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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
1
REVIEW
3
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Singapore, Singapore
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 3 REVIEW 1 FIX
D
CDN & Delivery
Action
No CDN detected
FIX
No CDN detected
Warning::
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.

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.indystar.com/
200https://indystar.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

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

Certificate validity

71
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, 374 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 374 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 151.101.42.62
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
8 nameserver(s) configured
Got: dns1.p03.nsone.net, dns2.p03.nsone.net, dns3.p03.nsone.net, dns4.p03.nsone.net, ns01.gannett-dns.com, ns02.gannett-dns.com, ns03.gannett-dns.com, ns04.gannett-dns.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
Warning::
DNS resolution is slow (374 ms)
Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider.
Got: 374 ms
A151.101.42.62
AAAA—
CNAME—
NSdns1.p03.nsone.net, dns2.p03.nsone.net, dns3.p03.nsone.net, dns4.p03.nsone.net, ns01.gannett-dns.com, ns02.gannett-dns.com, ns03.gannett-dns.com, ns04.gannett-dns.com
MX
5 indystar-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT
Indianapolis Star
MS=ms53828772
ZOOM_verify_mK5gTu0EQyKS5EICntFhHw
facebook-domain-verification=i0pu87da5kkgzzb0ts0we94lq9vku1
google-site-verification=8DLmBPXKyf2qPPvWdOcXNQ6DZRjSiM7ywQiaNurCyUQ
google-site-verification=5H1BMFtJFh1PNZAGL8EXQ_n1LfTqKuqBzFL6V7kGlzc
14d5f8178e294595b6c089fd7ca9114a
brave-ledger-verification=e68334a3b619e8e8fbf1c4f9d365cb334afa7e177cc02e3f5aab41...
brave-ledger-verification=0217b0d27b8bde6cea5595269b1e483c3688b671c85e9d94f2d531...
openai-domain-verification=dv-jlrlzGKK8UZUgAT6T7RhHvXz
adobe-idp-site-verification=7a20173eab2daba6709deb0312d1a66f053c2d6fb763c416b776...
tollbit-domain-verification=10faf23cba4c339877a8de82ed35a0b504e1f8cd59976f3adc5b...
SPF v=spf1 include:spf.gannett.com include:amazonses.com include:cust-spf.exacttarge...
perplexity-ai-domain-verification-9tznhm=kBZ9JgA2TpWjFGMd1wdpiXr5o
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 374 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.

Slow DNS adds latency to every page load. Consider a faster DNS provider.

Why this matters

DNS resolution is slow — anycast DNS providers (Cloudflare, Route 53) typically resolve <50ms globally.

Source: DNS performance benchmarks

A
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 982 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 982 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://indystar.com → https://www.indystar.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect
Info::
Redirect overhead: 982 ms total
Got: 982 ms

https://indystar.com

745 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.indystar.com/

237 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://indystar.com301745 msHTTP/1.1
2https://www.indystar.com/200237 msHTTP/1.1

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 70 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 70 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 7504 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 70 entries
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 7504 B Sitemaps referenced 3 User-agents SemrushBot-OCOB, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, SemrushBot, Sidetrade, Datenbank Crawler, CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler, AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval, AmazonBuyForMe, meta-externalagent, AhrefsBot, TavilyBot, Poggio-Citations, AudigentBot, Claude-User, Factset_spyderbot, TaraGroup Intelligent Bot, FirecrawlAgent, Cloudflare-AutoRAG, ChatGPT Agent, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, NeticleBot, SeekportBot, imageSpider, Bravebot, PhindBot, KlaviyoAIBot, Crawlspace, MoodleBot, iaskspider, AmazonAdBot, AwarioRssBot, LINER Bot, GoogleOther, Perplexity-User, peer39_crawler/1.0, crawler4j, Seekr, aiHitBot, Channel3Bot, Scrapy, omgilibot, https://www.imediaethics.org, Turnitin, MistralAI-User, ZanistaBot, peer39_crawler, Google-CloudVertexBot, ICC-Crawler, Netvibes, EchoboxBot, ChatGLM-Spider, LinerBot, Applebot-Extended, ChatGPT Operator, SBIntuitionsBot, Manus-User, Arquivo-web-crawler, coccocbot-web, Yandex, Amazon Kendra, Crawl4AI, LinkupBot, GoogleAgent-Mariner, TurnitinBot, ChatGPT-User, iaskspider/2.0, Webzio-Extended, ia_archiver, Google-NotebookLM, AudigentAdBot, AmazonBot, Bytespider, AspiegelBot, Barkrowler, dotbot, Mojeek, MojeekBot, Claude-Web, Meta-ExternalAgent, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, AI2Bot, Meltwater, LCC, ISSCyberRiskCrawler, MJ12bot, DeepSeekBot, Anomura, NewsNow, VelenPublicWebCrawler, TaraGroup Intelligent Bot V1, Timpibot, YandexAdditional, PetalBot, yacy, ia_archiver-web.archive.org, cohere-ai, FacebookBot, DuckAssistBot, PanguBot, TikTokSpider, laion-huggingface-processor, Diffbot, YouBot, atlassian-bot, bigsur.ai, omgili, JenkersBot, Big Sur AI, AddSearchBot, Sidetrade Indexer Bot, Kangaroo Bot, QualifiedBot, meta-webindexer, Devin, YandexAdditionalBot, Grok, imgproxy, Googlebot-News, ImagesiftBot, LivelapBot, netEstate Imprint Crawler, NovaAct, WARDBot, TwinAgent, *, MauiBot, archive.org_bot, magpie-crawler, img2dataset, CCBot, SeznamBot, SemrushBotSwa, Spider, Meta-ExternalFetcher, GPTBot, DataForSeoBot, Applebot, yacybot, Brandwatch, cohere-training-data-crawler, FriendlyCrawler, DigitalOceanGenAICrawler, ICC Crawler, Gemini-Deep-Research, news-please, Ai2Bot-Dolma, AwarioSmartBot, https://hada.news, Bravest, Cotoyogi, Echobot Bot Blocking No — crawling allowed
# robots.txt file for https://www.indystar.com/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
Allow: /contributor-content/
Allow: /story/special/contributor-content/

