check is N/A (single-language site or unannotated)*

- **[PASS]** No hreflang tags found -- completeness check is N/A

### Sitemap Freshness (C — 70/100)

*Sitemap exists but no <lastmod> entries*

- **[INFO]** Sitemap has no <lastmod> entries — Without lastmod, Google can't tell which URLs have changed since the last crawl -- it falls back to crawling everything periodically. Adding lastmod (date or ISO 8601 timestamp) on each <url> entry signals freshness so the crawler prioritizes recently-modified pages.

### Sitemap × Robots Consistency (A+ — 100/100)

*No sitemap-vs-robots conflicts detected*

- **[PASS]** Sitemap URLs are not blocked by robots.txt

### Sitemap Hygiene (B — 75/100)

*1 hygiene issue(s) on a 0-URL sitemap*

- **[WARNING]** Sitemap is empty -- 0 URLs listed — The sitemap file is reachable and parses as valid XML, but contains no `<url>` entries. Common causes: a templated sitemap that didn't iterate the URL set during build, a static placeholder shipped to production, or a CMS that lost its URL index. Search engines fetch and discard empty sitemaps.

### Markup Quality (A — 85/100)

*2 markup-quality issue(s) detected*

- **[WARNING]** No `<meta charset>` declaration in HTML — The page has no `<meta charset="...">` tag. Browsers fall back to a default encoding (typically UTF-8 in modern browsers, but not guaranteed). Add `<meta charset="utf-8">` as the first child of `<head>` to make the encoding explicit.
- **[INFO]** 2 redundant ARIA role attribute(s) on native semantic element(s) — The W3C "ARIA in HTML" spec calls this its first rule: don't use ARIA when a native HTML element already conveys the semantics. `<button role="button">`, `<a href role="link">`, `<nav role="navigation">`, `<main role="main">` -- the role attribute either does nothing or shadows the native semantic, occasionally breaking assistive-tech behaviors. Remove the redundant role.

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## Sustainability

### CO2 Per Page Load (A — 85/100)

*0.39g CO2 per view*

- **[PASS]** 0.39g CO2 per page view — This page transfers 1.4 MB, producing an estimated 0.39g of CO2 per visit using the Sustainable Web Design model (v4). Breakdown: data center 0.07g, network 0.07g, end-user device 0.25g.
- **[INFO]** At 10,000 monthly views: 46.6 kg CO2/year — With 10,000 page views per month, this page would generate approximately 46.6 kg of CO2 annually — equivalent to charging 5822 smartphones.

### Green Hosting (D — 50/100)

*Unknown*

- **[INFO]** Hosting provider could not be identified — Without knowing the provider, we cannot determine their energy sourcing. Check with your hosting provider about their renewable energy commitments.
- **[INFO]** Green hosting status based on known provider commitments — Green hosting detection uses a curated database of provider renewable energy commitments. This is not a real-time verification. For authoritative checks, visit thegreenwebfoundation.org.

### Repeat Visit Weight (A+ — 100/100)

*94% cached*

- **[PASS]** 94% reduction on repeat visits — Returning visitors download only 84 KB (vs 1403 KB first visit). 64 of 66 resources are served from browser cache, saving 0.36g CO2 per repeat visit.
- **[INFO]** Repeat visit: 0.02g CO2 (first visit: 0.39g)

### Carbon Budget (A — 85/100)

*28th percentile*

- **[PASS]** 0.39g CO2 — below the sustainability target of 0.50g — Cleaner than an estimated 72% of websites analyzed. This page meets the Web Sustainability Guidelines target.
- **[INFO]** Estimated 28th percentile — Compared to: top 10% = 0.20g, target = 0.50g, median = 0.60g per page view.

### Transfer Efficiency (A+ — 100/100)

*92% efficient*

- **[PASS]** Transfer efficiency: 92% — Only 107 KB of potential savings identified. Your page is well-optimized for size.

### Web Font Weight Variants (B — 90/100)

*No detectable Google Fonts weights*

- **[INFO]** No detectable Google Fonts weights — The analyzer detects font weights via Google Fonts URL parameters (~70% of font-using sites). Self-hosted fonts and non-Google CDN fonts aren't visible to URL-based detection. If you self-host fonts, manually audit how many @font-face weights you ship -- 2-3 weights per family is typically enough; 5+ is usually unused payload.

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