Infrastructure - https://usmagazine.com BeaverCheck Audit

D

CDN & Delivery

Action

No CDN detected

FIX

No CDN detected

A CDN can significantly improve load times for users around the world by caching content at edge nodes closer to them.

No CDN detected

Consider using a CDN to improve global delivery speed and reduce origin load.

B

Redirect Chain

1 redirect(s), 1007 ms total

REVIEW

1 redirect(s), 1007 ms total

Single redirect

Got: https://usmagazine.com → https://www.usmagazine.com/ (301)

WWW normalization redirect

Redirect overhead: 1007 ms total

Got: 1007 ms

https://usmagazine.com

9 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.usmagazine.com/

998 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://usmagazine.com	301	9 ms	HTTP/1.1	nginx
2	https://www.usmagazine.com/	200	998 ms	HTTP/1.1	nginx

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

C

IPv6 Readiness

Action

No IPv6 support

REVIEW

No IPv6 support

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

URL Variants

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

REVIEW

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

Both www and non-www versions serve content

Got: Both variants return 200 Expected: One variant 301-redirects to the other

HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

200https://www.usmagazine.com/

200https://usmagazine.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://usmagazine.com/ → https://usmagazine.com/

Consistent

B

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

61 days until leaf cert expires — 5 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

61

days left

0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

Extend HSTS max-age to at least 31536000 (1 year) to meet the preload list criteria
Add includeSubDomains to the HSTS directive
Add the preload directive and submit to hstspreload.org once max-age + includeSubDomains are in place
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, 21 ms lookup

PASS

1 A records, 21 ms lookup

Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 192.0.66.2

Single A record — no DNS redundancy

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

No IPv6 (AAAA) records

4 nameserver(s) configured

Got: ns-cloud-c3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c4.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c1.googledomains.com

3 mail exchanger(s) configured

CAA records not checked

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

SPF record present in TXT

DNS resolution time: 21 ms

Got: 21 ms

A	192.0.66.2
AAAA	—
CNAME	—
NS	ns-cloud-c3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c4.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c1.googledomains.com
MX	1 smtp.google.com 10 mxb-002c4802.gslb.pphosted.com 10 mxa-002c4802.gslb.pphosted.com
TXT	google-site-verification=WZENd1HSuZhnSHjwrBiCnZKK6en_38dfVtFKlctYBAA google-gws-recovery-domain-verification=62112826 extensis-domain-verification=ae198b30-0c6e-4aa2-b04d-c557592d635d MS=ms30344464 knowbe4-site-verification=d6e44116a749b1f61f1d7bc9f3e4b677 fastly-domain-delegation-f8yuPs8cf7wMk5A-20260218 SPF v=spf1 ip4:136.147.32.0/19 ip4:184.173.105.112 include:spf-002c4802.pphosted.com... google-site-verification=Hl0nCipEfZofQQQVJSBGPH1DSk68E5bYhV_AcjiNer4 airtable-verification=8d61ad430129ac005ae7c6131443674c google-site-verification=xxU5nYGViJWQQ96p7q54WAsL_5nwczy7wMI8FS4LvVo facebook-domain-verification=3c6qqpxki3aqe2ibc5nqvq230f7kqf ahrefs-site-verification_af5e713c30770fe70c565f5fd08013dfbdc02aacd27d742e71f0d02... google-site-verification=rPS8gDbhbdn2qS3h2GuZ2Y2bnvfvgTs0120FPEsKz4M
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 21 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+

Crawlability

robots.txt present, sitemap with 358 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 358 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 4996 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 358 entries

Sitemap index with 358 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 4996 B Sitemaps referenced 9 User-agents Webzio-Extended, FirecrawlAgent, MAZBot, Thinkbot, WRTNBot, Brightbot 1.0, ChatGPT, iaskspider/2.0, Meta-ExternalFetcher, TaraGroup Intelligent Bot, cohere-training-data-crawler, img2dataset, Jetslide, KunatoCrawler, MojeekBot, SBIntuitionsBot, yacybot, coccocbot-web, Bytespider, EasouSpider, Poseidon Research Crawler, SeekportBot, Verity, yacy, ia_archiver-web.archive.org, MistralAI-User/1.0, ChatGLM-Spider, omgili, ia_archiver, magpie-crawler, YouBot, Genieo, Kangaroo Bot, WebVac, archive.org_bot, crawler4j, Datenbank Crawler, MauiBot, A6-Indexer, Andibot, Barkrowler, bigsur.ai, Cotoyogi, FacebookBot, R6_CommentReader, AddSearchBot, AspiegelBot, NewsNow, PetalBot, Primalbot, SeekrBot, omgilibot, Diffbot, ICC-Crawler, MyCentralAIScraperBot, Scrapy, Spinn3r, Verity/1.1, WebZip, *, aiHitBot, anthropic-aiBytespider, news-please, NovaAct, SeznamHomepageCrawler, Sidetrade indexer bot, BLP_bbot, cohere-ai, VelenPublicWebCrawler, Buck, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, LivelapBot, MistralAI-User, QuillBot, quillbot.com, Crawlspace, Echobot Bot, EchoboxBot, ecoResearch, Meta-ExternalAgent, Seekr, SeznamBot, Omgilibot, https://hada.news, JenkersBot, Mojeek, PanguBot, Timpibot, ViennaTinyBot Blocking No — crawling allowed

