Infrastructure - https://clarivate.com BeaverCheck Audit

F

HTTP Probe Timing

Action

Total 3743 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

FIX

DNS Lookup

32 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

3 ms

Time to First Byte

3.62 s

Total Time

3.74 s

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 32 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 3 ms Server Processing 3.58 s Content Transfer 124 ms

B

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

33 days until leaf cert expires — 4 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

33

days left

0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

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, 75 ms lookup

PASS

1 A records, 75 ms lookup

Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 23.185.0.4

Single A record — no DNS redundancy

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)

Got: 2620:12a:8000::4, 2620:12a:8001::4

4 nameserver(s) configured

Got: ha4.markmonitor.zone, ha2.markmonitor.zone, ha1.markmonitor.zone, ha3.markmonitor.zone

1 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: 75 ms

Got: 75 ms

A	23.185.0.4
AAAA	2620:12a:8000::4, 2620:12a:8001::4
CNAME	—
NS	ha4.markmonitor.zone, ha2.markmonitor.zone, ha1.markmonitor.zone, ha3.markmonitor.zone
MX	10 clarivate-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT	amazonses:1bLBKSw4584VyJdd5h2uiKkvvEmuF047SBRAjYIg3mE= teamviewer-sso-verification=ba91dc85b0d44acb8fa9a9ea65bf6095 perplexity-ai-domain-verification-c2e37s=MMyxfVtTtH7pbdH37CqcxgwKa cisco-ci-domain-verification=7ceedc27f7e17c304ac4ee7b55ddfa017f7dd1d85fff2d1392d... pendo-domain-verification=faef4c26-f782-4dc9-a4e1-71d674bd21d3 stripe-verification=58d530ef1573b7b50870afa24c189eaaa1f895fefbf18f83cd462a3f6f12... atlassian-sending-domain-verification=5514f907-5cfb-458a-86e3-59dfc3e61b01 prod-ipms-virg-mail-relay onetrust-domain-verification=bca3201946e947d59354afbaf0a2a1ee wrike-verification=MTg4ODY4OmFkYjBlYWIyNmFjNmQ3OGNjMzc4NTUyNjhkNjcxMTQyM2NjZmU1M... google-site-verification=6xJQtsTdw6-hMQf66ukkU02ohNnErQfc97jiBLDcxQU atlassian-domain-verification=yad4dBd3vi7t43fccWicT4aTXI02uYnXm2oxttFGIxT5PgSvkt... atlassian-domain-verification=8tFc82GexRGcVzICTju72I9JNrk7RwpCr2zjU/TkK0Hd//hy94... 8xvy7dgjyjfw8p1s53565lqj39cxv58j amazonses:S8MiqSDjHfNuU1m+xTsekE/accNT37fLzJxar0MZ6lU= google-site-verification=G0ioJKKYGCAYmiZ8PfH_jJCqgwHlov3iv5CcszhYuNU TAILSCALE-uxh1c7HkC6ejbgrSHheg fastly-domain-delegation-6wZXvyAYvqY6eDHQ-455222-2021-12-21 figma-domain-verification=7270251e41c1756b6f9877a95f24b22bbefa77647b91c2fb6c6f3f... amazon-business-verification=5e11e03c29a48a6878321d845fcb95ca31515e7c495f5a65d07... google-site-verification=kndq9tJlPDM8YDUwVfClSusEQLndhFP2PctnMb5xnPQ google-site-verification=xeCiM_8T6Vw4Uu-3o3vElDjWFn085QMfNB-OQisn_ac amazonses:FVn34vigBQoVyX5VCsZM5aWBmX0NqfmCJQdJegft/yI= ca3-deffbea64c9a4b55a20d0b7bf0ef0ad4 atlassian-domain-verification=IQQpEMfZ8H1Bfj0D2PHxOYW85VZCKGAfD2NhiWYJKuZACJ7wVP... SPF v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.... stripe-verification=f27b232f3bd8f1e6d8184a89d9af02c59a58b12d546ed5616c1a1ba67148... P13hZM71v7Pn9+XotetoD650lqbxyGHaOoAFhwvaSjcQ0uE+uAyNvW4JhpJmDpgfLZNQXu82CdvutlQf... amazonses:nw5Z1IzUEIir9nF/jk14GnTfjv58WkPvRtDzbE33JK0= ca3-285cc9695946437e92f96ed896eed840 amazonses:QKKwALExzbnTwkz6YNq3R/NrHFdblvbyAv+EcQXLbp8= amazonses:SfFs1x0QwWPX0f58XI4DaLoIcfnFhoRNrsiBkz4XGmc= amazonses:CdtezgcC+zkifFVY5btFMa4fzQ4BpghBTE6zr+beieM= _y7x7z089ga6gwrsk1ist583rgzgjblc onetrust-domain-verification=236ec154a3aa4903a0c039c5514fbc35 amazonses:WTKgcymrJTCZa1ItnmODR1gk1QPZWRSIvOYrDvO8sqY= vmware-cloud-verification-0668ecb2-c73e-4a22-98c8-b5078550d143 webexdomainverification.5523f43614297acbe053ab06fc0a5471=b0075467-3e3a-415f-a903... smartsheet-site-validation=4wId9lqkLAxzx1XATZENSE8RrB62lnjQ adobe-idp-site-verification=b40301a0ecb7b5b2446d3bed0d384fbadf796285b16e9acb8f14... prod-cm-virg-mail-relay
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 75 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

