Infrastructure - https://westjet.com BeaverCheck Audit

B

Redirect Chain

2 redirect(s), 251 ms total

REVIEW

2 redirect(s), 251 ms total

2 redirects before reaching final URL

Each redirect adds latency. Try to minimize the chain to 1 hop.

WWW normalization redirect

Uses 302 (temporary) redirect

If permanent, use 301 instead.

Got: https://www.westjet.com/

https://westjet.com

5 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.westjet.com/

57 ms · HTTP/1.1

302

https://www.westjet.com/es-es

189 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://westjet.com	301	5 ms	HTTP/1.1	AkamaiGHost
2	https://www.westjet.com/	302	57 ms	HTTP/1.1	AkamaiGHost
3	https://www.westjet.com/es-es	200	189 ms	HTTP/1.1	Apache

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

Each redirect adds latency. Try to minimize the chain to 1 hop.

Why this matters

Redirect chain — each hop adds latency; combine into one redirect where possible.

Source: Google Search Central / web.dev

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

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

307 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

307

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

Akamai

REVIEW

Akamai

Site is served via Akamai CDN

Got: server header

CDN Detected: Akamai

Provider Akamai Evidence server header

A+

DNS Records

1 A records, 84 ms lookup

PASS

1 A records, 84 ms lookup

Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 23.194.18.73

Single A record — no DNS redundancy

Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.

No IPv6 (AAAA) records

6 nameserver(s) configured

Got: a2-67.akam.net, a28-64.akam.net, a4-65.akam.net, a11-66.akam.net, a5-66.akam.net, a1-91.akam.net

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: 84 ms

Got: 84 ms

A	23.194.18.73
AAAA	—
CNAME	—
NS	a2-67.akam.net, a28-64.akam.net, a4-65.akam.net, a11-66.akam.net, a5-66.akam.net, a1-91.akam.net
MX	10 westjet-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT	MS=ms93334173 shopify-verification-code=66tQD6mCVF0cqBQAVblNh7bGyeWlh3 google-site-verification=FkaGRsDnm3sU4EX0i4Eyxl-JRYHZOvKPiB9C3T_ubt8 onetrust-domain-verification=f6b539b66fee4f249a9cff2ee806447c hpe-greenlake-domain-verification=4b6d5051766a4b575a5a433530797635716569496f6447... google-site-verification=QeljbdHdHOPbPO_zyee9tPjM9s6P-EpWAtkhzRw2Nos google-site-verification=9a09ZseyA7bPuIfh9V1lOXMbWUIOeK6VNMbGh6J8uWs SPF v=spf1 ip4:198.84.14.0/24 ip4:198.84.15.0/24 ip4:107.23.16.222/32 ip4:54.173.83.... google-site-verification=6bgG2DpiInC7e5-GvthTV0AA9w7pLwaTgphPNowpJ2k _55r6nfaq8356ukydppcf0t1gr9srg80 atlassian-domain-verification=kO4IxSwEUvi2Gj5ME8vdMrUd2XJo5q76z/rWB/owQAlqIn/cDq... _i2zg1b2zxoeabza2v8yjraljnphn8kz google-site-verification=QD81VeD4blW3--SqMTQcKzvUsxtuUTn5mEDmNTISOXU hibp-verify=dweb_ahyblqoze1q9m3z5vq1ntmif teamviewer-sso-verification=84f547432e4a44ea851dd0f63267d199 docker-verification=e293aedb-d89d-4661-a7b9-e2160570ea76 sCBj4aXeNufyCBWOovuopHbZp-kca_o5 postman-domain-verification=a1499315f185262270790f6b62d61119fdaef1fd1ebd8da4839d... miro-verification=a97b8dcf0e0e239e09d7f47b5aed9cd944c5985d 1password-site-verification=7GQYYURHCRHOLESLTZ2CVJA4XU adobe-idp-site-verification=ef76a363-85c5-440b-a0de-bf8988eef198 mandrill_verify.0kjuIRDgVOUYaLdhaSaZZw 6u1O7zh9mbpF0lKGNlFsJO8Xvs6M1FsN1+Hhw8aTlmXQ4j2qfl1UPDX/WtnXTVNJsdWUwrQWa3qFp5aU... atlassian-domain-verification=PBYiT1z7sFARCR45quPqIVKmWUgE6Hm2GKkgVa4km7vH1qLIZ7...
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 84 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 55 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 55 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 4109 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 55 entries

Sitemap index with 55 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 4109 B Sitemaps referenced 4 User-agents * Blocking No — crawling allowed