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /story/sponsor-story/
Disallow: /picture-gallery/sponsor-story/
Disallow: /videos/sponsor-story/
Disallow: /longform/sponsor-story/
Disallow: /pages/interactives/sponsor-story/
Disallow: /interactives/sponsor-story/
Disallow: /videos/embed/

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /contributor-content/
Allow: /story/special/contributor-content/

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /contributor-content/
Allow: /story/special/contributor-content/

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /contributor-content/
Allow: /story/special/contributor-content/

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /contributor-content/
Allow: /story/special/contributor-content/

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: AspiegelBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Barkrowler
Disallow: /

User-agent: coccocbot-web
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: crawler4j
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawlspace
Disallow: /

User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: https://hada.news
Disallow: /

User-agent: https://www.imediaethics.org
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: JenkersBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LivelapBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meltwater
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mojeek
Disallow: /

User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MoodleBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: NeticleBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Netvibes
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Seekr
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sidetrade Indexer Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Turnitin
Disallow: /

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: yacy
Disallow: /

User-agent: yacybot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: aiHitBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazon Kendra
Disallow: /

User-agent: Big Sur AI
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brandwatch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bravest
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT Operator
Disallow: /
Allow: /contributor-content/
Allow: /story/special/contributor-content/

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: DigitalOceanGenAICrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Echobot Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Grok
Disallow: /

User-agent: iaskspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: imgproxy
Disallow: /

User-agent: LINER Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: NovaAct
Disallow: /

User-agent: QualifiedBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBotSwa
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sidetrade
Disallow: /

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot V1
Disallow: /

User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawl4AI
Disallow: /

User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: LCC
Disallow: /

User-agent: Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-webindexer
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bravebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AddSearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Anomura
Disallow: /

User-agent: atlassian-bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Channel3Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkupBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZanistaBot
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: TavilyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
Disallow: /

User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poggio-Citations
Disallow: /

User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /

User-agent: bigsur.ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
Disallow: /

User-agent: Manus-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: TwinAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: AudigentAdBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AudigentBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /errors
Disallow: /interactive/
Disallow: /userauth/
Disallow: /ugc/
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /services/
Disallow: /facebook/
Disallow: /version-info/
Disallow: /longform/draft/
Disallow: /story/draft/
Disallow: /topic/*/smart/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /module-showcase/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /blended-newsletter/
Disallow: /story/nletter/
Disallow: /sports/services/photos/
Disallow: /optimus
Disallow: /ux-train
Disallow: /story/advisory/
Disallow: /.cam-tangent/
Disallow: /pbd/
Disallow: /gciaf/
Disallow: /gcdn/gciaf/
Disallow: /dcc/
Disallow: /gcdn/dcc/
Disallow: /dc/
Disallow: /gcdn/dc/
Disallow: /dcjs/
Disallow: /gcdn/dcjs/
Disallow: /content-queries/
Disallow: /zxc/
Disallow: /staff/8295/marisa-kwiatkowski/

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://www.indystar.com/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.indystar.com/web-sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.indystar.com/video-sitemap-index.xml
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type URL Set URLs 70 entries Valid XML Yes
Sample URLs:
A+
Domain Intelligence
indystar.com — via GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, 31 years, 10 months old, hosted on Fastly
PASS
indystar.com — via GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC, 31 years, 10 months old, hosted on Fastly
Info::
Domain registered until Nov 8, 2026 (6 months remaining)
Info::
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.
Info::
Registrar: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
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: Fastly
Got: AS54113
Domain expiry

147 days

November 8, 2026

SSL certificate

71 days

Issued by Let's Encrypt

Domain age

31 years, 10 months

Registered November 9, 1994

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Fastly

ASN AS54113

151.101.42.62

Registrar

GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC

Unlocked 8 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 GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Created November 9, 1994 (31 years, 10 months ago)
Expires November 8, 2026 (6 months)
Last Updated October 9, 2025
Name Servers dns1.p01.nsone.net, dns2.p01.nsone.net, dns3.p01.nsone.net, dns4.p01.nsone.net, ns01.gannett-dns.com, ns02.gannett-dns.com, ns03.gannett-dns.com, ns04.gannett-dns.com
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 151.101.42.62
ASN AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)
Provider Fastly
Data source: rdap (0.7s)

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

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 177 ms TCP Connect 189 ms TLS Handshake 192 ms Server Processing 190 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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