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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
87
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
3
PASS
6
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
6 PASS 3 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.nytimes.com/
200https://nytimes.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

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

Certificate validity

150
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Submit your domain to hstspreload.org to be added to the Chrome preload list
  • 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, 76 ms lookup
PASS
4 A records, 76 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 4 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 151.101.129.164, 151.101.65.164, 151.101.1.164, 151.101.193.164
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
8 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns-635.awsdns-15.net, dns2.p06.nsone.net, ns-1652.awsdns-14.co.uk, dns3.p06.nsone.net, dns4.p06.nsone.net, dns1.p06.nsone.net, ns-1328.awsdns-38.org, ns-244.awsdns-30.com
Info::
5 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: 76 ms
Got: 76 ms
A151.101.129.164, 151.101.65.164, 151.101.1.164, 151.101.193.164
AAAA—
CNAME—
NSns-635.awsdns-15.net, dns2.p06.nsone.net, ns-1652.awsdns-14.co.uk, dns3.p06.nsone.net, dns4.p06.nsone.net, dns1.p06.nsone.net, ns-1328.awsdns-38.org, ns-244.awsdns-30.com
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com
TXT
google-site-verification=jZcmQFxPEP38yqYpmRvo0v_9hQFAdBZPUEBwTNUPUF8
google-site-verification=dNxU4aqYrP-m9U4J4OO_hvaOfjepywv2BN8Luc-q4o8
google-site-verification=ZsySMeZ_SRbJZFu-53ptepytP7h5pxHO0qAg8Z2bKug
cursor-domain-verification-cbqk6b=DdvvVJNHMmVswd6oRmD8GZX50
klaviyo-site-verification=PkxYaQ
dell-technologies-domain-verification=nytimes.com_e9803e4c-210b-4501-a26b-705148...
lucidlink-verification=PZP4S4XGS2MW9TT3H76V0TPSY0
docusign=6a4f88fd-cd2f-4917-acdb-bb2f343438a1
segment-site-verification=Z6wALFPYli6z0AlPlgjZXpMVRLZ2KiRb
adobe-idp-site-verification=5ce4d99c-af0a-4b76-9217-bd49d3336df0
google-site-verification=NIqXa_F8IaqdPJhTtexgR0NYbzVLD_-X-uRUvyf4GyQ
google-site-verification=ZTCMdpSKM7HwqTvGUf_00Ef008JhOnbzGgCSUGYfsro
google-site-verification=OJl4BugQ_esE20V0QtVc9DhqvnnxOLHnf5AmFjdLSqk
wrike-verification=NjYxMTMwODpmZGRiNmQ3Yjc1Yzk5NjFhMDk2OWI4MWM2NDhkZmYxNjdmOThhO...
MS=A1BFCA84E21B7011CA98DF9DC251CDDF90E0174B
dropbox-domain-verification=4ld3jahx0psi
google-site-verification=aReMr8hkX3gxeHLKKk4tJ1s970U7QdEqUMIhMmLUfjQ
google-site-verification=4TE2ggBoy6PktLjtZ03t32A2oEZ0VD0PY6MnTj8IL_g
google-site-verification=tvhSn0gaSi6CUrrc9N1pvq4tmJrzvbfJbKVWPrgg_6Q
SPF v=spf1 include:nytimes.com._nspf.vali.email include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._sp...
miro-verification=ee856857f05022ca58c04ab6f8e4014e564b3d6b
docusign=bd506110-db79-430e-b159-cc1d74fe1176
atlassian-domain-verification=Vrn33GZgJTapfeggl1snZZ5a8HjNwfFb1K5kBxVNhp7jlMFlRZ...
klaviyo-site-verification=NsTtn9
MS=ms22827202
onetrust-domain-verification=dee1266d6a984549b43a1bd101957a8f
onetrust-domain-verification=1e62f8d767fc41a39fdf3f77025a8105
ZOOM_verify_ClSSgAI2bqqZQA66rT4Z1x
masv=oFbRBdtBUCoWWHaQiRJLZcKASUJZboJz
NV=6b9b6zcshr98ey1x
jamf-site-verification=PIprfFrz8CBhH0TK0nNhnQ
wiz-domain-verification=f58277d3dd68296f29aace3a12b746a054eee9f6c472f21673207cfc...
apple-domain-verification=1BVLidj37w9zRMnU
253961548-4297453
google-site-verification=4qJm5sAZa1_29BTwFjqW09t7_7D4Vee3LBFQqg8xYbs
google-site-verification=q5oM_szMOT79db0AJjdk_JP1xeurksaWmhbv_dd-MEM
atlassian-sending-domain-verification=1b4b110f-a2dd-4853-8b13-de36c831aa81
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 76 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), 222 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 222 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://nytimes.com → https://www.nytimes.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://nytimes.com

