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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
3
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Amsterdam, Netherlands
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 3 REVIEW 1 FIX
D
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
Action
11 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
FIX

Certificate validity

11
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+
Renew urgently — under 14 days remaining

Recommended actions

  • Renew certificate — 11 days remaining
  • Enable HSTS: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
  • Enable OCSP stapling on your TLS server to remove a CA roundtrip and protect user privacy
B
DNS Records
1 A records, 16 ms lookup
REVIEW
1 A records, 16 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 151.101.207.52
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Warning::
CNAME record at zone apex
A CNAME at the zone apex can break MX and NS records. Use ALIAS/ANAME or A records instead.
Got: t.sni.global.fastly.net
Info::
No NS records found
Info::
No MX records — email not configured via DNS
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'.
Info::
DNS resolution time: 16 ms
Got: 16 ms
A151.101.207.52
AAAA—
CNAMEt.sni.global.fastly.net
NS—
MX—
TXT—
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 16 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.

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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

A CNAME at the zone apex can break MX and NS records. Use ALIAS/ANAME or A records instead.

Why this matters

CNAME at the apex (example.com) breaks every other apex record (MX, TXT, NS) — DNS-protocol violation per RFC 1034.

Learn more ▾

RFC 1034 forbids CNAME alongside other records at the same name. Some DNS providers offer ALIAS / ANAME / flattened-CNAME records that work around this — use those instead. Otherwise apex-level CNAME breaks email (no MX), domain ownership verification (no TXT), and more.

Source: RFC 1034

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)

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.time.com/
200https://time.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://www.time.com/ → https://time.com/

Consistent

A
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 37 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 37 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://www.time.com → https://time.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://www.time.com

19 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://time.com/

18 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://www.time.com30119 msHTTP/1.1Varnish
2https://time.com/20018 msHTTP/1.1

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 5429 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 5429 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 2220 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 5429 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 5429 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 2220 B Sitemaps referenced 7 User-agents *, Googlebot Blocking No — crawling allowed
User-Agent: *
Allow: /

User-Agent: Googlebot
Allow: /replatform/_next/image*
Disallow: /?search*
Disallow: /*?pano=*
Disallow: */munich/index_html*
Disallow: /*?__rmid___get___page
Disallow: /*?*__hsfp
Disallow: /*?*__hstc
Disallow: /*?*__rmid
Disallow: /*?*__rmidpage
Disallow: /*?*/*ref
Disallow: /*?*002/*0902
Disallow: /*?*2&hubs_content
Disallow: /*?*ajs_event
Disallow: /*?*app
Disallow: /*?*attachment_id
Disallow: /*?*author
Disallow: /*?*bcpid
Disallow: /*?*bcpidpage
Disallow: /*?*cat
Disallow: /*?*controlsVisibleOnLoad
Disallow: /*?*country
Disallow: /*?*curator
Disallow: /*?*edition
Disallow: /*?*egotecpage
Disallow: /*?*fbclid
Disallow: /*?*hl
Disallow: /*?*hsCtaTracking
Disallow: /*?*hubs_signup-cta
Disallow: /*?*iframe
Disallow: /*?*iid
Disallow: /*?*industry
Disallow: /*?*inline-read-more
Disallow: /*?*kwp_4
Disallow: /*?*library
Disallow: /*?*limit
Disallow: /*?*linkId
Disallow: /*?*luicode
Disallow: /*?*offset
Disallow: /*?*omnil
Disallow: /*?*onwardjourney
Disallow: /*?*origin
Disallow: /*?*page
Disallow: /*?*PageSpeed
Disallow: /*?*plan
Disallow: /*?*poy-poll
Disallow: /*?*ref
Disallow: /*?*reviews_page
Disallow: /*?*scrape
Disallow: /*?*scriptPath
Disallow: /*?*source
Disallow: /*?*sr_source
Disallow: /*?*subscription
Disallow: /*?*ua
Disallow: /*?*utm
Disallow: /*?*utm_campaign
Disallow: /*?*utm_medium
Disallow: /*?*utm_source
Disallow: /*?*xid
Disallow: /*?bclid=
Disallow: /*?bcpid=
Disallow: /*?bctid=
Disallow: /*?EGOTECpage
Disallow: /*?hc_location
Disallow: /*?pagespeed
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*?ref=binfind.com
Disallow: /*?sa=
Disallow: /*?search
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /nextadvisor/search/*
Disallow: /page/*/?a_aid=
Disallow: /page/*/?egotecpage
Disallow: /page/*/?hc_location=
Disallow: /page/*/?iq_id=
Disallow: /page/*/?pcd=
Disallow: /page/*/?search=
Disallow: /search/?q=*
Disallow: /time_tout/*
Disallow: /uncategorized
Disallow: /time_cover_hub

Sitemap: https://time.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://time.com/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://time.com/video-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://time.com/coupons/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://time.com/archive-sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://time.com/sitemap-sections.xml
Sitemap: https://time.com/sitemap-tags.xml
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 5429 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A+
Domain Intelligence
time.com — via MarkMonitor Inc., 32 years, 10 months old, hosted on Fastly
PASS
time.com — via MarkMonitor Inc., 32 years, 10 months old, hosted on Fastly
Info::
Domain registered until Nov 18, 2026 (7 months remaining)
Info::
DNSSEC is enabled
Info::
Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc.
Info::
Hosting: Fastly
Got: AS54113
Domain expiry

157 days

November 18, 2026

SSL certificate

11 days

Issued by Certainly

Domain age

32 years, 10 months

Registered November 19, 1993

DNSSEC

Enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Fastly

ASN AS54113

151.101.131.52

Registrar

MarkMonitor Inc.

Lock status unknown 4 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Recommended actions
  • Renew the TLS certificate or verify auto-renewal is working
Registrar MarkMonitor Inc.
Created November 19, 1993 (32 years, 10 months ago)
Expires November 18, 2026 (7 months)
Last Updated October 17, 2024
Name Servers dns1.p08.nsone.net, dns2.p08.nsone.net, dns3.p08.nsone.net, dns4.p08.nsone.net
DNSSEC Enabled
Hosting
IP Address 151.101.131.52
ASN AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)
Provider Fastly
Data source: rdap (0.7s)
A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 16 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
7 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
1 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
8 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
17 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
17 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 7 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 8 ms Server Processing 1 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
A+
CDN & Delivery
Fastly (HIT)
PASS
Fastly (HIT)
Info::
Site is served via Fastly CDN
Got: x-served-by: cache-rtm-ehrd2290025-RTM
Info::
CDN cache status: HIT
CDN Detected: Fastly
Provider Fastly Cache Status HIT Evidence x-served-by: cache-rtm-ehrd2290025-RTM
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