diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0cd3f65..ebf34c7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ RSYNCFLAGS_EXTRA ?=
 # compression gets slow for extreme levels like the old "70109"
 ECT_LEVEL=9
 
-VNU ?= vnu
-
 csv/webrings.csv:
 	sh scripts/populate-webrings.sh
 
@@ -60,7 +58,7 @@ validate-json:
 
 .PHONY: validate-html
 validate-html:
-	$(VNU) --stdout --format json --skip-non-html --also-check-svg $(OUTPUT_DIR) | sh scripts/filter-vnu.sh
+	sh scripts/vnu.sh $(OUTPUT_DIR)
 
 .PHONY: htmlproofer
 htmlproofer:
diff --git a/linter-configs/vnu_filter.jq b/linter-configs/vnu_filter.jq
index 95cc119..1262fbc 100644
--- a/linter-configs/vnu_filter.jq
+++ b/linter-configs/vnu_filter.jq
@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@
 			( # see https://github.com/w3c/css-validator/issues/370
 				.message == "CSS: “contain”: “inline-size” is not a “contain” value."
 			)
-			or
-			( # the search page has raw templates, let those slide. I validate the final dynamic search page manually.
-				.url | test ("/search/index.")
-			)
 		) | not
 	)
 ) | del(..|select(. == [])) | del(..|select(. == {})) | select(. != null)
diff --git a/scripts/vnu.sh b/scripts/vnu.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c330db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/vnu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e -u
+pwd="$(dirname "$0")"
+output_dir="$1"
+
+files_to_analyze() {
+	find "$output_dir" -type f -name '*.html' -o -name '*.svg' \
+		| grep -Ev '(bimi\.svg|search/index\.x?html)$'
+}
+
+# we skip the BIMI icon (VNU can't handle SVG 1.2) and the search page (it has raw templates).
+vnu \
+	--stdout \
+	--format json \
+	--also-check-svg \
+	$(files_to_analyze) \
+	| sh "$pwd/filter-vnu.sh"