5 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.nytimes.com/

217 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://nytimes.com3015 msHTTP/1.1Varnish
2https://www.nytimes.com/200217 msHTTP/1.1envoy

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 711 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 711 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 8186 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 711 entries
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 8186 B Sitemaps referenced 24 User-agents Claude-SearchBot, DataForSeoBot, GPTBot, Scrapy, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-WebIndexer, omgilibot, ViennaTinyBot, RedditBot, meta-externalagent, meta-externalfetcher, MyCentralAIScraperBot, SeekrBot, AmazonBot, BLEXBot, news-please, AwarioRssBot, Diffbot, Jetslide, Meta-ExternalFetcher, TaraGroup Intelligent Bot, Twitterbot, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot, AudigentAdBot, AwarioSmartBot, Claude-User, cohere-ai, FriendlyCrawler, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, EchoboxBot, Google-Extended, NewsNow, quillbot.com, FacebookBot, Google-CloudVertexBot, Googlebot, Applebot-Extended, Perplexity-User, Poseidon Research Crawler, SeznamHomepageCrawler, TurnitinBot, archive.org_bot, peer39_crawler/1.0, anthropic-ai, omgili, peer39_crawler, YouBot, AliyunSecBot, AmazonAdBot, facebookexternalhit, *, Bytespider, CCBot, DuckAssistBot, ImagesiftBot, magpie-crawler, meta-webindexer/1.1, Quora-Bot, ClaudeBot, Timpibot Blocking No — crawling allowed
# New York Times content is made available for your personal, non-commercial
# use subject to our Terms of Service here:
# https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service.
# Use of any device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the content
# using automated means is prohibited without prior written permission from
# The New York Times Company.  Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining activities under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in
# the Digital Single Market;
# (2) the development of any software, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI),
# and/or large language models (LLMs);
# (3) creating or providing archived or cached data sets containing our content to others; and/or
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact https://nytlicensing.com/contact/ for assistance.

User-agent: *
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /ads/
Disallow: /adx/bin/
Disallow: /athletic/wp/wp-admin/
Allow: /athletic/wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /athletic/async-*
Disallow: /athletic/search/*
Allow: /athletic/search/$
Disallow: /athletic/checkout/
Disallow: /athletic/checkout?plan_id*
Allow: /athletic/checkout/$
Disallow: /athletic/checkout2*
Disallow: /athletic/login/
Disallow: /athletic/login?login_source*
Disallow: /athletic/login?ref_page*
Allow: /athletic/login/$
Disallow: /athletic/login2/
Disallow: /athletic/login2?login_source*
Disallow: /athletic/login2?ref_page*
Allow: /athletic/login2/$
Disallow: /athletic/report/
Disallow: /athletic/*/discuss/*
Disallow: /athletic/register/
Disallow: /athletic/register?welcome_redirect*
Disallow: /athletic/register2/
Disallow: /athletic/register2?welcome_redirect*
Disallow: /athletic/betmgm-redirect*
Disallow: /athletic/cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /athletic/verizon/*
Disallow: /athletic/forgot-password/*
Disallow: /athletic/forgot-password2/*
Disallow: /athletic/amp-social-login*
Disallow: /athletic/track-analytics/
Disallow: /athletic/amp-auth/
Disallow: /athletic/rss-feed/
Disallow: /athletic/*?*rss=1
Disallow: /athletic/global-color-test.php
Disallow: /athletic/global-font-test.php
Disallow: /athletic/graphql*
Disallow: /athletic/api*
Disallow: /athletic/ip*
Disallow: /athletic/call-set-cookie-with-context/*
Disallow: /athletic/get-current-user/
Disallow: /athletic/pv.json
Disallow: /athletic/following-feed-test/*
Disallow: /athletic*/boxscore/*
Disallow: /athletic/feed-test/
Disallow: /athletic*/signed-mp3-redirect-url/*
Disallow: /athletic/embedded-interactive/*
Disallow: /card/panel/
Disallow: /panel/
Disallow: /puzzles/leaderboards/invite/*
Disallow: /svc
Allow: /svc/crosswords
Allow: /svc/games
Allow: /svc/letter-boxed
Allow: /svc/spelling-bee
Allow: /svc/wordle
Allow: /svc/connections
Allow: /svc/sudoku
Allow: /svc/strands
Allow: /svc/pips
Disallow: /video/embedded/*
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /multiproduct/
Disallow: /hd/
Disallow: /inyt/
Disallow: /*?*query=
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /*?*login=
Disallow: /*?*searchResultPosition=
Disallow: /*?*campaignId=
Disallow: /*?*mcubz=
Disallow: /*?*smprod=
Disallow: /*?*ProfileID=
Disallow: /*?*ListingID=
Disallow: /*?*campaign_id=
Disallow: /*?*hybrid=
Disallow: /*?*entry=
Disallow: /*?*embed=
Disallow: /*?ls=
Disallow: /*?*&ls=
Disallow: /wirecutter/wp-admin/
Disallow: /wirecutter/*.zip$
Disallow: /wirecutter/*.csv$
Disallow: /wirecutter/deals/beta
Disallow: /wirecutter/data-requests
Disallow: /wirecutter/search
Disallow: /wirecutter/*?s=
Disallow: /wirecutter/*&xid=
Disallow: /wirecutter/*?q=
Disallow: /wirecutter/*?l=
Disallow: /wirecutter/*?merchant=
Disallow: /wirecutter/out/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /subscription/*?*source=
Disallow: /subscription/*?*onboarded=
Disallow: /*?*smid=
Disallow: /*?*partner=
Disallow: /*?*utm_source=
Allow: /wirecutter/*?*utm_source=
Allow: /ads/public/
Allow: /svc/news/v3/all/pshb.rss
Allow: /wirecutter/reviews/*?*utm_source=
Allow: /wirecutter/blog/*?*utm_source=
Allow: /wirecutter/lists/*?*utm_source=
Allow: /wirecutter/gifts/*?*utm_source=