# Us Weekly content is made available for your personal, non-commercial
# use subject to our Terms of Service here:
# https://www.mcclatchy.com/terms-of-service
# Use of any device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the content
# using automated means is prohibited without prior written permission from
# Us Weekly. Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining activities
# (2) the development of any software, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI),
# and/or large language models (LLMs);
# (3) creating or providing archived or cached data sets containing our content to others; and/or
# (4) any commercial purposes.

# Sitemap archive
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/sitemap.xml

# Video Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/feed/video-sitemap/
# Gallery Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/gallery-sitemap.xml
# Google News Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/feed/google-news-sitemap/
# Authors Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/authors-sitemap.xml
# Сelebrity Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-sitemap.xml
# Spanish
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/espanol-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/espanol-gallery-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.usmagazine.com/espanol-google-news-sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?share=
Disallow: /*/dick-van-dyke/celebrities/
Disallow: /*/forever21.com/
Disallow: /sso-dashboard.js
Disallow: /article-preview/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /_static/*.js

User-agent: A6-Indexer
Disallow: /

User-agent: AddSearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: aiHitBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Andibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-aiBytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: AspiegelBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Barkrowler
Disallow: /

User-agent: bigsur.ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLP_bbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Buck
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: coccocbot-web
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: crawler4j
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawlspace
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EasouSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Echobot Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ecoResearch
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Genieo
Disallow: /

User-agent: https://hada.news
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
Disallow: /

User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

User-agent: JenkersBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Jetslide
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: KunatoCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: LivelapBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MAZBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mojeek
Disallow: /

User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: NovaAct
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Primalbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: QuillBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: quillbot.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: R6_CommentReader
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Seekr
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Spinn3r
Disallow: /

User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Thinkbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Verity
Disallow: /

User-agent: Verity/1.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: ViennaTinyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebVac
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZip
Disallow: /

User-agent: WRTNBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: yacy
Disallow: /

User-agent: yacybot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

# ---------------------------
# END YOAST BLOCK

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 358 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A+

Domain Intelligence

usmagazine.com — via GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, 29 years, 6 months old, hosted on WordPress.com (Automattic)

PASS

usmagazine.com — via GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, 29 years, 6 months old, hosted on WordPress.com (Automattic)

Domain registered until Mar 21, 2028 (1 years, 11 months remaining)

DNSSEC is not enabled

DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it.

Registrar: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC

Registrar lock is NOT enabled

The domain can be transferred without an unlock step. Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) in your registrar's control panel to protect against unauthorized or accidental transfers.

Hosting: WordPress.com (Automattic)

Got: AS2635

Domain expiry

611 days

March 21, 2028

SSL certificate

61 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

29 years, 6 months

Registered March 20, 1997

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

WordPress.com (Automattic)

ASN AS2635

192.0.66.2

Registrar

GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC

Unlocked 4 NS records

Expiry timeline

Today

+1 year

Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)

Recommended actions

Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers

Registrar GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC

Created March 20, 1997 (29 years, 6 months ago)

Expires March 21, 2028 (1 years, 11 months)

Last Updated September 19, 2025

Name Servers ns-cloud-c1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-c4.googledomains.com

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 192.0.66.2

ASN AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)

Provider WordPress.com (Automattic)

Data source: rdap (0.3s)

DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it.

Why this matters

Without DNSSEC, an attacker who can poison your DNS can hijack your domain — and SSL certs alone don't stop them.

Learn more ▾

DNSSEC adds cryptographic signatures to DNS records, preventing forged responses from poisoning resolver caches. Without it, an attacker who controls the network path can redirect your domain to a malicious server before any HTTPS handshake happens. Most modern registrars (Cloudflare, Google Domains, Route 53) enable it with one toggle.

Source: ICANN / RFC 4033

The domain can be transferred without an unlock step. Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) in your registrar's control panel to protect against unauthorized or accidental transfers.

Why this matters

Without registrar lock, an attacker who phishes your registrar credentials can transfer the domain in minutes — total brand hijack.

Learn more ▾

Registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited, clientDeleteProhibited) requires extra verification before any transfer/update/delete. Every major registrar offers it free. Combined with 2FA on your registrar account, it's the strongest defense against domain hijacking.

Source: ICANN / domain-security best practice

A+

HTTP Probe Timing

Total 140 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

PASS

DNS Lookup

7 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

4 ms

Time to First Byte

140 ms

Total Time

140 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 7 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 4 ms Server Processing 129 ms Content Transfer 0 ms