Infrastructure - https://dpreview.com BeaverCheck Audit

B

Redirect Chain

1 redirect(s), 1658 ms total

REVIEW

1 redirect(s), 1658 ms total

Single redirect

Got: https://dpreview.com → https://www.dpreview.com/ (302)

WWW normalization redirect

Uses 302 (temporary) redirect

If permanent, use 301 instead.

Got: https://dpreview.com

Redirect overhead: 1658 ms total

Got: 1658 ms

https://dpreview.com

725 ms · HTTP/1.1

302

https://www.dpreview.com/

933 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://dpreview.com	302	725 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare
2	https://www.dpreview.com/	200	933 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

If permanent, use 301 instead.

Why this matters

302 (Found) is for genuinely temporary redirects — if this redirect is permanent, switch to 301 to preserve SEO equity.

Learn more ▾

Search engines treat 302 as temporary, keeping the original URL indexed and not transferring full link equity to the destination. Use 301 (Moved Permanently) for permanent redirects (HTTP→HTTPS, www-vs-non-www, URL restructures).

Source: Google Search Central

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.dpreview.com/

200https://dpreview.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

B

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

76 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

76

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

2 A records, 5 ms lookup

PASS

2 A records, 5 ms lookup

Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 104.20.22.164, 172.66.174.1

No IPv6 (AAAA) records

2 nameserver(s) configured

Got: elliot.ns.cloudflare.com, tina.ns.cloudflare.com

5 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: 5 ms

Got: 5 ms

A	104.20.22.164, 172.66.174.1
AAAA	—
CNAME	—
NS	elliot.ns.cloudflare.com, tina.ns.cloudflare.com
MX	1 aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com 10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com 10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
TXT	MS=ms21267957 _42kjbpsa91ka7vyjd4k41rppfjwvboy facebook-domain-verification=xknxx6n149lyu67qs2syv0w9v1s1sk google-site-verification=0SmNaaUei0d5ybcVc4eplPU2uc7jxJKbu_Hed3b0DrU google-site-verification=3ONmnJ55uD2jDKrg9LMVYTlVQrzYfBssLnfv3qKDgG4 google-site-verification=WgKB5AS2pPVOMYKzRrmt07G3i5xluWMIeqEsf7DMaDA google-site-verification=i2gqOpMg6zSl5ALXH1DVq02WmKincnbzzxYmuCrBwEM google-site-verification=kTdjfikE0d1hUu7Opznl5W9vVP92Smt3ksWzthV6oLM google-site-verification=lGUAbevXVHJ4HJwRwR_mFGan_9x2oze-CrTXej2wxwQ pinterest-site-verification=2837f90df83a46e8fb45fb264912b6fc spf2.0/pra include:amazon.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com incl... stripe-verification=06a2e193502551dc328395b4f0af60bad59ceb6704e76712e0ba9e419c57... SPF v=spf1 include:amazon.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:... yahoo-verification-key=g9/f2wP84tL6eQFCQeFqXXIGDL+lf+rhpfEoxzQOAv8=
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 5 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 335 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 335 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 4563 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 335 entries

Sitemap index with 335 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 4563 B Sitemaps referenced 2 User-agents *, baiduspider, GPTBot, CCBot, Googlebot, AhrefsBot, GoogleOther, ias_crawler, Amazonbot, 360Spider, facebookexternalhit, bingbot, sogou, dotbot, magpie-crawler, weborama-fetcher, Claude-Web, msnbot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PetalBot Blocking No — crawling allowed

User-agent: *
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow:		/tag/
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow:      /ads.txt
Disallow:   /ad
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /tag/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /*=$
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation

User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: msnbot
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /tag/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /tag/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /galleries
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: baiduspider
User-agent: sogou
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /tag/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /galleries
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /tag/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /*=$
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow:   /members/
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /tag/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /galleries
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation

User-agent: weborama-fetcher
User-agent: ias_crawler
Disallow:   /api
Disallow:   /forums/reply
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-last-post/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-unread/
Disallow:   /forums/redirect-post/
Disallow:   /reviews_data
Disallow:   /search
Disallow:   /articles/redirect/
Disallow:   /set-location
Disallow:   /members/messages/
Disallow:   /preview/
Disallow:   /feedback
Disallow:   /feedback/
Disallow:	/forums/misc/style-variation

User-agent: 360Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.dpreview.com/sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.dpreview.com/sitemaps/news

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 335 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A+

Domain Intelligence

dpreview.com — via Cloudflare, Inc., 27 years, 1 months old, hosted on Cloudflare

PASS

dpreview.com — via Cloudflare, Inc., 27 years, 1 months old, hosted on Cloudflare

Domain registered until Aug 11, 2026 (3 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: Cloudflare, 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: Cloudflare

Got: AS13335

Domain expiry

EXPIRED

August 11, 2026

SSL certificate

76 days

Issued by Google Trust Services

Domain age

27 years, 1 months

Registered August 11, 1999

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Cloudflare

ASN AS13335

104.20.22.164

Registrar

Cloudflare, Inc.

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

Registrar Cloudflare, Inc.

Created August 11, 1999 (27 years, 1 months ago)

Expires August 11, 2026 (3 months)

Last Updated July 12, 2025

Name Servers elliot.ns.cloudflare.com, tina.ns.cloudflare.com

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 104.20.22.164

ASN AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US)

Provider Cloudflare

Data source: rdap (0.8s)

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

PASS

DNS Lookup

6 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

7 ms

Time to First Byte

718 ms

Total Time

718 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 6 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 7 ms Server Processing 704 ms Content Transfer 0 ms

A

CDN & Delivery

Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)

PASS

Cloudflare (DYNAMIC)

Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: SIN)

Got: cf-ray: 9effad6ade9dd261-SIN

CDN cache status: DYNAMIC

CDN Detected: Cloudflare

Provider Cloudflare Cache Status DYNAMIC Evidence cf-ray: 9effad6ade9dd261-SIN