Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.

SCORE

GRADE

FIX

REVIEW

PASS

INFO

Probed from Madrid, Spain

301 Moved Permanently

Checks

4 PASS 4 REVIEW 1 FIX

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.

Redirect Chain

1 redirect(s), 1691 ms total

REVIEW

1 redirect(s), 1691 ms total

Single redirect

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

WWW normalization redirect

Redirect overhead: 1691 ms total

Got: 1691 ms

https://today.com

705 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.today.com

986 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://today.com	301	705 ms	HTTP/1.1
2	https://www.today.com	200	986 ms	HTTP/1.1	nginx

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

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

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.today.com/

200https://today.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

91 days until leaf cert expires — 4 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

days left

0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

Prefer TLS 1.3 — TLS 1.2 is acceptable but TLS 1.3 removes RSA key exchange and improves latency
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, 126 ms lookup

PASS

4 A records, 126 ms lookup

Resolves to 4 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 52.37.236.218, 34.206.62.195, 54.69.127.167, 44.219.25.60

No IPv6 (AAAA) records

6 nameserver(s) configured

Got: nsa1.today.com, nsa4.today.com, nsa2.today.com, nsa5.today.com, nsa6.today.com, nsa3.today.com

4 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: 126 ms

Got: 126 ms

A	52.37.236.218, 34.206.62.195, 54.69.127.167, 44.219.25.60
AAAA	—
CNAME	—
NS	nsa1.today.com, nsa4.today.com, nsa2.today.com, nsa5.today.com, nsa6.today.com, nsa3.today.com
MX	10 mxb-00176a04.gslb.pphosted.com 10 mxa-00176a04.gslb.pphosted.com 20 mx0a-00176a04.pphosted.com 20 mx0b-00176a04.pphosted.com
TXT	google-site-verification=YiP4qzGEbewJP30KKkKBOJOB4vo_6OI6ww1lYIbysUY atlassian-domain-verification=hnOZC9WrGJKmk3t83oojZWEloANSWU2MnvQDVGqe6laUY0fpn5... klaviyo-site-verification=T9n2Jw SPF v=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com include:amazonses.com -all amazonses:pjlTjDP0eh8FFZLGrBKSTZsCn1XihUyov0hSpZtbXdc= MS=ms63785880 facebook-domain-verification=c8fi3vo7t9wvv552h1escjnu00e3te klaviyo-site-verification=St2zGw _jvtlt6xbp6zfl23p9yp9oqzgf27wvqh
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 126 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+

Crawlability

robots.txt present, sitemap with 767 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 767 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 9025 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 767 entries

Sitemap index with 767 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 9025 B Sitemaps referenced 4 User-agents AwarioSmartBot, FacebookBot, magpie-crawler, Scrapy, anthropic-ai, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, news-please, peer39_crawler/1.0, Applebot-Extended, Diffbot, Google-Extended, NewsNow, Bytespider, cohere-ai, GPTBot, omgilibot, peer39_crawler, AmazonBot, AwarioRssBot, CCBot, Claude-User, meta-externalagent, TurnitinBot, MistralAI-User, omgili, *, Claude-Web, DataForSeoBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Amazonbot, Claude-SearchBot, OAI-SearchBot Blocking No — crawling allowed

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /xml/today/SitemapToday*.xml
Disallow: /ajax*
Disallow: /akam/
Disallow: /bentoapi/

# Disallow Bots (Allow /shop only)
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: AmazonBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: peer39_crawler
User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/
Allow: /about/today/today-digital-masthead-rcna155416
Allow: /about/today-rcna226078
Allow: /information/join-today-live-plaza-t250868
Allow: /start-today/app/supplemental-terms
Allow: /information/closed-captioning-t215383
Allow: /information/-us-send-today-your-questions-comments-t215381

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /shop
Allow: /shop/

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.today.com/sitemap/today/sitemap-index
Sitemap: https://www.today.com/sitemap/today/sitemap-news
Sitemap: https://www.today.com/sitemap/today/sitemap-curations
Sitemap: https://www.today.com/sitemap/today/sitemap-shop.xml

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 767 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A+

Domain Intelligence

today.com — via MarkMonitor Inc., 28 years, 5 months old, hosted on AWS

PASS

today.com — via MarkMonitor Inc., 28 years, 5 months old, hosted on AWS

Domain registered until Apr 6, 2027 (11 months remaining)

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: MarkMonitor Inc.

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: AWS

Got: AS16509

Domain expiry

294 days

April 6, 2027

SSL certificate

91 days

Issued by DigiCert Inc

Domain age

28 years, 5 months

Registered April 7, 1998

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

AWS

ASN AS16509

44.219.25.60

Registrar

MarkMonitor Inc.

Unlocked 6 NS records

Expiry timeline

Today

+1 year

Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)

Recommended actions

Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers

Registrar MarkMonitor Inc.

Created April 7, 1998 (28 years, 5 months ago)

Expires April 6, 2027 (11 months)

Last Updated March 5, 2025

Name Servers nsa1.today.com, nsa2.today.com, nsa3.today.com, nsa4.today.com, nsa5.today.com, nsa6.today.com

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 44.219.25.60

ASN AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)

Provider AWS

Data source: rdap (0.3s)

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

HTTP Probe Timing

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

PASS

DNS Lookup

119 ms

TCP Connect

97 ms

TLS Handshake

196 ms

Time to First Byte

509 ms

Total Time

509 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 119 ms TCP Connect 97 ms TLS Handshake 196 ms Server Processing 98 ms Content Transfer 0 ms

All checks on this page are automated. Results are estimates - run targeted manual reviews when the score affects a release decision.