No redirects — direct access

PASS

No redirects — direct access

Got: https://clarivate.com

https://clarivate.com

3146 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://clarivate.com	200	3146 ms	HTTP/1.1	nginx

A+

IPv6 Readiness

IPv6 reachable (1 ms)

PASS

IPv6 reachable (1 ms)

IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2620:12a:8000::4, 2620:12a:8001::4

Got: 1 ms connect

IPv6 Ready

AAAA Records 2620:12a:8000::4, 2620:12a:8001::4 Connection Reachable (1 ms)

A+

Crawlability

robots.txt present, sitemap with 16 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 16 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 6579 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 16 entries

Sitemap index with 16 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 6579 B Sitemaps referenced 4 User-agents UptimeRobot, ZoominfoBot, *, Baiduspider-news, YandexImages, SeznamBot, AlphaBot, python-requests, Bingbot, Baiduspider-image, DuckDuckBot, Yeti, meta-externalagent, CrunchBot, Wget, MJ12bot, Googlebot-Video, Slurp, DomainStatsBot, Google-Read-Aloud, BacklinkCrawler, 008, Python-urllib, Googlebot-Image, Yandex, Exabot, facebookexternalhit, meta-externalfetcher, Writer, AhrefsBot, Acunetix, AdIdxBot, YandexNews, GPTBot, Offline Explorer, Seekport Crawler, curl, Java, YandexVideo, YandexMedia, SiteCheckerBot, sqlmap/1.0-dev, Nessus, CensysInspect, omgili, Baiduspider, YandexBot, CCBot, ClaudeBot, Barkrowler, SerpstatBot, Google-Structured-Data-Testing-Tool, sqlmap, YandexBlogs, ChatGPT-User, masscan, Go-http-client, Heritrix, Zoominfobot, libwww-perl, spbot, Scrapy, AdsBot-Google, Sogou head spider, cohere-ai, AhrefsSiteAudit, SemrushBot, Sogou web spider, BingPreview, Sogou, Sogou-Test-Spider, Twiceler, DotBot, facebookcatalog, MozDotBot, ZoomBot, Google-InspectionTool, WebCopier, Nutch, PetalBot, Googlebot, Mediapartners-Google, ia_archiver, facebot, DataForSeoBot, OkHttp, TurnitinBot, OpenLinkProfiler, MSNBot, anthropic-ai, SeobilityBot, httpx, Sogou Pic Spider, Googlebot-News, Baiduspider-video, Screaming Frog SEO Spider, crawler4j, Sogou Orion spider, Twitterbot, BLEXBot, Cliqzbot Blocking No — crawling allowed

# General rules for all bots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/3/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/4/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/5/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*.pdf$

Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /privacy-center/notices-policies/privacy-policy/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/src/favicon/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/manifest.json
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/ieconfig.xml

Crawl-delay: 3

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.clarivate.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.clarivate.com/academia-government/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.clarivate.com/life-sciences-healthcare/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.clarivate.com/intellectual-property/sitemap_index.xml

# Allow all major search engine bots with no crawl delay
# Google
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
# Bing / Microsoft
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: MSNBot
User-agent: BingPreview
User-agent: AdIdxBot
# Yahoo
User-agent: Slurp
# Baidu (China)
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-news
# Yandex (Russia)
User-agent: Yandex
User-agent: YandexBot
User-agent: YandexImages
User-agent: YandexVideo
User-agent: YandexNews
User-agent: YandexBlogs
User-agent: YandexMedia
# DuckDuckGo
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
# Sogou (China)
User-agent: Sogou
User-agent: Sogou web spider
User-agent: Sogou Pic Spider
User-agent: Sogou head spider
User-agent: Sogou Orion spider
User-agent: Sogou-Test-Spider
# Seznam (Czech Republic)
User-agent: SeznamBot
# Naver (Korea)
User-agent: Yeti
# Exabot (France)
User-agent: Exabot
# Cuil (historical)
User-agent: Twiceler
# Archive.org / Alexa
User-agent: ia_archiver
#Rules for major search engine bots
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/3/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/4/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/5/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*.pdf$

Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /privacy-center/notices-policies/privacy-policy/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/src/favicon/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/manifest.json
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/ieconfig.xml
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/03/clarivate-privacy-notice-1273x691-1.png
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/03/clvprivacypolicy.jpg

Crawl-delay: 0
# Search engine bots are now ALLOWED with no crawl delay.