# Googlebot Specific Rules

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /athletic*adgroupid*
Disallow: /athletic*campaignid*
Disallow: /athletic*ad_id*
Disallow: /athletic*access_token*
Disallow: /athletic*amp_reader_id*
Disallow: /athletic*/?source=*
Disallow: /athletic/*?*embed=1


# Disallow Rules

User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonBot
Disallow: /wirecutter/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AudigentAdBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /wirecutter/
Allow: /athletic/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Jetslide
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer
User-agent: meta-webindexer/1.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler
User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: quillbot.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ViennaTinyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /


# Ad Bot Rules

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /


# Social Bot Rules

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /*?*smid=

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /*?*smid=

User-agent: RedditBot
Allow: /*?*smid=

# Sitemaps

Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/news.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/collections.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/video.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/cooking.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/recipe-collects.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/regions.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/best-sellers.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/subscription-landing-pages.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/weather.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/espanol.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/espanol-collects.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-videos-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-authors.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-verticals.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-teams.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-cities.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-tags.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-stats.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-schedule.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-roster.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/games-assets/v2/assets/sitemap/games.xml
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type URL Set URLs 711 entries Valid XML Yes
Sample URLs:
A+
Domain Intelligence
nytimes.com — via MarkMonitor Inc., 32 years, 8 months old, hosted on Fastly
PASS
nytimes.com — via MarkMonitor Inc., 32 years, 8 months old, hosted on Fastly
Info::
Domain registered until Jan 19, 2027 (9 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: MarkMonitor Inc.
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

219 days

January 19, 2027

SSL certificate

150 days

Issued by DigiCert Inc

Domain age

32 years, 8 months

Registered January 18, 1994

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Fastly

ASN AS54113

151.101.65.164

Registrar

MarkMonitor Inc.

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 MarkMonitor Inc.
Created January 18, 1994 (32 years, 8 months ago)
Expires January 19, 2027 (9 months)
Last Updated December 18, 2024
Name Servers dns1.p06.nsone.net, dns2.p06.nsone.net, dns3.p06.nsone.net, dns4.p06.nsone.net, ns-1328.awsdns-38.org, ns-1652.awsdns-14.co.uk, ns-244.awsdns-30.com, ns-635.awsdns-15.net
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 151.101.65.164
ASN AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)
Provider Fastly
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 25 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
21 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
1 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
2 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
25 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
26 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 21 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 2 ms Server Processing 1 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
A+
CDN & Delivery
Fastly (HIT)
PASS
Fastly (HIT)
Info::
Site is served via Fastly CDN
Got: x-served-by: cache-toj-leto2350029-TOJ
Info::
CDN cache status: HIT
CDN Detected: Fastly
Provider Fastly Cache Status HIT Evidence x-served-by: cache-toj-leto2350029-TOJ
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