Infrastructure - https://adweek.com BeaverCheck Audit

D

CDN & Delivery

Action

No CDN detected

FIX

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), 1159 ms total

REVIEW

1 redirect(s), 1159 ms total

Single redirect

Got: https://adweek.com → https://www.adweek.com/ (301)

WWW normalization redirect

Redirect overhead: 1159 ms total

Got: 1159 ms

https://adweek.com

790 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.adweek.com/

369 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://adweek.com	301	790 ms	HTTP/1.1	nginx
2	https://www.adweek.com/	200	369 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

C

IPv6 Readiness

Action

No IPv6 support

REVIEW

No IPv6 support

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

Both www and non-www versions serve content

Got: Both variants return 200 Expected: One variant 301-redirects to the other

HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

200https://www.adweek.com/

200https://adweek.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

B

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

52 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

52

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

1 A records, 73 ms lookup

PASS

1 A records, 73 ms lookup

Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 192.0.66.74

Single A record — no DNS redundancy

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

No IPv6 (AAAA) records

4 nameserver(s) configured

Got: ns-532.awsdns-02.net, ns-1571.awsdns-04.co.uk, ns-1322.awsdns-37.org, ns-304.awsdns-38.com

1 mail exchanger(s) configured

CAA records not checked

CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.

SPF record present in TXT

DNS resolution time: 73 ms

Got: 73 ms

A	192.0.66.74
AAAA	—
CNAME	—
NS	ns-532.awsdns-02.net, ns-1571.awsdns-04.co.uk, ns-1322.awsdns-37.org, ns-304.awsdns-38.com
MX	0 adweek-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT	p00ck26sjmvcx1f38dc4l59vtj9xh9wj google-site-verification=3lhpZPF-ip8edelqZYbN8xyTgBmFzvPtqv6wrRwnug0 mandrill_verify.2PaTQ7Zu1BbqEYpRmYWp6Q znpblxzym47wrzrhs11qblgvckt6qxdt pvpjfc2sc2wlpz8brjhrz767rfxkbvwv mhjn5ccrsds948g7rmpb7t784vfhld3y tollbit-domain-verification=3a50b726a13523209ee82bdd49b54fe482bf7f37f1041710049a... SPF v=spf1 a mx ip4:63.247.178.131 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mxsmtp... ylk8p2bvxdn3w9wy7bptf2xmw43sgrdf _umv29osaom9swrcjhbpatkge0dbfec8 mandrill_verify.0-5TZrIFdPHYVJ8T9zgJVw d23g78tn3cgqpn6qvsd2vf40swyzdr3q h2ww4b2m9xbyh835h2qnfq7f7y9lvt34 apple-domain-verification=QEZlTgTJT7VfZFqd _n2ds2luytxmywf088zuald656fdr98e google-site-verification=3aVx-BhB6u-TRriKqjKe-i_L5082ZopLCg4-yex4Vn0 google-site-verification=V3-g89ujexbgiiIAThE8S4FN4mniIl3_CqIlIn5G-iY 32h3yxfh52619lpcy4x6gj51ty79yz6s ZOOM_verify_wj1Ht6juSbewYj7VV8fMlw _fhwp25pcssyne2y7qdms9oqznbsgm4p y6fwbzrxkn6fvvmslvjyg8t0wcx87dnq _obmrh9ue3fxche9dimleh2ihocjp3zd
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 73 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 32 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 32 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 9038 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 32 entries

Sitemap index with 32 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 9038 B Sitemaps referenced 6 User-agents AdsBot-Google, 008, Applebot-Extended, HTTrack 3.0, Nicecrawler, SmarshBot, Twitterbot, bl.uk_lddc_bot, HTTrack, Google-Extended, GoogleOther, ICC-Crawler, mirrorweb, netEstate Imprint Crawler, Nutch, Offline Explorer, OpenindexSpider, CloudVertexBot, anthropic-ai, iaskspider, Timpibot, cohere-training-data-crawler, FacebookBot, KunatoCrawler, laion-huggingface-processor, PanguBot, Scrapy, WRTNBot, dcrawl, Kangaroo Bot, SBIntuitionsBot, special_archiver, XY-Archive-Compliance, Amazonbot, HelloworkJobPostingBot, iAskBot, Authory, ChatGLM-Spider, DeepSeekBot, nyt_scraping, AdsTxtCrawler, Archive-It, heritrix, imageSpider, MetaInspector, netarkivindsamling, Turnitin, bne.es_bot, IndeedJobBot, meta-externalagent, omgili, Arquivo-web-crawler, GPTBot, ia_archiver, LCC, newspaper, VelenPublicWebCrawler, webzio-extended, cohere-ai, Googlebot-Image, CCBot, Dataprovider.com, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Cotoyogi, Datenbank Crawler, Potions, TerraCotta, XY-Archive-Compliance-Archiver, Bytespider, IABot, Internet Archive, MetaJobBot, ServerHunterSpider, Spider, Googlebot, Baiduspider, Aranet-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, ia_archiver-web.archive.org, KrawlerBot, StatsDroneBot, archive.org_bot, bnf.fr_bot, Claude-Web, Crawl4AI Blocking No — crawling allowed

Disallow: /wp-includes/

Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

Disallow: /wp-content/themes/


User-agent: Googlebot

Allow: /wp-content/plugins/

Allow: /wp-content/themes/

Allow: /wp-content/uploads/


User-agent: AdsBot-Google

Allow: /wp-content/plugins/

Allow: /wp-content/themes/


User-agent: Googlebot-Image

Allow: /wp-content/plugins/

Allow: /wp-content/themes/

Allow: /wp-content/uploads/


User-agent: Twitterbot

Allow: /sponsored/

Allow: /partner-articles/


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

Sitemap: https://www.adweek.com/sitemap-1.xml

Sitemap: https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://www.adweek.com/lostremote/sitemap.xml


