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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
85
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
3
PASS
6
INFO
0
Probed from Singapore, Singapore
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.theglobeandmail.com/
200https://theglobeandmail.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

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

Certificate validity

93
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
A
DNS Records
4 A records, 394 ms lookup
PASS
4 A records, 394 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 4 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 13.226.2.110, 13.226.2.47, 13.226.2.89, 13.226.2.36
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
4 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns-1360.awsdns-42.org, ns-1735.awsdns-24.co.uk, ns-83.awsdns-10.com, ns-879.awsdns-45.net
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::
No SPF record found in TXT records
SPF helps prevent email spoofing. Add a TXT record starting with 'v=spf1'.
Warning::
DNS resolution is slow (394 ms)
Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider.
Got: 394 ms
A13.226.2.110, 13.226.2.47, 13.226.2.89, 13.226.2.36
AAAA—
CNAME—
NSns-1360.awsdns-42.org, ns-1735.awsdns-24.co.uk, ns-83.awsdns-10.com, ns-879.awsdns-45.net
MX
0 theglobeandmail-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT
6gkfshf5ypx2wrxnsp4423b9hgmgjdts
MS=ms69832701
_6bgtba2maddeiojjgx9grlya3xl6ztm
_e0s5bmeg7af5bhu59q5bldrzs9583sd
facebook-domain-verification=vyvhgyjf7h5w5m4x0n1h9yo6tb9u4e
google-site-verification=JbYafuhokuYPG9fdhI9_cp72T-gzJb0SdY12egIim2s
google-site-verification=LIEWlsRXAqltXzbQPSMrb0WtpeSjYyzOuReLti6oJ0Q
google-site-verification=MMVxMHg6IBbku4rU92fAm6GtTQg9Kku9Hb9KzOpw248
google-site-verification=WIcJqh1zq8kpe2QWckfMgKZl2iUmUzjng720S6oE-2I
google-site-verification=XRP2v9gJXiZQZ9UUXtqplx_Ml0OqsvPr2weECoq8ghY
google-site-verification=jPu9xKKc8GXg2h7A7c3B69t1o8NFRXrltLV-iYmHWpI
google-site-verification=necbf0FNwI_u4-2OhMaqKl8SzdIVjD8KYu7BWhl40h0
google-site-verification=q-uVhRmlAwvdTD6ZK5G-oqkWRzAgX5RuT844O8lm70A
pinterest-site-verification=c721ac3400ab64737f9e5d6408992d07
tollbit-domain-verification=23d1181a7606245c6d412b03778ed7a1573ffc7e4b8217f07489...
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 394 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.

SPF helps prevent email spoofing. Add a TXT record starting with 'v=spf1'.

Why this matters

Without SPF, receiving servers can't validate sending IPs — your domain is easier to spoof in phishing.

Learn more ▾

SPF complements DMARC. Both should be published. SPF records list authorized sending IPs (e.g., `v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all` for Google Workspace). After publishing, verify in Google Postmaster Tools or mxtoolbox.

Source: RFC 7208 (SPF)

Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider.

Why this matters

DNS resolution is slow — anycast DNS providers (Cloudflare, Route 53) typically resolve <50ms globally.

Source: DNS performance benchmarks

A
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 768 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 768 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://theglobeandmail.com → https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect
Info::
Redirect overhead: 768 ms total
Got: 768 ms

https://theglobeandmail.com

691 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/

76 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://theglobeandmail.com301691 msHTTP/1.1AmazonS3
2https://www.theglobeandmail.com/20076 msHTTP/1.1openresty

