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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
1
REVIEW
3
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 3 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.

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.sfexaminer.com/
200https://sfexaminer.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://sfexaminer.com/ https://www.sfexaminer.com/

Consistent

B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
48 days until leaf cert expires — 4 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

48
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • 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, 56 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 56 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 192.104.182.109
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
No NS records found
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: 56 ms
Got: 56 ms
A192.104.182.109
AAAA
CNAME
NS
MX
10 aspmx.l.google.com
20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
30 aspmx3.googlemail.com
30 aspmx2.googlemail.com
TXT
e39nj0aonll32eu2vmbb74cisv
google-site-verification=4rUwWDQ4M6E-c7gFRL49Gtdcd2FMr1EubOjPdo0vUC0
SPF v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.google.com ~all
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 56 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), 754 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 754 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://sfexaminer.com → https://www.sfexaminer.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect
Info::
Redirect overhead: 754 ms total
Got: 754 ms

https://sfexaminer.com

344 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.sfexaminer.com/

410 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://sfexaminer.com301344 msHTTP/1.1
2https://www.sfexaminer.com/200410 msHTTP/1.1

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 5 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 5 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 4129 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 5 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 5 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 4129 B Sitemaps referenced 25 User-agents ClaudeBot, FacebookBot, ImagesiftBot, anthropic-ai, omgilibot, *, AI2Bot, Claude-Web, Scrapy, Diffbot, FriendlyCrawler, Meta-ExternalAgent, cohere-ai, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, PetalBot, Webzio-Extended, CCBot, Timpibot, YouBot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, omgili, iaskspider/2.0, img2dataset, Bytespider, Google-Extended, ICC-Crawler, VelenPublicWebCrawler, Applebot-Extended Blocking No — crawling allowed
User-agent: AI2Bot

Disallow: /


User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma

Disallow: /


User-agent: Applebot-Extended

Disallow: /


User-agent: Bytespider

Disallow: /


User-agent: CCBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: ChatGPT-User

Disallow: /


User-agent: Claude-Web

Disallow: /


User-agent: ClaudeBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: Diffbot

Disallow: /


User-agent: FacebookBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: FriendlyCrawler

Disallow: /


User-agent: GPTBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: Google-Extended

Disallow: /


User-agent: ICC-Crawler

Disallow: /


User-agent: ImagesiftBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent

Disallow: /


User-agent: OAI-SearchBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: PerplexityBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: PetalBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: Scrapy

Disallow: /


User-agent: Timpibot

Disallow: /


User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler

Disallow: /


User-agent: Webzio-Extended

Disallow: /


User-agent: YouBot

Disallow: /


User-agent: anthropic-ai

Disallow: /


User-agent: cohere-ai

Disallow: /


User-agent: iaskspider/2.0

Disallow: /


User-agent: img2dataset

Disallow: /


User-agent: omgili

Disallow: /


User-agent: omgilibot

Disallow: /


User-agent: *

Disallow: /tncms/tracking/

Disallow: /_services/

Disallow: /newsletter/archive/

Disallow: /newsletter/archive/exearth/

Disallow: /newsletter/archive/extech/

Disallow: /newsletter/optimize/reporters/

Disallow: /newsletter/optimize/reporters/ex_earth/

Disallow: /social/

Disallow: /social/our_partners/

Disallow: /special_section/bewell/

Disallow: /tncms/openid2/

Disallow: /tncms/track/

Disallow: /tncms/counter/

Disallow: /tncms/dmp/

Disallow: /tncms/weather/

Disallow: /tncms/media/

Disallow: /tncms/webservice/

Disallow: /tncms/auth/

Disallow: /tncms/block/

Disallow: /tncms/csrf/

Disallow: /tncms/messaging/

Disallow: /tncms/admin/

Disallow: /tncms/gtm/

Disallow: /tncms/tax/

Disallow: /tncms/openweb/*

Disallow: /tncms/search/

Disallow: /classifieds/*?

Disallow: /tncms/disqus/

Disallow: /content/tncms/assets/v3/form/

Disallow: /content/tncms/form/

Disallow: /tncms/calendar/

Disallow: /calendar/search/

Disallow: /tncms/user/

Disallow: /users/admin/

Disallow: /users/*/?

Disallow: /content/tncms/

Disallow: /marketplace/*action=srch


Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=1900

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2000

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2002

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2006

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2007

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2008

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2009

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2010

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2011

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2012

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2013

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2014

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2015

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2016

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2017

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2018

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2019

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2020

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2021

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2022

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2023

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2024

Sitemap: https://www.sfexaminer.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=2025


A+
Domain Intelligence
sfexaminer.com — via GoDaddy.com, LLC, 28 years old, hosted on LEE-ASN - Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, US
PASS
sfexaminer.com — via GoDaddy.com, LLC, 28 years old, hosted on LEE-ASN - Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, US
Info::
Domain registered until Sep 9, 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: GoDaddy.com, 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: LEE-ASN - Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, US
Got: AS10668
Domain expiry

87 days

September 9, 2026

SSL certificate

48 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

28 years

Registered September 10, 1998

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

LEE-ASN - Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, US

ASN AS10668

192.104.182.109

Registrar

GoDaddy.com, LLC

Unlocked 2 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 GoDaddy.com, LLC
Created September 10, 1998 (28 years ago)
Expires September 9, 2026 (4 months)
Last Updated September 9, 2025
Name Servers pdns11.domaincontrol.com, pdns12.domaincontrol.com
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 192.104.182.109
ASN AS10668 (LEE-ASN - Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, US)
Provider LEE-ASN - Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, US
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

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

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 56 ms TCP Connect 120 ms TLS Handshake 122 ms Server Processing 122 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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