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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
83
GRADE
B
FIX
1
REVIEW
4
PASS
4
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
4 PASS 4 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.

B
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 1231 ms total
REVIEW
1 redirect(s), 1231 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://bostonherald.com → https://www.bostonherald.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect
Warning::
Redirect overhead: 1231 ms total
Got: 1231 ms

https://bostonherald.com

5 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.bostonherald.com/

1226 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://bostonherald.com3015 msHTTP/1.1nginx
2https://www.bostonherald.com/2001226 msHTTP/1.1nginx

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

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.bostonherald.com/
200https://bostonherald.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://bostonherald.com/ https://bostonherald.com/

Consistent

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

Certificate validity

80
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • 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, 93 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 93 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 192.0.66.2
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
4 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns-1671.awsdns-16.co.uk, ns-442.awsdns-55.com, ns-1284.awsdns-32.org, ns-560.awsdns-06.net
Info::
5 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: 93 ms
Got: 93 ms
A192.0.66.2
AAAA
CNAME
NSns-1671.awsdns-16.co.uk, ns-442.awsdns-55.com, ns-1284.awsdns-32.org, ns-560.awsdns-06.net
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
10 aspmx3.googlemail.com
10 aspmx2.googlemail.com
TXT
k1f6d3u4rfoq2mtthlc2342pec
da5u0pnnni3vdpidmpdqa9gr47
google-site-verification=rlrpckrduV71g0stKuRh9CvmhvNTG6v0s0l1UBrMkZc
l33i9ps6uk6nrl89kmadg4ms3d
knowbe4-site-verification=a9ce6449edf2d51c41eed1f3517d26f9
MS=ms21250230
jfdqhph4a6a54ncg42nmbu76mq
google-site-verification=Zqn7EGKyN7Y0JJ-QJJXxc6LjGVR6e7lmezMi7Ufi1RE
_globalsign-domain-verification=O81xyb7YxpdGeHWkniit_VBT4vTXz9__NFrNMoTwFg
a9013qb3gu938gm4tm2gu38bmm
cc8m79fek565srp0t8n2ul6gao
tollbit-domain-verification=51bbc1c7d387d5298356058e8a1f328a81ec606aaee0664c6542...
11d79fi8pjm1nav7fdd6elvgao
mmtu7tjdac6nlqf55pomh3jsligr099ncutm05acs8osr5os84u2
llib6qvjasng0m5c7562bvdl78
aslt820givt06ua5qjmkutdm4b
ca3-c607b2cf0846448ba5720feb55d26f82
google-site-verification=E5l3r3nZw9-UXb6oKYryML7tgY21_zJMhZIsCegUhpY
ospjbbu0ev5n4h3o9t5hkn0f4m
globalsign-domain-verification=273eFvKCuCXR3P_oKS85yffiPwBPz0qc1fEV1-x8Aq
SPF v=spf1 mx ip4:54.235.217.16 ip4:204.137.12.0/24 ip4:209.166.154.206 include:_spf...
uqnitusg0scqhg3ts7mrv2s2rj
MS=086F64F04387D9E1068D1435CFC881F3E9225BC6
mt-68081482
fastly-domain-delegation-9nsahenmm4tc7tun301132-10222020
17vm7b9n6t7l4r697abed5mt5j
facebook-domain-verification=hq96wjcdmhg1tk04cbn4oskwav25ms
_globalsign-domain-verification=0TyIZcbLmgSwoVohQ9GWaLbZq22eAkpviTlcN7JXo3
kfp69nllfvshhafsbljbfme44i
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 93 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+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 7303 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 7303 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 4248 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 7303 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 7303 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 4248 B Sitemaps referenced 1 User-agents Mantisbot, MistralAI-User, PanguBot, *, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Bytespider, Claude-User, Kangaroo Bot, LCC, Timpibot, Twitterbot, ClaudeBot, grok-crawler, imageSpider, facebookexternalhit, Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NewsRoom.BI/0.1; +http://www.newsroom.bi/bot.html), OAI-SearchBot, VelenPublicWebCrawler, Applebot-Extended, DocSpotBot, laion-huggingface-processor, Meta-ExternalAgent, omgili, ia_archiver-web.archive.org, Vivaldi, Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EchoboxBot/1.0; hash/w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw; +http://www.echobox.com), Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0), AI2Bot, PerplexityBot, PetalBot, SirdataBot, Amazonbot, Baiduspider, Diffbot, grapeshot, Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Jukebox/1.0), Archive.org_bot, GPTBot, Datenbank Crawler, Spider, carbon-umbrella-bot, Claude-Web, ICC-Crawler, FacebookBot, GnowitNewsbot, Perplexity-User, Webzio-extended, Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0), Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Marshall/1.0), netEstate Imprint Crawler, CCBot, Dalvik, DuckAssistBot, SBIntuitionsBot, anthropic-ai, Brightbot 1.0, Cotoyogi, ChatGPT-User, Claude-Searchbot, Google-Extended, Thinkbot, YandexBot, AmazonAdBot, Cohere-training-data-crawler Blocking No — crawling allowed
# Our Content is made available for your personal, non-commercial use subject to our Terms of Service here: https://www.medianewsgroup.com/terms-of-use/
# Any other uses are prohibited, including but not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining activities under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market;
# (2) use of any Content or information available on the Site for purposes of retrieval augmented generation, grounding, training, or development of machine learning models, algorithms, or artificial intelligence (AI) systems, or to generate substitute content or develop any products, services, or technology;
# (3) caching or archiving the Content; and/or
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact us at https://www.bostonherald.com/contact-us/ for assistance.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
Disallow: /

