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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
86
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
3
PASS
6
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
6 PASS 3 REVIEW
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.stevemadden.com/
200https://stevemadden.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://stevemadden.com/ https://stevemadden.com/

Consistent

B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
81 days until leaf cert expires — 5 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

81
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Extend HSTS max-age to at least 31536000 (1 year) to meet the preload list criteria
  • 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, 111 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 111 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 23.227.38.32
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
2 nameserver(s) configured
Got: dale.ns.cloudflare.com, liv.ns.cloudflare.com
Info::
1 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: 111 ms
Got: 111 ms
A23.227.38.32
AAAA
CNAME
NSdale.ns.cloudflare.com, liv.ns.cloudflare.com
MX
0 stevemadden-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT
duo_sso_verification=7ZfZXvQPTfIg3XNAv3qLb5VtXYXZ9V5S8v88pA4FppJ8IvfJEzcP0Rx0xYE...
google-site-verification=TrFbBVVAi9y_1Vfax1BgKiwETQ5UfyN9rKTYS8h5zS4
apple-domain-verification=Zg9f52xAnmhyYY45
qh99mj2f2c3z35jk74y45p900s3brds7
intersight=0e57b7edfd7460f71160d9af9b0c8e761ef41ab64630d1634c59bccf93c00a17
7n3qwskhgsl97qyldglp5p7ys97g1pzg
facebook-domain-verification=a9c12srpkdgy1yaj7lob76g9u6z8w8
fa40lwoN1uPxuVBc+S0FEVZmauROA3zn0BXGWMNKL6o2ks/+/0nxjTYt95XiVEyGAo0RnYlHd3+EIfRU...
asv=8925d7922b5ab85174abebb3b6eb2a9b
hyz7vskyjblm9fq0d8vd2gz1pthv1bx3
_6icsyg0ev2qhpp57f9mrp2w4p1myfrg
logmein-verification-code=CnQhc0vO6L32XeiODQl6A9dNY
_f3pdg3qg7zc02d69dvmtknu09zp7em3
google-site-verification=jqDH7AkvtHt0VRrnq0aiWHHxegPKx5USr12OLxE8VKc
SPF v=spf1 ip4:169.55.48.51 ip4:12.233.90.84 ip4:104.37.18.10 ip4:104.37.18.23 ip4:1...
specops-verification-code=ac01ad4e-4748-4211-8a29-df4a7c80ac88
MS=ms15203529
atlassian-domain-verification=/B8oToOejUmddGaCW9nREFzdda7uAyF7gaHHOTqqP3jw10MJY2...
miro-verification=b242cead1abe8756d566052eb7f25479f5061e08
openai-domain-verification=dv-AXTdNVszmUflhLtvQzCdzvW6
google-site-verification=5GKiiQWJzNhFqMy0ODgwKTI-FmMVk9r0dELKiVnKu9E
7qqlxs4c1b3lntzhb7kybslpkbmr5gk5
google-site-verification=LTPPDqKsfldDX3UUBP3gkTHgfnQ_YtDO1aSIRTOLCh4
infor-cloudsuite-domain-verification=7JN5S24VK5E8PRUMFAWL8GE7BA2M9EX96BV2C9W6DWQ...
aliyun-site-verification=63de2d2d-99bf-4909-969f-4e6b3d8c4cae
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 111 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), 308 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 308 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://stevemadden.com → https://www.stevemadden.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://stevemadden.com

136 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.stevemadden.com/

173 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://stevemadden.com301136 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare
2https://www.stevemadden.com/200173 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 6 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 6 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 7002 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 6 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 6 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 7002 B Sitemaps referenced 3 User-agents *, adsbot-google, Nutch, AhrefsBot, AhrefsSiteAudit, MJ12bot, Pinterest Blocking No — crawling allowed
# we use Shopify as our ecommerce platform

