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Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
94
GRADE
A
FIX
0
REVIEW
3
PASS
6
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
6 PASS 3 REVIEW
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.politico.eu/
200https://politico.eu/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://politico.eu/ → https://www.politico.eu/

Consistent

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

Certificate validity

79
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
B
CDN & Delivery
Cloudflare
REVIEW
Cloudflare
Info::
Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: CDG)
Got: cf-ray: 9efeec78db506fdc-CDG
CDN Detected: Cloudflare
Provider Cloudflare Evidence cf-ray: 9efeec78db506fdc-CDG
A+
DNS Records
2 A records, 131 ms lookup
PASS
2 A records, 131 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 104.18.20.20, 104.18.21.20
Info::
Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)
Got: 2606:4700::6812:1414, 2606:4700::6812:1514
Info::
2 nameserver(s) configured
Got: cruz.ns.cloudflare.com, lars.ns.cloudflare.com
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::
SPF record present in TXT
Info::
DNS resolution time: 131 ms
Got: 131 ms
A104.18.20.20, 104.18.21.20
AAAA2606:4700::6812:1414, 2606:4700::6812:1514
CNAME—
NScruz.ns.cloudflare.com, lars.ns.cloudflare.com
MX
10 mx01.politico.eu
TXT
adobe-idp-site-verification=4f750abf8795bb604b0e0dd686732d076d93803445050a2835a9...
openai-domain-verification=dv-RGb1luy3eKjvjuzE4R2mlsOd
knowbe4-site-verification=290a0856e73ce1af26ec3d0cba91643d
anthropic-domain-verification-dmxjq4=TYxP8a1JPRsfQ9FIV2Oo31IPU
facebook-domain-verification=9bdgtf0u932s92nce9jezzfsfjwjg2
google-site-verification=TdIZnXr62Ecez0IO9sv_a93-tvAsvsZH4HneyGLa7ps
notion-domain-verification=XZun19MRvhpTvTQmDXxkS6HUxAadQewxOeiZXc8zJFA
google-site-verification=NS-nKq6Q1pvoluLEgbnG2vP-DcDawEz6_BoJFi3vYgI
figma-domain-verification=7b8a7dfe0976288c515701c2618d56afedb6fda8c3399c4d77d7fa...
google-site-verification=WGL0jQiSShhrpNJcmW4pU2gBEhpv3qXzUnOv44WPjbI
BSI216928894827
wiz-domain-verification=43fab5c33d334c2e156e520ed9064288a3aadcf8f32d2ea1e2060391...
elevenlabs=PXawT_N9Io0MMiOigmCmKr4r7FYqefvKEgddZBvCwgY
SPF v=spf1 ip4:85.119.217.105/29 ip4:81.246.20.201 ip4:87.238.231.93 ip4:50.31.58.23...
MS=ms98950248
amazonses:31I00aKP49fgKVs8ak70VjzR1teZVI2ReKbfW+EtlLM=
amazonses:UmXWGxgDwhJGcRM00PIbVMgWNG787AxEgkPiAwJBcW8=
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 131 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.

A
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 176 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 176 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://politico.eu → https://www.politico.eu/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://politico.eu

60 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.politico.eu/

116 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://politico.eu30160 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare
2https://www.politico.eu/200116 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
IPv6 Readiness
IPv6 reachable (17 ms)
PASS
IPv6 reachable (17 ms)
Info::
IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2606:4700::6812:1414, 2606:4700::6812:1514
Got: 17 ms connect
IPv6 Ready
AAAA Records 2606:4700::6812:1414, 2606:4700::6812:1514 Connection Reachable (17 ms)
A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 40 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 40 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 3921 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 40 entries
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 3921 B Sitemaps referenced 2 User-agents Sidetrade indexer bot, aiHitBot, Awario, bedrockbot, bigsur.ai, CCBot, Claude-Web, FirecrawlAgent, quillbot.com, iaskspider/2.0, LinerBot, Andibot, Claude-User, ClaudeBot, DuckAssistBot, GoogleOther-Video, PanguBot, Kangaroo Bot, CloudVertexBot, EchoboxBot, MyCentralAIScraperBot, Perplexity-User, TikTokSpider, VelenPublicWebCrawler, ImagesiftBot, Brightbot 1.0, Bytespider, Diffbot, omgilibot, YandexAdditionalBot, *, FacebookBot, facebookexternalhit, meta-externalagent, NovaAct, panscient.com, YandexAdditional, anthropic-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler, Cotoyogi, Gemini-Deep-Research, meta-externalfetcher, netEstate Imprint Crawler, QualifiedBot, Panscient, PerplexityBot, SemrushBot-OCOB, WARDBot, Webzio-Extended, Applebot, ISSCyberRiskCrawler, SBIntuitionsBot, ICC-Crawler, AddSearchBot, Amazonbot, Datenbank Crawler, GoogleOther, GoogleOther-Image, GPTBot, wpbot, AI2Bot, ChatGPT-User, FriendlyCrawler, PhindBot, SemrushBot-SWA, img2dataset, Googlebot-News, ChatGPT Agent, Echobot Bot, Google-Extended, Meta-ExternalFetcher, OAI-SearchBot, Poseidon Research Crawler, Claude-SearchBot, Crawlspace, Operator, PetalBot, Timpibot, YouBot, cohere-ai, GoogleAgent-Mariner, Meta-ExternalAgent, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Factset_spyderbot, QuillBot, YaK, Devin, Scrapy, Thinkbot, Applebot-Extended, Google-CloudVertexBot, MistralAI-User, MistralAI-User/1.0, omgili Blocking No — crawling allowed
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.politico.eu/news-sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://www.politico.eu/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /politico-header/
Disallow: /politico-footer/
Disallow: /*?=
Disallow: /*/registration*

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /sponsored-content
Disallow: /research-and-analysis
Disallow: /brand-event

User-agent: AddSearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: aiHitBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Andibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Awario
Disallow: /

User-agent: bedrockbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: bigsur.ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawlspace
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Echobot Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow: /

User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
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: iaskspider/2.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: NovaAct
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Operator
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Panscient
Disallow: /

User-agent: panscient.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: QualifiedBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: QuillBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: quillbot.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Thinkbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: wpbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YaK
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type URL Set URLs 40 entries Valid XML Yes
Sample URLs:
A+
Domain Intelligence
politico.eu — via GoDaddy.com, LLC
PASS
politico.eu — via GoDaddy.com, LLC
Info::
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Domain expiry

Unknown

SSL certificate

79 days

Issued by Google Trust Services

Domain age

Unknown

DNSSEC

Status unknown

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Unknown

2606:4700::6812:1414

Registrar

GoDaddy.com, LLC

Lock status unknown 2 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC
Name Servers lars.ns.cloudflare.com, cruz.ns.cloudflare.com
Registrant NOT DISCLOSED!
Hosting
IP Address 2606:4700::6812:1414
Data source: whois (0.5s)
A+
HTTP Probe Timing
Total 115 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.
16 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
24 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
115 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
115 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 56 ms TCP Connect 16 ms TLS Handshake 24 ms Server Processing 19 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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