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Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
83
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
4
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Santa Clara, United States
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 4 REVIEW
C
IPv6 Readiness
Action
No IPv6 support
REVIEW
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.
No IPv6 Support
About 40% of internet users have IPv6. Consider adding AAAA records.

IPv6 support is increasingly important for global accessibility. About 40% of internet users have IPv6 connectivity.

Why this matters

No AAAA records — same impact as 'no IPv6 (AAAA) records'; IPv6-preferring clients pay extra latency falling back to IPv4.

Source: Google IPv6 stats

B
Crawlability
robots.txt present, no sitemap
REVIEW
robots.txt present, no sitemap
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 116 bytes
Info::
No sitemap.xml found
A sitemap helps search engines discover and index your pages more efficiently.
Info::
robots.txt does not reference a sitemap
Add a 'Sitemap:' directive to robots.txt so search engines can discover your sitemap.

A sitemap helps search engines discover and index your pages more efficiently.

Why this matters

No sitemap.xml — Google relies on crawl-graph discovery alone, slowing indexing of deep or fresh URLs.

Learn more

A sitemap accelerates Google's discovery of new and updated content. Most CMSes auto-generate one; static-site frameworks need a build-step plugin. Reference it from robots.txt and submit in Search Console to confirm Google can fetch it.

Source: sitemaps.org / Google Search Central

Add a 'Sitemap:' directive to robots.txt so search engines can discover your sitemap.

Why this matters

robots.txt omits Sitemap: directive — crawlers must fetch /sitemap.xml by convention; reliable but missing the explicit hint.

Source: sitemaps.org

robots.txt 200 OK
Size 116 B Sitemaps referenced 0 User-agents * Blocking No — crawling allowed
User-agent: *
Disallow: /_resources/includes/
Disallow: /_resources/ou/
# Sitemap: https://www.sdsu.edu/sitemap.xml

sitemap.xml No sitemap found

No sitemap found

Adding a sitemap helps search engines discover your pages.

B
URL Variants
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
REVIEW
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
Critical::
Both www and non-www versions serve content
Got: Both variants return 200 Expected: One variant 301-redirects to the other
Info::
HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

200https://www.sdsu.edu/
200https://sdsu.edu/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://sdsu.edu/ https://sdsu.edu/

Consistent

B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
324 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

324
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Enable HSTS: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
  • Enable DNSSEC on your domain for DNS spoofing protection
  • Enable OCSP stapling on your TLS server to remove a CA roundtrip and protect user privacy
A+
DNS Records
1 A records, 83 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 83 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 104.20.12.66
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
2 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns02.sdsu.edu, ns01.sdsu.edu
Info::
2 mail exchanger(s) configured
Info::
CAA records not checked
CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.
Info::
SPF record present in TXT
Info::
DNS resolution time: 83 ms
Got: 83 ms
A104.20.12.66
AAAA
CNAME
NSns02.sdsu.edu, ns01.sdsu.edu
MX
10 mxb-009b9c01.gslb.pphosted.com
10 mxa-009b9c01.gslb.pphosted.com
TXT
dell-technologies-domain-verification=sdsu.edu_99e6fd3a-69c3-4450-8288-4892d5a7d...
jamf-site-verification=1k6X_gIWkA1rgGo0T7mbXQ
atlassian-domain-verification=QHMkCJr62sGhGLoykU9d7D8hciIv2mPBdrZhG1qx1et9jXtKfe...
brevo-code:b1414e0a234265a2faa294058248ae06
openai-domain-verification=dv-DmYzqJwQSQ98fp47vrgmDrg6
teamviewer-sso-verification=8e2fd763b26842fbaa077746436dcb2e
read-ai-verification = 0199e52c-d423-712b-8503-05f8291baa17
autodesk-domain-verification=BNV4av0GRPwL8bOnmSbw
SPF v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf2.sdsu.edu include:_spf3.sdsu.edu inc...
00DF00000007EVl=1TBPL00000000Mb
adobe-sign-verification=f90b78813ea85a56a64f9271be170251
adobe-idp-site-verification=7ca634bd-c1d9-49d3-8bcc-1e5f6186040c
MS=ms42297913
MS=ms25063800
pardot238872=1f5b286cc8ef1eec02146f0c3e75bbb496908a00094ac2a87fdc83cfdf795085
smartsheet-site-validation=SCVPHKy1F38uD2zjMJDpJxWBry1VhoPG
facebook-domain-verification=hflgnpr16afby8q6m8p5m0et5wyfke
SFMC-COU69nqBETcp5Bnzw1Rijiv_lFBBlouF9B_Df6eW
pardot886933=7d0a9bfa98bc738378206707cb0710bc9cf6bf5b44b245d86a8e2cfd7afffcf3
apple-domain-verification=fzMg6Q3joqoCeUdA
96150E68E4A243B2A02EA3D554D7AF3470F1533BFA0A006B5656E55D00FCCC03
apple-domain-verification=3jWSoDf3jpCe5iuw
google-site-verification=DIYuNpHVWeVmthO3EOB4lgi0CgQBC6WJ-OoeVjbGkFc
e2ma-verification=f7j3
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 83 ms

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

Why this matters

Single A record means a single point of failure — if that IP goes down, your site is unreachable until DNS TTL expires.

Learn more

Add multiple A records for round-robin failover, or use a managed DNS provider with health-checked failover (Route 53, Cloudflare, NS1). Short TTL (60-300s) lets clients recover faster on outages.

Source: SRE practice / DNS architecture

CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.

Why this matters

Informational: CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) records weren't checked in this scan.

A
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 181 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 181 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://sdsu.edu → https://www.sdsu.edu/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://sdsu.edu

78 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.sdsu.edu/

103 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://sdsu.edu30178 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare
2https://www.sdsu.edu/200103 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Domain Intelligence
sdsu.edu — 40 years, 4 months old, hosted on Cloudflare
PASS
sdsu.edu — 40 years, 4 months old, hosted on Cloudflare
Info::
Domain registered until Jul 31, 2026 (3 months remaining)
Info::
Hosting: Cloudflare
Got: AS13335
Domain expiry

47 days

July 31, 2026

SSL certificate

324 days

Issued by Internet2

Domain age

40 years, 4 months

Registered July 10, 1986

DNSSEC

Status unknown

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Cloudflare

ASN AS13335

104.20.12.66

Registrar

Registrar unknown

Lock status unknown 2 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Recommended actions
  • Renew the domain or enable auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiry
Registrar
Created July 10, 1986 (40 years, 4 months ago)
Expires July 31, 2026 (3 months)
Last Updated January 21, 2026
Name Servers ns02.sdsu.edu, ns01.sdsu.edu
Registrant San Diego State University
Hosting
IP Address 104.20.12.66
ASN AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)
Provider Cloudflare
Data source: whois (0.4s)
A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 80 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
28 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
3 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
13 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
80 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
80 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 28 ms TCP Connect 3 ms TLS Handshake 13 ms Server Processing 35 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
A
CDN & Delivery
Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)
PASS
Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)
Info::
Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: SJC)
Got: cf-ray: 9f002e1a1a76939b-SJC
Info::
CDN cache status: DYNAMIC
CDN Detected: Cloudflare
Provider Cloudflare Cache Status DYNAMIC Evidence cf-ray: 9f002e1a1a76939b-SJC
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