User-Agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: carbon-umbrella-bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Searchbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Dalvik
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DocSpotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GnowitNewsbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: grok-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
Disallow: /

User-agent: LCC
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mantisbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SirdataBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Thinkbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Vivaldi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Disallow:

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow:

User-agent: grapeshot
Disallow:

User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EchoboxBot/1.0; hash/w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw; +http://www.echobox.com)
Disallow:

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:

User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NewsRoom.BI/0.1; +http://www.newsroom.bi/bot.html)
Allow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0)
Allow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Booldog/1.0)
Allow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Marshall/1.0)
Allow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA51N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; mrfCompass-Jukebox/1.0)
Allow: /
# Sitemap archive
Sitemap: https://www.bostonherald.com/sitemap.xml


sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 7303 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A+
Domain Intelligence
bostonherald.com — via Network Solutions, LLC, 31 years, 4 months old, hosted on WordPress.com (Automattic)
PASS
bostonherald.com — via Network Solutions, LLC, 31 years, 4 months old, hosted on WordPress.com (Automattic)
Info::
Domain registered until May 19, 2029 (3 years, 1 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: Network Solutions, LLC
Warning::
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.
Info::
Hosting: WordPress.com (Automattic)
Got: AS2635
Domain expiry

1070 days

May 19, 2029

SSL certificate

80 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

31 years, 4 months

Registered May 18, 1995

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

WordPress.com (Automattic)

ASN AS2635

192.0.66.2

Registrar

Network Solutions, LLC

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 Network Solutions, LLC
Created May 18, 1995 (31 years, 4 months ago)
Expires May 19, 2029 (3 years, 1 months)
Last Updated March 23, 2023
Name Servers ns-1284.awsdns-32.org, ns-1671.awsdns-16.co.uk, ns-442.awsdns-55.com, ns-560.awsdns-06.net
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 192.0.66.2
ASN AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)
Provider WordPress.com (Automattic)
Data source: rdap (0.2s)

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
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 798 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
46 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
0 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
3 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
799 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
799 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 46 ms TCP Connect 0 ms TLS Handshake 3 ms Server Processing 749 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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