# Next are other good bots like social media, AI, SEO, and analytics bots with a short crawl delay.
# Social Media Bots
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: facebot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: facebookcatalog
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher

# Allow other good bots (AI) with a short crawl delay
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Writer

# Allow other good SEO and analytics bots with a short crawl delay
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: BLEXBot
User-agent: Barkrowler
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: SerpstatBot
User-agent: MozDotBot
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
User-agent: DomainStatsBot
User-agent: ZoomBot
User-agent: SiteCheckerBot
User-agent: Cliqzbot
User-agent: SeobilityBot
User-agent: UptimeRobot
User-agent: Google-Structured-Data-Testing-Tool
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool

#Rules for good bots like social media, AI, SEO, and analytics bots
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/3/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/4/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/sites/5/dlm_uploads/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*.pdf$

Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /privacy-center/notices-policies/privacy-policy/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/src/favicon/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/manifest.json
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/ieconfig.xml
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/03/clarivate-privacy-notice-1273x691-1.png
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/03/clvprivacypolicy.jpg

Crawl-delay: 3

# Good bots like Facebook, AhrefsBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, and SemrushBot are now ALLOWED.

# Disallowed bots below are blocked with a crawl delay of 3600 seconds (1 hour).
# Security Scanners & Vulnerability Tools
User-agent: sqlmap
User-agent: sqlmap/1.0-dev
User-agent: Acunetix
User-agent: masscan
User-agent: Nessus
User-agent: CensysInspect
User-agent: AlphaBot
User-agent: Go-http-client
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: WebCopier

# General Scrapers & Crawlers
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: Heritrix
User-agent: BacklinkCrawler
User-agent: 008
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Seekport Crawler
User-agent: Zoominfobot
User-agent: ZoominfoBot
User-agent: CrunchBot
User-agent: omgili

# HTTP Clients & Libraries
User-agent: Python-urllib
User-agent: python-requests
User-agent: libwww-perl
User-agent: httpx
User-agent: curl
User-agent: Wget
User-agent: OkHttp
User-agent: Java

# Plagiarism & Low-Value Bots
User-agent: TurnitinBot
User-agent: Yeti

# Specialized Crawlers (aggressive referrer spam bots)
User-agent: crawler4j
User-agent: OpenLinkProfiler
User-agent: spbot

#Rules for disallowed bots
Disallow: /
Allow: /privacy-center/notices-policies/privacy-policy/
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/03/clarivate-privacy-notice-1273x691-1.png
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/03/clvprivacypolicy.jpg
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/src/favicon/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/manifest.json
Allow: /wp-content/themes/clarivate/ieconfig.xml
Crawl-delay: 3600

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 16 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A+

URL Variants

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

PASS

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

www/non-www redirect configured correctly (preferred: non-www)

HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

301https://www.clarivate.com/

200https://clarivate.com/

Preferred variant: non-www

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

A+

Domain Intelligence

clarivate.com — via MarkMonitor Inc., 17 years, 9 months old

PASS

clarivate.com — via MarkMonitor Inc., 17 years, 9 months old

Domain registered until Oct 1, 2026 (5 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: MarkMonitor Inc.

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.

Domain expiry

108 days

October 1, 2026

SSL certificate

33 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

17 years, 9 months

Registered October 1, 2008

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Unknown

2620:12a:8000::4

Registrar

MarkMonitor Inc.

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 MarkMonitor Inc.

Created October 1, 2008 (17 years, 9 months ago)

Expires October 1, 2026 (5 months)

Last Updated August 30, 2025

Name Servers ha1.markmonitor.zone, ha2.markmonitor.zone, ha3.markmonitor.zone, ha4.markmonitor.zone

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 2620:12a:8000::4

Data source: rdap (0.1s)

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

CDN & Delivery

Fastly (MISS, MISS, MISS, MISS)

PASS

Fastly (MISS, MISS, MISS, MISS)

Site is served via Fastly CDN

Got: x-served-by: cache-chi-kigq8000136-CHI, cache-toj-leto2350074-TOJ, cache-toj-leto2350077-TOJ, cache-toj-leto2350077-TOJ

CDN cache status: MISS, MISS, MISS, MISS

CDN Detected: Fastly

Provider Fastly Cache Status MISS, MISS, MISS, MISS Evidence x-served-by: cache-chi-kigq8000136-CHI, cache-toj-leto2350074-TOJ, cache-toj-leto2350077-TOJ, cache-toj-leto2350077-TOJ