Skip to content
https://vanityfair.com

Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
93
GRADE
A
FIX
1
REVIEW
2
PASS
5
INFO
1
Probed from Amsterdam, Netherlands
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 2 REVIEW 1 FIX
D
CDN & Delivery
Action
No CDN detected
FIX
No CDN detected
Warning::
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
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.vanityfair.com/
200https://vanityfair.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://vanityfair.com/ → https://www.vanityfair.com/

Consistent

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

Certificate validity

214
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
2 A records, 10 ms lookup
PASS
2 A records, 10 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 52.223.6.210, 166.117.251.134
Info::
Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)
Got: 2600:9000:a707:a46c:560f:b721:9702:d75e, 2600:9000:a41b:ef95:eff:32b3:411c:f36c
Info::
4 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns-1116.awsdns-11.org, ns-1935.awsdns-49.co.uk, ns-28.awsdns-03.com, ns-836.awsdns-40.net
Info::
5 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: 10 ms
Got: 10 ms
A52.223.6.210, 166.117.251.134
AAAA2600:9000:a707:a46c:560f:b721:9702:d75e, 2600:9000:a41b:ef95:eff:32b3:411c:f36c
CNAME—
NSns-1116.awsdns-11.org, ns-1935.awsdns-49.co.uk, ns-28.awsdns-03.com, ns-836.awsdns-40.net
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
TXT
MS=ms20035910
ZOOM_verify_olNgEEXHT0KZdtzzxzgOqQ
adobe-idp-site-verification=c2108b9dbc0fc05ff0794006df1c41b6c945bd2c8a904bef754e...
atlassian-domain-verification=mYtQWl3namqmk5ikMKT48XVnS+XdjdbkLlkWMcNyvsddK2JDAi...
dhtft762z996j2z1xks67bfln92w4zvs
facebook-domain-verification=g9nful8i9w5e4zgeg0n38rd76hgebo
fastly-domain-delegation-grdt7uboiyaqqtgjenzi-789661-2024-07-19
google-site-verification=8O9Brv4ULZZkeupaII9XvbSJolDyvL8piXH9f3Qxog0
google-site-verification=I6xyx7HGo5tQZBhnpOea65NHo5hgsL0XAmfV-iTY1B4
google-site-verification=dvxayxuTtVcVSruxicy7Rc6LOEhI6KrTPnx9BzneZ_Q
google-site-verification=sMJZdPtIqn1RN3a5WmHV72O6F3Mdz5r2SNng8cn-HY8
google-site-verification=vHYgN0c-9z-z-a5Y_4T2B97wErGU5OT21G5sYZJTPfo
google-site-verification=x9eAjYJgVvtLRCjXWH1uAgRjsrNq7avAyRLnrSVQ794
SPF v=spf1 include:_u.vanityfair.com._spf.smart.ondmarc.com -all
zapier-domain-verification-challenge=d542be23-3f8a-4327-b0ef-995e956df8ad
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 10 ms

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), 150 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 150 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://vanityfair.com → https://www.vanityfair.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://vanityfair.com

86 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.vanityfair.com/

64 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://vanityfair.com30186 msHTTP/1.1nginx
2https://www.vanityfair.com/20064 msHTTP/1.1CloudFront

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
IPv6 Readiness
IPv6 reachable (1 ms)
PASS
IPv6 reachable (1 ms)
Info::
IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2600:9000:a707:a46c:560f:b721:9702:d75e, 2600:9000:a41b:ef95:eff:32b3:411c:f36c
Got: 1 ms connect
IPv6 Ready
AAAA Records 2600:9000:a707:a46c:560f:b721:9702:d75e, 2600:9000:a41b:ef95:eff:32b3:411c:f36c Connection Reachable (1 ms)
A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 60 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 60 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 2054 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 60 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 60 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 2054 B Sitemaps referenced 9 User-agents Webzio, ia_archiver-web.archive.org, meta-webindexer, meta-externalfetcher, Claude-SearchBot, Perplexity-User, ia_archiver, LinkedInBot, TikTokSpider, Google-InspectionTool, ClaudeBot, cohere-training-data-crawler, cohere-ai, Webzio-Extended, heritrix, Pinterestbot, Storebot-Google, PetalBot, archive.org_bot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Diffbot, MistralAI-User, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, GoogleOther, AmazonAdBot, Timpibot, *, FacebookExternalHit, Twitterbot, Google-Extended, Google-CloudVertexBot, PanguBot, Bytespider, DuckAssistBot, meta-externalagent, CCBot Blocking No — crawling allowed
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/tagpages-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/contributors-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/bundles-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/branded-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/feed/google-latest-news/sitemap-google-news
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/feed/rss
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/feed/oscars-feed/rss
Sitemap: https://www.vanityfair.com/feed/met-gala-feed/rss

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /*?*page
Allow: /*.xml?
Allow: /*.js
Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.ico
Allow: /verso/static
Allow: /*.svg
Allow: /*.png
Allow: /*.jpg
Allow: /*.jpeg
Allow: /*rss?
Allow: /*?id=
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /user-context
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /product/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /services.min.js
Disallow: /com.condenast/yv8

###
Allow: /v2/offers/vfa
Disallow: /journey/compiler/amp/iframe.html
Disallow: /*.pdf
Disallow: /api/search?page=
###

User-agent: FacebookExternalHit
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: Pinterestbot
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Storebot-Google
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Webzio
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: ia_archiver
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
User-agent: heritrix
Disallow: /
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 60 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 93 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
4 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
8 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
53 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
93 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
93 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 4 ms TCP Connect 8 ms TLS Handshake 53 ms Server Processing 28 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
Domain Intelligence
Domain intelligence data not available
INFO
Domain intelligence data not available

RDAP and WHOIS lookup both failed

All checks on this page are automated. Results are estimates - run targeted manual reviews when the score affects a release decision.

Send Feedback