#  ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
#  ┃  Robots & Agent policy                                               ┃
#  ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫
#  ┃  Checkouts are for humans.                                           ┃
#  ┃  * Automated scraping, “buy-for-me” agents, or any end-to-end flow   ┃
#  ┃    that completes payment without a final human review step is not   ┃
#  ┃    permitted.                                                        ┃
#  ┃  * Legitimate integrators must use the official Checkout Kit:        ┃
#  ┃      https://www.shopify.com/checkout-kit                            ┃
#  ┃                                                                      ┃
#  ┃  Terms of Service: https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms               ┃
#  ┃  Contact: bots@shopify.com                                           ┃
#  ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

User-agent: *
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /21708465/checkouts
Disallow: /21708465/orders
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /*/collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /collections/*+*
Disallow: /collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /collections/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/collections/*+*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2b*
Disallow: */collections/*filter*&*filter*
Disallow: /blogs/*+*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*+*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /policies/
Disallow: /*/policies/
Disallow: /*/*?*ls=*&ls=*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3D*%3Fls%3D*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3d*%3fls%3d*
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /sf_private_access_tokens
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/monorail
Disallow: /cdn/wpm/*.js
Disallow: /recommendations/products
Disallow: /*/recommendations/products
Disallow: /products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Sitemap: https://www.stevemadden.com/sitemap.xml

# Google adsbot ignores robots.txt unless specifically named!
User-agent: adsbot-google
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /21708465/checkouts
Disallow: /21708465/orders
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /cdn/wpm/*.js
Disallow: /products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /sf_private_access_tokens

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /21708465/checkouts
Disallow: /21708465/orders
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /*/collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /collections/*+*
Disallow: /collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /collections/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/collections/*+*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2b*
Disallow: */collections/*filter*&*filter*
Disallow: /blogs/*+*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*+*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /policies/
Disallow: /*/policies/
Disallow: /*/*?*ls=*&ls=*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3D*%3Fls%3D*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3d*%3fls%3d*
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /sf_private_access_tokens
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/monorail
Disallow: /cdn/wpm/*.js
Disallow: /recommendations/products
Disallow: /*/recommendations/products
Disallow: /products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Sitemap: https://www.stevemadden.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /21708465/checkouts
Disallow: /21708465/orders
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /*/collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /collections/*+*
Disallow: /collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /collections/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/collections/*+*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2b*
Disallow: */collections/*filter*&*filter*
Disallow: /blogs/*+*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*+*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /policies/
Disallow: /*/policies/
Disallow: /*/*?*ls=*&ls=*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3D*%3Fls%3D*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3d*%3fls%3d*
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /sf_private_access_tokens
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/monorail
Disallow: /cdn/wpm/*.js
Disallow: /recommendations/products
Disallow: /*/recommendations/products
Disallow: /products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Sitemap: https://www.stevemadden.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: Pinterest
Crawl-delay: 1

A+
Domain Intelligence
stevemadden.com — via 101domain GRS Limited, 28 years old, hosted on Cloudflare
PASS
stevemadden.com — via 101domain GRS Limited, 28 years old, hosted on Cloudflare
Info::
Domain registered until Aug 17, 2029 (3 years, 4 months remaining)
Info::
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.
Info::
Registrar: 101domain GRS Limited
Info::
Hosting: Cloudflare
Got: AS13335
Domain expiry

1160 days

August 17, 2029

SSL certificate

81 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

28 years

Registered August 18, 1998

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Cloudflare

ASN AS13335

23.227.38.32

Registrar

101domain GRS Limited

Lock status unknown 2 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
Registrar 101domain GRS Limited
Created August 18, 1998 (28 years ago)
Expires August 17, 2029 (3 years, 4 months)
Last Updated August 23, 2021
Name Servers dale.ns.cloudflare.com, liv.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 23.227.38.32
ASN AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)
Provider Cloudflare
Data source: rdap (0.4s)

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

A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 180 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
42 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
16 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
23 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
180 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
180 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 42 ms TCP Connect 16 ms TLS Handshake 23 ms Server Processing 100 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
A
CDN & Delivery
Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)
PASS
Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)
Info::
Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: CDG)
Got: cf-ray: 9e8fcd26bfec99f1-CDG
Info::
CDN cache status: DYNAMIC
CDN Detected: Cloudflare
Provider Cloudflare Cache Status DYNAMIC Evidence cf-ray: 9e8fcd26bfec99f1-CDG
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