Infrastructure
· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.BRedirect Chain2 redirect(s), 116 ms totalREVIEW
https://ign.com
4 ms · HTTP/1.1
https://www.ign.com/
50 ms · HTTP/1.1
https://fr.ign.com/
62 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL
| # | URL | Status | Time | Protocol | Server |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | https://ign.com | 302 | 4 ms | HTTP/1.1 | Varnish |
| 2 | https://www.ign.com/ | 302 | 50 ms | HTTP/1.1 | |
| 3 | https://fr.ign.com/ | 200 | 62 ms | HTTP/1.1 |
See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →
Each redirect adds latency. Try to minimize the chain to 1 hop.
Redirect chain — each hop adds latency; combine into one redirect where possible.
Source: Google Search Central / web.dev
If permanent, use 301 instead.
302 (Found) is for genuinely temporary redirects — if this redirect is permanent, switch to 301 to preserve SEO equity.
Learn more ▾ ▴
Search engines treat 302 as temporary, keeping the original URL indexed and not transferring full link equity to the destination. Use 301 (Moved Permanently) for permanent redirects (HTTP→HTTPS, www-vs-non-www, URL restructures).
Source: Google Search Central
CIPv6 ReadinessActionNo IPv6 supportREVIEW
IPv6 support is increasingly important for global accessibility. About 40% of internet users have IPv6 connectivity.
No AAAA records — same impact as 'no IPv6 (AAAA) records'; IPv6-preferring clients pay extra latency falling back to IPv4.
Source: Google IPv6 stats
BTLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations67 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to addressREVIEW
Certificate validity
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 Records4 A records, 78 ms lookupPASS
| A | 151.101.193.135, 151.101.1.135, 151.101.129.135, 151.101.65.135 |
| AAAA | — |
| CNAME | — |
| NS | ns-1639.awsdns-12.co.uk, ns-184.awsdns-23.com, ns-1421.awsdns-49.org, ns-865.awsdns-44.net |
| MX | 1 aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com |
| TXT | notion-domain-verification=yePqme4WWVPpTYgYOAIOR0w3CQ3MrtcQRxl3oeXoG7B MS=ms50363470 ZOOM_verify_GqtGRiAuyFwxt2e0Aw5qPd atlassian-domain-verification=QUsZX4LdPWTYZgx09JhShFot27EJnUl/5CyxXFsiGebXl2QD8F... anthropic-domain-verification-e3vss0=3cOByXqmpN4XRnvkzBQPC156x google-site-verification=y1UwSOvz0xwWkNqQ3OaHiji5H5TGCPnijvgUp5zywR8 stripe-verification=3593AA6971755BE668AACE816A1EE06C7146F3B4C359A32113394EB2FA46... tollbit-domain-verification=a92372177b6f4b247a8d84212bad20c2573a43eef1fe67586dac... _globalsign-domain-verification=VPemhDee0EKRXi0IPzeSUrn849jHevrjIaTeDYOTZ4 brave-ledger-verification=9edd3401888047b0f3e67ff5b91f6e42d05528a401278502b85cca... onetrust-domain-verification=2462dffbf64b4fbea15a057d21cba6e9 google-site-verification=ToPtMP-MoegJBf8rxWwG10WLPuAzf3HMQmZGry___BE SPF v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:spf_c.oraclecloud.c... workplace-domain-verification=86brBCdq4xovqRl6lgslTY9NhlTs3c fastly-domain-delegation-4113494f09f65bb5ec48f14d524ef258-00551329-20251109 shopify-verification-code=6TtoHWAOBoHYZAchulzjWKlr2xKUgC _globalsign-domain-verification=f-B_7ErtvSe_2e1SkhSsTab6DQA-AVd2vcvY3gqskQ _globalsign-domain-verification=n-kJTGwLshlTiyXFHlUrmuZBUmd02TKkgRt0H3jHw1 twilio-domain-verification=f1f40fdf77455463b5d72908f5262836 google-site-verification=I1qx4WK6bOnMKV0vm_HBn7Ip9VNwFt6wHpIbUYzZ1r4 _globalsign-domain-verification=mGZXdzAu0fntEqfD9786zQszYXn9loQ6fpDuWN2sjU docker-verification=6029222b-f663-4d09-ac18-3311e84c3ac6 asv=e495da755c0dd3bd45f83c1d25432aff google-site-verification=NiNUk5UMvvACoV17Yr9w_RuO0y1Sp6d8XrXT56Qi_Cc docusign=b8587a0a-d516-45e7-8429-5a1ac93a3f3a apple-domain-verification=HTgpmeGWcrcvgw4w knowbe4-site-verification=f8a0eecde40ecb172ead956570d9179c adobe-idp-site-verification=cd8dab640ab786a9457c8757f4188cd682dd687a694d1d9c251e... _globalsign-domain-verification=nx5U56FiDUqhsckpguh1BWVo8oJVRsFtwCfGxdBN4e teamviewer-sso-verification=bca073814d03413a9808ca2ed50f57da ca3-20df3489f1b34ed1aac1c11d797cd914 _globalsign-domain-verification=2wRqY6IrIINLY7B8Qcp-qur9HsiRTO04g4gwsMmFy3 |
| CAA | Lookup not available with standard resolver |
CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.