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 3 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 3 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 7529 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 3 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 3 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 7529 B Sitemaps referenced 1 User-agents Google-NotebookLM, Heritrix, IbouBot, Kangaroo Bot, Meltwater, AI2Bot-Dolma, Cloudflare-AutoRAG, Linguee Bot, Panscient, Poggio-Citations, PressEngineBot, Scrapy, Slurp, Anthropic-ai, bigsur.ai, DuckAssistBot, news-api.org, OTMedia, TerraCotta, Timpibot/0.9, archive.org_bot, ChatGLM-Spider, ChatGPT Agent, GoogleOther, KunatoCrawler, scpitspi-rs, SeekrBot, AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval, Amzn-User, Brandwatch, ChatGPT-User, Devin, Manus-User, omgili, Operator, Channel3Bot, Google-CloudVertexBot, MyCentralAIScraperBot, Perplexity, QualifiedBot, scoopit, Squidbot/1.0, cohere-training-data-crawler, EchoboxBot, GoogleOther-Image, ICC-Crawler, img2dataset, openai, Opoint, PanguBot, AddSearchBot, aiHitBot, carbon-umbrella-bot/1.0, LinkupBot/1.0, netEstate, SBIntuitionsBot, SentiBot, Anomura, LinkupBot, quillbot.com, ErisBot, ImagesiftBot, OAI-SearchBot, Qwantbot, Squidbot, Gemini-Deep-Research, mediatoolkit.com, MistralAI-User, Observer/1.0 (obsrvr.net), PhindBot, FriendlyCrawler, QuillBot, Thinkbot, Tor, webzio, AhrefsBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-Web, LCC, OpenAI, WRTNBot, LAIONDownloader, omgilibot, Perplexity-User, TurnitinBot, Bravebot, FirecrawlAgent, ia_archiver, peer39_crawler, Amazonbot, CloudVertexBot, GoogleAgent-Mariner, YaK, AmazonAdBot, AI2Bot, Bytespider, DeepSeekBot, Meta-ExternalFetcher, netEstate Imprint Crawler, panscient.com, AmazonBuyForMe, amazon-kendra, BLEXBot, ViennaTinyBot, wpbot, AdsBot-Google, Crawlspace, GnowitNewsbot, Info2424.info, meta-externalagent, PerplexityBot, TavilyBot, WARDBot, Cision, peer39_crawler/1.0, PetalBot, Poseidon Research Crawler, SeznamHomepageCrawler, VelenPublicWebCrawler, YouBot, AudigentAdBot, iaskspider/2.0, magpie-crawler, news-please, Googlebot-News, BaiduSpider, Crawl4AI, laion-huggingface-processor, cohere-ai, Cotoyogi, Factset_spyderbot, linkfluence, meta-webindexer, NotebookLM, Sidetrade indexer bot, Timpibot, CCBot, Muckrack, ZanistaBot, Datenbank Crawler, GoogleOther-Video, Grok, imageSpider, KlaviyoAIBot, meta-externalfetcher, Quora-Bot, SemrushBot-SWA, bedrockbot, fiperbot/0.1, GPTBot, MistralAI-User/1.0, YandexAdditionalBot, Amzn-SearchBot, Google-Extended, iAskBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Spider, trendictionbot, AwarioSmartBot, *, Archive-It, Imprint (netEstate Imprint Crawler), NovaAct, ClaudeBot, ISSCyberRiskCrawler, Sindup, Awario, Diffbot, NewsNow, TaraGroup Intelligent Bot, Claude-User, Gnowit, semantic-visions.com, ShapBot, Webzio-Extended, atlassian-bot, AwarioRssBot, Brightbot 1.0, Deepseek, LinerBot, TwinAgent, AliyunSecBot, Andibot, DataForSeoBot Blocking No — crawling allowed
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /incoming/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /partners/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /business/adv/appointmentnotices/search/
Disallow: /gift/

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /incoming/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /business/adv/appointmentnotices/search/
Disallow: /gift/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /incoming/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /business/adv/appointmentnotices/search/
Disallow: /marketing-containers/
Disallow: /coupons/
Disallow: /files/advertising/
Disallow: /gift/

User-agent: AddSearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: aiHitBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
Disallow: /