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/akamai/
Disallow: /*/documents/en/onboarding/*.pdf
Disallow: /*/analytics/
Disallow: /*/campaigns/
Disallow: /*/data/
Disallow: /*/flash/
Disallow: /assets/wj-web/documents/en/about-us/financialReports/
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/oci-confirmation/
Disallow: /*/contactez-nous/commentez-experience/oci-confirmation
Disallow: /assets/wj-web/documents/en/jobs/WestJet_Policy_Acknowledgement.pdf
Disallow: /*context=lightbox
Disallow: /*sirev=true
Disallow: /*/book-trip/corporate-travel/
Disallow: /*/reserver-voyage/voyage-entreprise/
Disallow: /*/test/
Disallow: /*/qa/
Disallow: /*/search
Disallow: /*/rechercher
Disallow: /*/rewards/offers-promotions/rbc-get-gold
Disallow: /*/recompenses/offres-promotions/rbc-obtenez-or
Disallow: /*/xnet
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/juliet
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/juliet2
Disallow: /*/contactez-nous/commentez-experience/juliet
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/oci-reservation
Disallow:/*/lowfaresandmore/seat-sales/mobileapp
Disallow:/*/bastarifsetplus/soldes-places/mobileapp
Disallow:/*/tripcase-document-delivery-email
Disallow:/*/get-gold3
Disallow:/*/obtenir-or3
Disallow:/*/integration/ppgrid
Disallow:/*/integration/formbuilder
Disallow:/*/integration/form
Disallow:/*/integration/wvi-pp
Disallow:/*/wj-widgets-test/
Disallow:/*/contact-us/service-requests/ta-payment-services/
Disallow:/*/travel-info/advisories/wvi-cancel-booking
Disallow:/*/info-voyage/avis/annulation-de-reservation-wvi
Disallow:/*/contact-us/share-feedback/email
Disallow:/*/contact-us/service-requests/exceptional-circumstances-refund-request
Disallow:/*/contactez-nous/demandes-services/circonstances-exceptionnelles-demandes-remboursement
Disallow:/*/contact-us/service-requests/ta-vacations-rewards-id
Disallow:/*/contactez-nous/demandes-services/av-vacances-recompenses-id
Disallow:/*/contact-us/service-requests/ihr-submissions
Disallow:/*/rewards/rbc-mastercard/first-year-free
Disallow:/*/rewards/rbc-mastercard/more-dollars
Disallow:/*/contact-us/service-requests/wvi-refund
Disallow:/*/contactez-nous/demandes-services/remboursements-wvi
Disallow:/*/contact-us/share-feedback/ordertrial
Disallow:/*/rewards/offers-promotions/zero-cmp
Disallow:/*/recompenses/offres-promotions/zero-cpg
Disallow:/*/recompenses/offres-promotions/obtenir-or2
Disallow:/*/rewards/offers-promotions/statusmatch2
Disallow:/*/rewards/offers-promotions/tier-boost
Disallow:/*/recompenses/offres-promotions/bonification-niveau
Disallow:/*/contact/vacation-groups-refund
Disallow:/*/contact/schedule-change
Disallow:/*/contact/travel-partners
Disallow: /*/uat/
Disallow: /*/contact/share-feedback/campaigns
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/oci-confirmation/
Disallow: /*/contactez-nous/commentez-experience/oci-confirmation
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/juliet
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/juliet2
Disallow: /*/contactez-nous/commentez-experience/juliet
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/oci-reservation
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/email
Disallow: /*/contact-us/share-feedback/ordertrial
Disallow: /*/contact/share-feedback/oci-confirmation/
Disallow: /*/nous-contacter/commentez-experience/oci-confirmation
Disallow: /*/contact/share-feedback/juliet
Disallow: /*/contact/share-feedback/juliet2
Disallow: /*/nous-contacter/commentez-experience/juliet
Disallow: /*/contact/share-feedback/oci-reservation
Disallow: /*/contact/share-feedback/email
Disallow: /*/contact/share-feedback/ordertrial
Disallow: /*/rewards/credit-cards/50cv
Disallow: /*/recompenses/cartes-credit/50bc
Disallow: /*/hotels/hotel
Disallow: /*/destinations/discover
Disallow: /*/destinations/decouvrir
Disallow: /*/destinations/regions
Disallow: /*/errors/
Disallow: /*/vacations/offers/offer
Disallow: /*/vacances/offres/offer
Disallow: /*/web-data/
Disallow: /book/fixtures/footer

Allow: /
sitemap: https://www.westjet.com/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.westjet.com/book/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.westjet.com/en-ca/book-trip/flights/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.westjet.com/fr-ca/reserver-voyage/vols/sitemap.xml

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 55 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A+

URL Variants

www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS

PASS

www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS

www/non-www redirect configured correctly (preferred: non-www)

HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

302https://www.westjet.com/

200https://westjet.com/

Preferred variant: non-www

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

A+

Domain Intelligence

westjet.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 31 years old, hosted on Akamai

PASS

westjet.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 31 years old, hosted on Akamai

Domain registered until Sep 1, 2026 (4 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: CSC Corporate Domains, 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: Akamai

Got: AS16625

Domain expiry

77 days

September 1, 2026

SSL certificate

307 days

Issued by DigiCert Inc

Domain age

31 years

Registered September 2, 1995

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Akamai

ASN AS16625

23.194.18.73

Registrar

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Unlocked 6 NS records

Expiry timeline

Today

+1 year

Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)

Recommended actions

Renew the domain or enable auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiry
Enable DNSSEC to protect visitors from DNS spoofing
Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers

Registrar CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Created September 2, 1995 (31 years ago)

Expires September 1, 2026 (4 months)

Last Updated August 28, 2025

Name Servers a1-91.akam.net, a11-66.akam.net, a2-67.akam.net, a28-64.akam.net, a4-65.akam.net, a5-66.akam.net

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 23.194.18.73

ASN AS16625 (AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US)

Provider Akamai

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

A+

HTTP Probe Timing

Total 51 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

PASS

DNS Lookup

43 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

5 ms

Time to First Byte

51 ms

Total Time

51 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 43 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 5 ms Server Processing 2 ms Content Transfer 0 ms