Informational: CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) records weren't checked in this scan.
A+Crawlabilityrobots.txt present, sitemap with 31 URLsPASS
# Ziff Davis content is made available for your non-commercial use subject to our
# Terms of Use here: https://www.ziffdavis.com/terms-of-use
# Use of any robot, crawler, or other tool to scrape, harvest, extract, or retrieve any content on
# this website using automated means is prohibited without written permission from Ziff Davis.
# Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single
# Market;
# (2) development or operation of artificial intelligence or machine learning software or
# databases, including by training, fine-tuning, embedding, and retrieval-augmented generation;
# (3) creating data sets containing our content or sharing it with others; and
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact licensing@ziffdavis.com for assistance.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /_views/
Disallow: /apiproxy
Disallow: */empty/
Disallow: /beta
Disallow: /blogs/
Disallow: /debug
Disallow: /pokedex/search
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /static/pv_candidate.html
Disallow: /stf/
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /sugarfif.html
Disallow: /wikis/*/edit
Disallow: /wikis/*/topcontributors
Disallow: /wikis/*/compare/*
# Block AI content scrapers
User-agent: "008"
User-agent: AddSearchBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
User-agent: Anchor Browser
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-extended
User-agent: atlassian-bot
User-agent: AutoRAG
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: Big Sur AI
User-agent: bigsur.ai
User-agent: Brandwatch
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Channel3Bot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawl4AI
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: DDM*
User-agent: DDM-DCipher*
User-agent: DDM-DCipher/1.0.7
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Direqt Anomura
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Echobot Bot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: HTTrack
User-agent: iAsk
User-agent: iaskspider
User-agent: ICC Crawler
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImageSiftBot
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
User-agent: Kunato
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: LINER Bot
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: LinkupBot
User-agent: Manus-User
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: mistral.ai
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: Novellum AI Crawl
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PeopleInc-DCipher-Scraper/1.1.0
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: SeekrBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBotSwa
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: TavilyBot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: TwinAgent
User-agent: Velen Crawler
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: Wrtn
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: ZanistaBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /articles/experimenting-with-galaxy-ai-camera-features-like-night-mode-generative-edit-and-more
Allow: /articles/how-ai-assisted-gaming-on-the-galaxy-s25-means-extended-play-time-and-optimized-performance
Sitemap: https://www.ign.com/rss/sitemap-articles.xml
Sitemap: https://www.ign.com/rss/sitemap-videos.xml
Sitemap: https://www.ign.com/rss/sitemap-wikis.xml
Sitemap: https://www.ign.com/rss/news/sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.ign.com/rss/videos/sitemap-index-recently-updated
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AURL Variantswww/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPSPASS
www / non-www
Preferred variant: non-www
HTTP → HTTPS
Use 301 (permanent) instead of 302 (temporary)
A+Domain Intelligenceign.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 28 years, 1 months old, hosted on FastlyPASS
1835 days
July 24, 2031
67 days
Issued by GlobalSign nv-sa
28 years, 1 months
Registered July 25, 1998
Not enabled
Protects against DNS spoofing
Fastly
ASN AS54113
151.101.65.135
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Expiry timeline
Recommended actions
- Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
- Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers
DNSSEC protects against DNS spoofing attacks. While not required, enabling DNSSEC adds an additional layer of security. Contact your DNS provider to enable it.
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.
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