Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.

SCORE

GRADE

FIX

REVIEW

PASS

INFO

Probed from Singapore, Singapore

301 Moved Permanently

Checks

4 PASS 5 REVIEW

Crawlability

robots.txt present, sitemap with 0 URLs

REVIEW

robots.txt present, sitemap with 0 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 3353 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml contains invalid XML

Search engines may not be able to parse the sitemap. Fix XML validation errors.

sitemap.xml is empty — no URLs found

An empty sitemap provides no value. Add <url> entries for your pages.

robots.txt references sitemap

Search engines may not be able to parse the sitemap. Fix XML validation errors.

Why this matters

An unparseable sitemap is silently ignored by Google — the URLs it advertises are never queued for crawl.

Learn more ▾

Google's sitemap parser is strict about XML validity. A single unescaped `&` or unclosed tag invalidates the whole file. Run your sitemap through a validator (Search Console's Sitemaps report flags it) and fix the offending entry. Most generators escape correctly; mistakes usually come from manually-written entries.

Source: sitemaps.org / Google Search Central

An empty sitemap provides no value. Add <url> entries for your pages.

Why this matters

An empty sitemap signals 'no content to index' to Google — actively harmful versus having no sitemap at all.

Learn more ▾

Google compares URLs in the sitemap against URLs it has crawled. An empty sitemap on a site with thousands of pages signals abandonment. Either populate it correctly (most CMSes auto-generate) or delete the file and let Google crawl normally.

Source: Google Search Central / sitemaps.org

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 3353 B Sitemaps referenced 55 User-agents * Blocking No — crawling allowed

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /templates/Blank-HTML
Disallow: /templates/Multivuplayer.html 
Disallow: /templates/Home-page-with-spaces.html 
Disallow: /templates/Home-page-with-out-spaces.html 
Disallow: /templates/PRN_Custom_MultiVu_Recommendation
Disallow: /templates/get-bitly-url.txt
Disallow: /widget-landing-page.html
Disallow: /multivu/

# AI Context File
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/llms.txt

# Standard Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/es/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/es/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/sv/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/sv/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/ru/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/ru/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/sk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/sk/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/pt/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/pt/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/pl/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/pl/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/nl/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/nl/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/it/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/it/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/de/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/de/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/fi/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/fi/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/da/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/da/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/cs/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/cs/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/fr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/fr/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/no/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/no/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/ar/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/ar/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/il/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/il/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/in/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/in/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/id/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/id/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/zh/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/zh/sitemap-news.xml
 
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/br/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/br/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/mx/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/mx/sitemap-news.xml
 
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/kr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/kr/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/jp/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/jp/sitemap-news.xml

Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/vn/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.prnewswire.com/vn/sitemap-news.xml

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type URL Set URLs 0 entries Valid XML No

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.prnewswire.com/

200https://prnewswire.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

Domain Intelligence

prnewswire.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 31 years, 4 months old

REVIEW

prnewswire.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 31 years, 4 months old

Domain expires in 23 days

This domain expires on May 10, 2026. Domains that expire accidentally cause complete website downtime. Enable auto-renewal or renew manually now.

Got: Expires May 10, 2026

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: CSC Corporate Domains, 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

EXPIRED

May 10, 2026

SSL certificate

89 days

Issued by Google Trust Services

Domain age

31 years, 4 months

Registered May 9, 1995

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Unknown

2a06:98c1:310b::ac40:9bd1

Registrar

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Unlocked 2 NS records

Expiry timeline

Today

+1 year

Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)

Recommended actions

Domain has EXPIRED — renew immediately to avoid total site outage
Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers

Registrar CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Created May 9, 1995 (31 years, 4 months ago)

Expires May 10, 2026 (23 days)

Last Updated May 6, 2025

Name Servers ara.ns.cloudflare.com, bart.ns.cloudflare.com

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 2a06:98c1:310b::ac40:9bd1

Data source: rdap (0.0s)

This domain expires on May 10, 2026. Domains that expire accidentally cause complete website downtime. Enable auto-renewal or renew manually now.

Why this matters

Domain expiry approaching — renew immediately and ensure auto-renew + alerting are configured.

Source: ICANN renewal policy

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

HTTP Probe Timing

Total 1035 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

REVIEW

DNS Lookup

7 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

11 ms

Time to First Byte

1.04 s

Total Time

1.04 s

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 7 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 11 ms Server Processing 1.02 s Content Transfer 0 ms

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

89 days until leaf cert expires — 4 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

days left

0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

Prefer TLS 1.3 — TLS 1.2 is acceptable but TLS 1.3 removes RSA key exchange and improves latency
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

Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 172.64.155.209, 104.18.32.47

Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)

Got: 2a06:98c1:3100::6812:202f, 2a06:98c1:310b::ac40:9bd1

2 nameserver(s) configured

Got: ara.ns.cloudflare.com, bart.ns.cloudflare.com

5 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: 10 ms

Got: 10 ms

A	172.64.155.209, 104.18.32.47
AAAA	2a06:98c1:3100::6812:202f, 2a06:98c1:310b::ac40:9bd1
CNAME	—
NS	ara.ns.cloudflare.com, bart.ns.cloudflare.com
MX	10 phsmail2.prnewswire.com 10 hssmail3.prnewswire.com 10 hssmail1.prnewswire.com 10 phsmail1.prnewswire.com 10 hssmail2.prnewswire.com
TXT	3zwvw1drxyh3k2mfbybqqzp3xclg4bcs MS=ms13051992 MS=ms25379356 MS=ms28844289 MS=ms61697390 _0vqeb3ihxzgmvavjcrj9dnibwxso61d box-domain-verification=d0369ff4a0618ff19f1d7f9c98c9bb65203e8a33febfc79cf2df6db7... google-site-verification=lVuDRlmFWMikpFr3E4XSiDSxRwCfz7umyssdx2_J5es google-site-verification=xDAXH-iSoJ2LVjsJb88HI03rnWfjQ3sQcczI4-EGotQ lxl3xp6f4hmf9t6wj2byz4t3f25t1j05 tollbit-domain-verification=48b7f72a5bec6caeaf96f1d5279ad15976dd80bc2deadaa8fb3d... SPF v=spf1 include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email ~all
CAA	Lookup 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.

Redirect Chain

1 redirect(s), 310 ms total

PASS

1 redirect(s), 310 ms total

Single redirect

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

WWW normalization redirect

https://prnewswire.com

275 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.prnewswire.com/

35 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://prnewswire.com	301	275 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare
2	https://www.prnewswire.com/	200	35 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+

IPv6 Readiness

IPv6 reachable (2 ms)

PASS

IPv6 reachable (2 ms)

IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2a06:98c1:3100::6812:202f, 2a06:98c1:310b::ac40:9bd1

Got: 2 ms connect

IPv6 Ready

AAAA Records 2a06:98c1:3100::6812:202f, 2a06:98c1:310b::ac40:9bd1 Connection Reachable (2 ms)

CDN & Delivery

Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)

PASS

Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)

Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: SIN)

Got: cf-ray: 9ed522a5d8496be1-SIN

CDN cache status: DYNAMIC

CDN Detected: Cloudflare

Provider Cloudflare Cache Status DYNAMIC Evidence cf-ray: 9ed522a5d8496be1-SIN

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