User-agent: amazon-kendra
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amzn-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Andibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Anomura
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Archive-It
Disallow: /

User-agent: atlassian-bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AudigentAdBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Awario
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BaiduSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: bedrockbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: bigsur.ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brandwatch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bravebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: carbon-umbrella-bot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Channel3Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cision
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawl4AI
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawlspace
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Deepseek
Disallow: /

User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ErisBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: fiperbot/0.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
Disallow: /

User-agent: Gnowit
Disallow: /

User-agent: GnowitNewsbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Grok
Disallow: /

User-agent: Heritrix
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: iAskBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: IbouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

User-agent: Imprint (netEstate Imprint Crawler)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Info2424.info
Disallow: /

User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: KunatoCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: LAIONDownloader
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: LCC
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Linguee Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: linkfluence
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkupBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkupBot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Manus-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: mediatoolkit.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meltwater
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-webindexer
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Muckrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-api.org
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /

User-agent: NotebookLM
Disallow: /

User-agent: NovaAct
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Observer/1.0 (obsrvr.net)
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: openai
Disallow: /

User-agent: OpenAI
Disallow: /

User-agent: Operator
Disallow: /

User-agent: Opoint
Disallow: /

User-agent: OTMedia
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Panscient
Disallow: /

User-agent: panscient.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poggio-Citations
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: PressEngineBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: QualifiedBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: QuillBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: quillbot.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Qwantbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: scoopit
Disallow: /

User-agent: scpitspi-rs
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: semantic-visions.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /

User-agent: SentiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ShapBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sindup
Disallow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /

User-agent: Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Squidbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Squidbot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TavilyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TerraCotta
Disallow: /

User-agent: Thinkbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot/0.9
Disallow: /

User-agent: Tor
Disallow: /

User-agent: trendictionbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TwinAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ViennaTinyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: webzio
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: wpbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WRTNBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YaK
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZanistaBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sitemap.xml?outputType=xml
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 3 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A+
Domain Intelligence
theglobeandmail.com — via Webnames.ca Inc., 31 years old, hosted on AWS
PASS
theglobeandmail.com — via Webnames.ca Inc., 31 years old, hosted on AWS
Info::
Domain registered until Sep 17, 2026 (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: Webnames.ca Inc.
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: AWS
Got: AS16509
Domain expiry

64 days

September 17, 2026

SSL certificate

93 days

Issued by Amazon

Domain age

31 years

Registered September 18, 1995

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

AWS

ASN AS16509

3.174.255.104

Registrar

Webnames.ca Inc.

Unlocked 4 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Recommended actions
  • Renew the domain or enable auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiry
  • Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
  • Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers
Registrar Webnames.ca Inc.
Created September 18, 1995 (31 years ago)
Expires September 17, 2026 (4 months)
Last Updated April 20, 2026
Name Servers ns-1360.awsdns-42.org, ns-1735.awsdns-24.co.uk, ns-83.awsdns-10.com, ns-879.awsdns-45.net
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 3.174.255.104
ASN AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
Provider AWS
Data source: rdap (0.6s)

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

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 2 ms TCP Connect 139 ms TLS Handshake 143 ms Server Processing 142 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
A+
CDN & Delivery
AWS CloudFront (Hit from cloudfront)
PASS
AWS CloudFront (Hit from cloudfront)
Info::
Site is served via AWS CloudFront CDN (edge: MRS53-P3)
Got: x-amz-cf-id: YTqP9VRqvR0ykqGihoc76WBSW2EnVtGC4aHq1ITbMHFAKsMAEw8EBg==
Info::
CDN cache status: Hit from cloudfront
CDN Detected: AWS CloudFront
Provider AWS CloudFront Cache Status Hit from cloudfront Evidence x-amz-cf-id: YTqP9VRqvR0ykqGihoc76WBSW2EnVtGC4aHq1ITbMHFAKsMAEw8EBg==
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