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 Madrid, Spain

301 Moved Permanently

Checks

6 PASS 3 REVIEW

Redirect Chain

2 redirect(s), 80 ms total

REVIEW

2 redirect(s), 80 ms total

2 redirects before reaching final URL

Each redirect adds latency. Try to minimize the chain to 1 hop.

WWW normalization redirect

https://thisismoney.co.uk

7 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/

60 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/inde...

13 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://thisismoney.co.uk	301	7 ms	HTTP/1.1	AkamaiGHost
2	https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/	301	60 ms	HTTP/1.1	AkamaiGHost
3	https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/inde...	403	13 ms	HTTP/1.1	AkamaiGHost

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

Each redirect adds latency. Try to minimize the chain to 1 hop.

Why this matters

Redirect chain — each hop adds latency; combine into one redirect where possible.

Source: Google Search Central / web.dev

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

34 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

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

CDN & Delivery

Akamai

REVIEW

Akamai

Site is served via Akamai CDN

Got: server header

CDN Detected: Akamai

Provider Akamai Evidence server header

A+

DNS Records

1 A records, 46 ms lookup

PASS

1 A records, 46 ms lookup

Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 23.10.68.244

Single A record — no DNS redundancy

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)

Got: 2a02:26f0:2380:29d::16c4, 2a02:26f0:2380:295::16c4

6 nameserver(s) configured

Got: a1-204.akam.net, a24-65.akam.net, a6-64.akam.net, a7-66.akam.net, a4-67.akam.net, a16-67.akam.net

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: 46 ms

Got: 46 ms

A	23.10.68.244
AAAA	2a02:26f0:2380:29d::16c4, 2a02:26f0:2380:295::16c4
CNAME	—
NS	a1-204.akam.net, a24-65.akam.net, a6-64.akam.net, a7-66.akam.net, a4-67.akam.net, a16-67.akam.net
MX	10 thisismoney-co-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT	google-site-verification=49qpSbBgERLGX1J7pExuRCyEGary0ifhIAwkKqdt_s0 atlassian-domain-verification=YVO51xB8CMklZCk2cV3OMCVY9wIEP2GoyyujEBzpfD3CD2vSK2... ptw81p74706lk264th4l6zh7sychcwp9 SPF v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com ip4:195.234.243.112 -all google-site-verification=GpetHKFZ4-q47PgW1sO-MolBBj-6uHybJa_vM3beBmQ tmtng1qdrln8j0h1wq0zgk286rwdn0zv 0ed1fe018a697c07f1eb2f4c2ba34ad9c840008e6d MS=ms95103904 google-site-verification=MzsJSwgWiKZQMOJorPq2fPs8eEakX9lXJ9zxPT_mII8 2syczqnwdpd00n984xl43q9vw793ls9j Qd42hQV835liQ0EK+aIbU6mA8GlV7ntfYKADZs5pDqK0+75wcTI7+yPiybFGHUhVItHbObUb7qSL6XJL... n6d1xplryyclfkc1c02bqzlslfplhmjp bD56sWOkab1WjmWBbnMhvKMh3y/1rNQQt17/P/ireSvgneBQy6pPljGn6R0+wHFkPRO6eAJd4Ln/SS05... dropbox-domain-verification=zdev85p8hjxt figma-domain-verification=e82fb42a2e4b9a64bc017081a64e6b63ceaec2c6a8e1d93ff3ebcc... airtable-verification=21f08445d3c56642dc465f311797c229 6j83921hn2hj84fp7t8wnlt2mn1fs8d2 adobe-idp-site-verification=5c874982d9eb77c27639f75fe9649403668793e47bc55164e579...
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 46 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+

IPv6 Readiness

IPv6 reachable (1 ms)

PASS

IPv6 reachable (1 ms)

IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2a02:26f0:2380:29d::16c4, 2a02:26f0:2380:295::16c4

Got: 1 ms connect

IPv6 Ready

AAAA Records 2a02:26f0:2380:29d::16c4, 2a02:26f0:2380:295::16c4 Connection Reachable (1 ms)

A+

Crawlability

robots.txt present, sitemap with 1 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 1 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 6313 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 1 entries

