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Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
85
GRADE
B
FIX
1
REVIEW
3
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Santa Clara, United States
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 3 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.

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
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.msstate.edu/
200https://msstate.edu/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://msstate.edu/ → https://www.msstate.edu/

Consistent

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

Certificate validity

273
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, 123 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 123 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 3.216.11.38
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
3 nameserver(s) configured
Got: trantor.umd.edu, ns2.msstate.edu, ns1.msstate.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: 123 ms
Got: 123 ms
A3.216.11.38
AAAA—
CNAME—
NStrantor.umd.edu, ns2.msstate.edu, ns1.msstate.edu
MX
10 mx2.hc3512-62.iphmx.com
10 mx1.hc3512-62.iphmx.com
TXT
ZC3JZGANYF0IZ0VJXMWK5ITRVUYUFW28QFGUP0MUA
Mississippi State University
SPF v=spf1 ip4:130.18.0.0/16 exists:%{i}.spf.hc3512-62.iphmx.com include:servers.mcs...
smartsheet-site-validation=f2dbpOVuvjlKi0asVFfozM9evT1Y42Th
ciscocidomainverification=2a8affacbe57fba3f98915b4c55239042ae89b6e658235fc7502a2...
Attn: Gerhard Lehnerer
MSU, MS, 39762
google-site-verification=h896HsRFaUAnQsCIM_vuxoZizQDnSsLuqEciCed7FlI
jamf-site-verification=hB55Ui5ExqxM4KAK5nQ2VA
google-site-verification=nRbCLZ11dYIA-Txfz7Zrao6x_jrPh8gXQRODdkOFGac
P.O. Box 9697
anthropic-domain-verification-mv1s9a=8YiX5hsk4IxUZaX2fQZbRMLgD
apple-domain-verification=MpioD8uX7FeNDsOf
atlassian-domain-verification=ns/lm61ofT0Af0harpVgKLbGfk9DAvSApLVL/LztGUKYJSNGyt...
LitDlWqoU00o66KC7tl/ORIaMxzm6OemrL85bPPsI8tcXJ7HI3J8YuPBFllJhwviYAYRiq2sQQh0HMQy...
_globalsign-domain-verification=uRkE5N13_v0lzWB6RAfxI_Z3_F2lVyPlFm_5XlmY6W
duo_sso_verification=v16Zdh8j2Pe1XvS2UNareUGvdFx3UqNdLd9iv1T0By27dVKFbY3E9KXg30I...
MS=ms99677221
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 123 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), 555 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 555 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://msstate.edu → https://www.msstate.edu/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect
Info::
Redirect overhead: 555 ms total
Got: 555 ms

https://msstate.edu

277 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.msstate.edu/

277 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://msstate.edu301277 msHTTP/1.1nginx
2https://www.msstate.edu/200277 msHTTP/1.1Apache/2.4.37 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 3 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 3 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 1594 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 3 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 3 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt does not reference a sitemap
Add a 'Sitemap:' directive to robots.txt so search engines can discover your sitemap.

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 1594 B Sitemaps referenced 0 User-agents * Blocking No — crawling allowed
#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password/
Disallow: /index.php/user/register/
Disallow: /index.php/user/login/
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout/
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 3 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A+
Domain Intelligence
msstate.edu — 38 years, 1 months old, hosted on AWS
PASS
msstate.edu — 38 years, 1 months old, hosted on AWS
Info::
Domain registered until Jul 31, 2028 (2 years, 3 months remaining)
Info::
Hosting: AWS
Got: AS14618
Domain expiry

776 days

July 31, 2028

SSL certificate

273 days

Issued by Internet2

Domain age

38 years, 1 months

Registered September 22, 1988

DNSSEC

Status unknown

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

AWS

ASN AS14618

3.216.11.38

Registrar

Registrar unknown

Lock status unknown 3 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Registrar
Created September 22, 1988 (38 years, 1 months ago)
Expires July 31, 2028 (2 years, 3 months)
Last Updated July 2, 2025
Name Servers ns1.msstate.edu, ns2.msstate.edu, trantor.umd.edu
Registrant Mississippi State University
Hosting
IP Address 3.216.11.38
ASN AS14618 (AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
Provider AWS
Data source: whois (0.5s)
A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 275 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
65 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
68 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
75 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
275 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
275 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 65 ms TCP Connect 68 ms TLS Handshake 75 ms Server Processing 68 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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