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Infrastructure

· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
85
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
4
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 4 REVIEW
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.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/
200https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ → https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/

Consistent

B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
79 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

79
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
B
CDN & Delivery
Cloudflare
REVIEW
Cloudflare
Info::
Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: CDG)
Got: cf-ray: 9f07dede2b1a047f-CDG
CDN Detected: Cloudflare
Provider Cloudflare Evidence cf-ray: 9f07dede2b1a047f-CDG
A+
DNS Records
2 A records, 40 ms lookup
PASS
2 A records, 40 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 104.18.35.240, 172.64.152.16
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
2 nameserver(s) configured
Got: erin.ns.cloudflare.com, elliot.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: 40 ms
Got: 40 ms
A104.18.35.240, 172.64.152.16
AAAA—
CNAME—
NSerin.ns.cloudflare.com, elliot.ns.cloudflare.com
MX
10 belfasttelegraph-co-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT
google-site-verification=45Uveh28aB630R6LmfqPLpMwQLZyfYk62IaaCaorjSg
MS=ms29041452
google-site-verification=-7dNbRZz5xt8m6hmLFBoWjIJm1wJG1kapisq1v1u1sc
1password-site-verification=OEE5UGK3SBA4TM5AUSQLGZBPYE
MS=ms58219451
atlassian-domain-verification=6pmXgwnFg97VcZymPBajXWMApgo0EvG3OatYXgfleuo44Klq2a...
adobe-idp-site-verification=2874515d68b0370803179f9e8d6698cb503e00756499a6e7a042...
SPF v=spf1 ip4:185.43.125.61 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:authsmtp.com...
apple-domain-verification=i7FOVTJyakWPeQcP
google-site-verification=xD9oeCigTlbz_mvdk57czXxeXOngsxPzvRYQ9i7dq6E
access-domain-verification=af4233c87826b179b65d7ae3ad67f80d611c5e401c650b5e49f4c...
MS=ms33878766
facebook-domain-verification=sa5lgndiurjk4osno4lg55dvuotqhq
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 40 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), 249 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 249 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk → https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk

58 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/

191 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk30158 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare
2https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/200191 msHTTP/1.1cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 353 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 353 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 1799 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 353 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 353 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 1799 B Sitemaps referenced 4 User-agents Diffbot, omgilibot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, FacebookBot, Bytespider, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, cohere-ai, magpie-crawler, Google-Extended, GPTBot, omgili, *, Googlebot-News, Amazonbot Blocking No — crawling allowed
# All copyrights, neighbouring rights and database rights in the content and layout of this website/app are explicitly reserved and are for personal, non-commercial use only.
# In accordance with Article  4 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) and its transposition into the law of the applicable Member State,
# all content of this website on which it is made available is not to be used for the purposes of text and data mining, extraction, scraping and/or the use of programs or robots
# for automatic data collection and/or extraction of digital data, whether for machine learning or artificial intelligence purposes or otherwise.
# See also the Terms and Conditions of this website.

# robots.txt prod Belfast Telegraph
user-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /tags

# Disallow Internal Search
Disallow: /search/

# Disallow Sponsored Articles for Google News
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /ad-features/

# Disallow Large Language Models
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

#list sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sitemap-image.xml
Sitemap: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sitemap-news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sitemap-video.xml
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 353 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A
Domain Intelligence
belfasttelegraph.co.uk — via Team Blue Internet Services IE Limited [Tag = LETSHOST-IE], hosted on Cloudflare
PASS
belfasttelegraph.co.uk — via Team Blue Internet Services IE Limited [Tag = LETSHOST-IE], hosted on Cloudflare
Warning::
Domain expires in 74 days
Consider enabling auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiration.
Got: Expires Jul 6, 2026
Info::
Registrar: Team Blue Internet Services IE Limited [Tag = LETSHOST-IE]
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: Cloudflare
Got: AS13335
Domain expiry

EXPIRED

July 6, 2026

SSL certificate

79 days

Issued by Google Trust Services

Domain age

Unknown

DNSSEC

Status unknown

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Cloudflare

ASN AS13335

104.18.35.240

Registrar

Team Blue Internet Services IE Limited [Tag = LETSHOST-IE]

Unlocked 2 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 registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers
Registrar Team Blue Internet Services IE Limited [Tag = LETSHOST-IE]
Expires July 6, 2026 (2 months)
Last Updated July 4, 2024
Name Servers elliot.ns.cloudflare.com, erin.ns.cloudflare.com
Hosting
IP Address 104.18.35.240
ASN AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)
Provider Cloudflare
Data source: whois (0.8s)

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

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

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 41 ms TCP Connect 17 ms TLS Handshake 22 ms Server Processing 19 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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