Sitemap index with 1 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 6313 B Sitemaps referenced 21 User-agents bl.uk_ldfc_bot, ecoresearchCrawler, Claude-SearchBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, WRTNBot, tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp, ChatGLM-Spider, WARDBot, PageFreezer, Amazonbot, cohere-ai, MistralAI-User, bne.es_bot, Nicecrawler, bedrockbot, CCBot, omgili, TaraGroup Intelligent Bot, Europarchive.org, mirrorweb, special_archiver, Mediapartners-Google, Bytespider, Cotoyogi, SafeDNS, amazon-kendra-, Kangaroo Bot, Perplexity-User, Arquivo-web-crawler, bl.uk_ldfc_renderbot, AhrefsBot, Google-CloudVertexBot, LinerBot, QualifiedBot, VelenPublicWebCrawler, MSIECrawler, nationalarchives.gov.uk, netarkivet.dk, nlncrawler, SmarshBot, AI2Bot, Diffbot, FriendlyCrawler, Kulturarw3, XY-Archive-Compliance-Crawler, Claude-User, DeepSeekBot, DuckAssistBot, Grok, Sidetrade indexer bot, ecoresearch, netEstate NE Crawler, nl-israel_iaharvester2026, nlnbot, webarchiv.cz, ClaudeBot, iaskspider/2.0, ImagesiftBot, ArchiveBot, Meltwater, Gemini-Deep-Research, GPTBot, img2dataset, PanguBot, Scrapy, Timpibot, archive.org_bot, LivelapBot, mediacloud, TurnitinBot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Meta-ExternalFetcher, OAI-Operator, OAI-SearchBot, kb.dk_bot, XY-Archive-Compliance-Archiver, Claude-Web, ISSCyberRiskCrawler, PetalBot, Seekr, TikTokSpider, Webzio-Extended, archive-it.org, Authory, EchoboxBot, GoogleOther-Image, GoogleOther-Video, YouBot, bnf.fr_bot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, ChatGPT-User, FacebookBot, Google-Extended, wpbot, *, WordPress.com mShots, CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler, GoogleOther, ICC-Crawler, KunatoCrawler, omgilibot, PerplexityBot, babel Blocking No — crawling allowed

# Robots.txt for https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/ updated 01/04/2026
#
#
#
# This is Money content is made available for your personal and non-commercial
# use subject to our Terms and Conditions of use:
# https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/terms
# Use of any device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the content
# using automated means is prohibited without prior written permission from
# DMG MEDIA LIMITED.  Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining activities under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in
# the Digital Single Market;
# (2) the development of any software, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI),
# and/or large language models (LLMs);
# (3) creating or providing archived or cached data sets containing our content to others; and/or
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# For any licensing queries please contact partnerships@dmgmedia.co.uk.


User-agent: * 

Disallow: /registration/*
Disallow: /coffeebreak/
Disallow: /healthghost/
Disallow: /home/
Disallow: /homeghost/
Disallow: /mailonsundayghost/
Disallow: /moslive/
Disallow: /mostread/
Disallow: /motoring/
Disallow: /news/
Disallow: /property/
Disallow: /video/
Disallow: /textbased/ 
Disallow: /legacygallery/ 
Disallow: /error
Disallow: /*redirect.php? 
Disallow: *reportAbuse*
Disallow: /*search.html?searchPhrase=$ 
Disallow: /*search.html?pageOffset 
Disallow: /*previousThread.html 
Disallow: /*createThread.html 
Disallow: /*emailArticle.html$ 
Disallow: /*nextThread.html 
Disallow: /*readLater.html$ 
Disallow: /*myStories.html$ 
Disallow: /*search.html?s=y&authornamef= 
Disallow: /*logout?redirectPath= 
Disallow: /*login?redirectPath= 
Disallow: /*createThread.html 
Disallow: /*refer_product.php? 
Disallow: /*startIndex= 
Disallow: /*?pageSize 
Disallow: /*?start= 
Disallow: /SITE=DM/ 
Disallow: /js 
Disallow: /*debateUserSearch.html 
Disallow: /*debateSearchResults.html 
Disallow: /*debateTagSearch.html 
Disallow: /*textbased/channel 
Disallow: /*goto.php? 
Disallow: /*?printingPage=true$ 
Disallow: */chat/*