User-agent: Baiduspider

# https://darkvisitors.com/agents/baiduspider

Disallow: /


# START DARK VISITORS BLOCK
# ---------------------------
# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/008

User-agent: 008
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/adstxtcrawler

User-agent: AdsTxtCrawler
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/ai2bot-dolma

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/amazonbot

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/anthropic-ai

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/applebot-extended

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/aranet-searchbot

User-agent: Aranet-SearchBot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/archive-it

User-agent: Archive-It
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/archive-org-bot

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/arquivo-web-crawler

User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/authory

User-agent: Authory
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/bl-uk-lddc-bot

User-agent: bl.uk_lddc_bot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/bne-es-bot

User-agent: bne.es_bot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/bnf-fr-bot

User-agent: bnf.fr_bot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/bytespider

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/ccbot

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/chatglm-spider

User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/claude-web

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/claudebot

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/cloudvertexbot

User-agent: CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/cohere-ai

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/cohere-training-data-crawler

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

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/cotoyogi

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/crawl4ai

User-agent: Crawl4AI
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/dataprovider-com

User-agent: Dataprovider.com
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/datenbank-crawler

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/dcrawl

User-agent: dcrawl
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/deepseekbot

User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/facebookbot

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/google-extended

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/googleother

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/gptbot

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/helloworkjobpostingbot

User-agent: HelloworkJobPostingBot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/heritrix

User-agent: heritrix
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/httrack

User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/httrack-3-0

User-agent: HTTrack 3.0
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/ia-archiver

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/ia-archiver-web-archive-org

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

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/iabot

User-agent: IABot
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/iaskbot

User-agent: iAskBot
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/iaskspider

User-agent: iaskspider
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/icc-crawler

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/imagespider

User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/indeedjobbot

User-agent: IndeedJobBot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/internet-archive

User-agent: Internet Archive
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/kangaroo-bot

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/krawlerbot

User-agent: KrawlerBot
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/kunatocrawler

User-agent: KunatoCrawler
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/laion-huggingface-processor

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

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/lcc

User-agent: LCC
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/meta-externalagent

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/metainspector

User-agent: MetaInspector
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/metajobbot

User-agent: MetaJobBot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/mirrorweb

User-agent: mirrorweb
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/netarkivindsamling

User-agent: netarkivindsamling
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/netestate-imprint-crawler

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/newspaper

User-agent: newspaper
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/nicecrawler

User-agent: Nicecrawler
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/nutch

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/nyt-scraping

User-agent: nyt_scraping
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/offline-explorer

User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/omgili

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/openindexspider

User-agent: OpenindexSpider
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/pangubot

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/potions

User-agent: Potions
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/sbintuitionsbot

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/scrapy

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/serverhunterspider

User-agent: ServerHunterSpider
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/smarshbot

User-agent: SmarshBot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/special-archiver

User-agent: special_archiver
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/spider

User-agent: Spider
Disallow: /

# Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/statsdronebot

User-agent: StatsDroneBot
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/terracotta

User-agent: TerraCotta
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/timpibot

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/turnitin

User-agent: Turnitin
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/velenpublicwebcrawler

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

# AI Data Scraper
# https://knownagents.com/agents/webzio-extended

User-agent: webzio-extended
Disallow: /

# Undocumented AI Agent
# https://knownagents.com/agents/wrtnbot

User-agent: WRTNBot
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/xy-archive-compliance

User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance
Disallow: /

# Archiver
# https://knownagents.com/agents/xy-archive-compliance-archiver

User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance-Archiver
Disallow: /
# ---------------------------
# END DARK VISITORS BLOCK

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 32 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A

Domain Intelligence

adweek.com — via Moniker Online Services LLC, 31 years, 4 months old, hosted on WordPress.com (Automattic)

PASS

adweek.com — via Moniker Online Services LLC, 31 years, 4 months old, hosted on WordPress.com (Automattic)

Domain expires in 32 days

Consider enabling auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiration.

Got: Expires May 24, 2026

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.

Registrar: Moniker Online Services LLC

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.

Hosting: WordPress.com (Automattic)

Got: AS2635

Domain expiry

EXPIRED

May 24, 2026

SSL certificate

52 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

31 years, 4 months

Registered May 25, 1995

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

WordPress.com (Automattic)

ASN AS2635

192.0.66.74

Registrar

Moniker Online Services LLC

Unlocked 4 NS records

Expiry timeline

Today

+1 year

Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)

Recommended actions

Domain has EXPIRED — renew immediately to avoid total site outage
Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers

Registrar Moniker Online Services LLC

Created May 25, 1995 (31 years, 4 months ago)

Expires May 24, 2026 (1 months)

Last Updated November 25, 2025

Name Servers ns-1322.awsdns-37.org, ns-1571.awsdns-04.co.uk, ns-304.awsdns-38.com, ns-532.awsdns-02.net

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 192.0.66.74

ASN AS2635 (AUTOMATTIC - Automattic, Inc, US)

Provider WordPress.com (Automattic)

Data source: rdap (0.3s)

Consider enabling auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiration.

Why this matters

Domain expiry approaching — renew immediately and ensure auto-renew + alerting are configured.

Source: ICANN renewal policy

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 508 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

PASS

DNS Lookup

36 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

3 ms

Time to First Byte

508 ms

Total Time

508 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 36 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 3 ms Server Processing 468 ms Content Transfer 0 ms