#
User-agent: archive-it.org
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: ArchiveBot
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
User-agent: Authory
User-agent: babel
User-agent: bl.uk_ldfc_bot
User-agent: bl.uk_ldfc_renderbot
User-agent: bne.es_bot
User-agent: bnf.fr_bot
User-agent: ecoresearch
User-agent: ecoresearchCrawler
User-agent: Europarchive.org
User-agent: kb.dk_bot
User-agent: Kulturarw3
User-agent: LivelapBot
User-agent: mediacloud
User-agent: mirrorweb
User-agent: MSIECrawler
User-agent: nationalarchives.gov.uk
User-agent: netarkivet.dk
User-agent: netEstate NE Crawler
User-agent: Nicecrawler
User-agent: nl-israel_iaharvester2026
User-agent: nlnbot
User-agent: nlncrawler
User-agent: PageFreezer
User-agent: SafeDNS
User-agent: SmarshBot
User-agent: special_archiver
User-agent: tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
User-agent: TurnitinBot
User-agent: webarchiv.cz
User-agent: WordPress.com mShots
User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance-Archiver
User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance-Crawler
Disallow: /

# Meltwater block 
User-agent: Meltwater  
Disallow: /  
# Begin standard rules 

# Allowing bot 
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google 
Disallow:

#
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: amazon-kendra-
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: EchoboxBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Grok
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KunatoCrawler
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: Meltwater
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: OAI-Operator
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Seekr
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: WARDBot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: wpbot
User-agent: WRTNBot
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /buyline/
Disallow: /
#
# Sitemap files 
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/newssitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-articles-year~2020.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-articles-year~2021.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-facts-year~2020.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-facts-year~2021.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-videos-year~2020.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-videos-year~2021.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-articles-year~2022.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-facts-year~2022.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-videos-year~2022.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-articles-year~2023.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-articles-year~2024.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-articles-year~2025.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-facts-year~2023.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-facts-year~2024.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-facts-year~2025.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-videos-year~2023.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-videos-year~2024.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-videos-year~2026.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-videos-year~2026.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sitemap-facts-year~2026.xml

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 1 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/newssitema...

A+

URL Variants

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

PASS

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

HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

403https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/

200https://thisismoney.co.uk/

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://thisismoney.co.uk/ → https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/

Consistent

A+

Domain Intelligence

thisismoney.co.uk — via Nom-IQ Limited t/a Com Laude [Tag = NOMIQ], 28 years old

PASS

thisismoney.co.uk — via Nom-IQ Limited t/a Com Laude [Tag = NOMIQ], 28 years old

Domain registered until Aug 19, 2028 (2 years, 4 months remaining)

Registrar: Nom-IQ Limited t/a Com Laude [Tag = NOMIQ]

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

767 days

August 19, 2028

SSL certificate

34 days

Issued by DigiCert Inc

Domain age

28 years

Registered August 19, 1998

DNSSEC

Status unknown

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Unknown

2a02:26f0:2380:29d::16c4

Registrar

Nom-IQ Limited t/a Com Laude [Tag = NOMIQ]

Unlocked 6 NS records

Expiry timeline

Today

+1 year

Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)

Recommended actions

Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers

Registrar Nom-IQ Limited t/a Com Laude [Tag = NOMIQ]

Created August 19, 1998 (28 years ago)

Expires August 19, 2028 (2 years, 4 months)

Last Updated February 15, 2019

Name Servers a1-204.akam.net, a16-67.akam.net, a24-65.akam.net, a4-67.akam.net, a6-64.akam.net, a7-66.akam.net

Hosting

IP Address 2a02:26f0:2380:29d::16c4

Data source: whois (0.6s)

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+

HTTP Probe Timing

Total 54 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

PASS

DNS Lookup

45 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

7 ms

Time to First Byte

55 ms

Total Time

55 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 45 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 7 ms Server Processing 2 ms Content Transfer 0 ms

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