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· 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

C
Crawlability
Action
robots.txt present, sitemap with 183 URLs
REVIEW
robots.txt present, sitemap with 183 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 3400 bytes
Critical::
robots.txt blocks all crawlers
Disallow: / for all user-agents prevents search engines from indexing any page. This will remove the site from search results.
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 183 entries
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap

Disallow: / for all user-agents prevents search engines from indexing any page. This will remove the site from search results.

Why this matters

Disallow: / in robots.txt blocks every search crawler — the site becomes invisible in organic search.

Learn more ▾

Common deployment mistake: a staging robots.txt with `User-agent: * / Disallow: /` ships to prod. The site falls out of search results within days. Verify your robots.txt is the production-intended version. If this is intentional (private site), no action needed.

Source: Google Search Central

robots.txt 200 OK
Size 3400 B Sitemaps referenced 11 User-agents proximic, parselybot, SISTRIX, snapchat, googleimageproxy, qwantbot, DeepCrawl, OAI-SearchBot, yisouspider, 360Spider, YandexImages, siteimprovebot, mediapartners-google, bingbot, duckduckbot, Applebot, SeznamBot, admantx, pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4, ZoteroTranslationServer, Google-InspectionTool, AdsBot-Google-Mobile, SemrushBot, SimilarWebBot, AppleNewsBot, AmazonAdBot, OnCrawl, AhrefsBot, linkedinbot, outbrain, DJSEOcrawler, facebot, telegrambot, slurp, Pinterestbot, MojeekBot, google-cloudvertexbot, schema-validator, Storebot-Google, msnbot, Yeti, sentry, petalbot, *, googlebot, Googlebot-Video, AdsBot-Google, yandex, newrelicpinger, uptimerobot, ias_crawler, twitterbot, Iframely, Vocabtracker, GoogleOther, Chrome-Lighthouse, GPTBot, Citoid, smartologybot, Screaming Frog SEO Spider, botify, EpvzCrawl6194680250, bingpreview, yahoo, pubmatic, facebookexternalhit, googlebot-image, AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps, google-read-aloud, flipboard, thetradedesk, ChatGPT-User, baiduspider Blocking Yes — all crawlers blocked
# NOTICE: Collection of content and other data on https://www.barrons.com/ through
# automated means is prohibited unless you have express written
# permission from Dow Jones & Company, Inc. and may only be conducted for the
# limited purpose contained in said permission.
# Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Terms of Use may be found at
# https://www.dowjones.com/terms-of-use/
# If you would like to apply for permission to license the
# intellectual property and/or other materials of Dow Jones & Company, Inc.'s
# brands, please contact us via email at copyright@dowjones.com.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

User-agent: googlebot
User-agent: googlebot-image
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
User-agent: Storebot-Google
User-agent: google-read-aloud
User-agent: mediapartners-google
User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: msnbot
User-agent: bingpreview
User-agent: slurp
User-agent: yahoo
User-agent: yandex
User-agent: YandexImages
User-agent: baiduspider
User-agent: Pinterestbot
User-agent: Yeti
User-agent: MojeekBot
User-agent: 360Spider
User-agent: google-cloudvertexbot
User-agent: duckduckbot
User-agent: petalbot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: AppleNewsBot
User-agent: flipboard
User-agent: qwantbot
User-agent: SeznamBot
User-agent: yisouspider



User-agent: proximic
User-agent: admantx
User-agent: thetradedesk
User-agent: outbrain
User-agent: ias_crawler
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
User-agent: pubmatic
User-agent: smartologybot
User-agent: parselybot


User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
User-agent: DeepCrawl
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: SimilarWebBot
User-agent: SISTRIX
User-agent: OnCrawl
User-agent: botify
User-agent: Chrome-Lighthouse
User-agent: DJSEOcrawler



User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot


User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: facebot
User-agent: twitterbot
User-agent: linkedinbot
User-agent: telegrambot
User-agent: snapchat
User-agent: newrelicpinger
User-agent: siteimprovebot
User-agent: uptimerobot
User-agent: pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4
User-agent: sentry
User-agent: schema-validator
User-agent: googleimageproxy
User-agent: Iframely
User-agent: Vocabtracker
User-agent: EpvzCrawl6194680250
User-agent: Citoid
User-agent: ZoteroTranslationServer


Allow: /

Disallow: /video/search/
Disallow: /market-brief/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /client/login*
Disallow: /login?*
Disallow: /public/
Disallow: /search?*
Disallow: /documents/

User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: /client

Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/bol_news_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/bol_live_news_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/barrons_video_recent.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/sitemaps/web/barrons/en/sitemap_barrons_en_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/sitemaps/web/afp_news/en/sitemap_afp_news_en_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/sitemaps/web/barrons_automated/en/sitemap_barrons_automated_en_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/sitemaps/web/barrons-video/en/sitemap_barrons-video_en_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/barrons/barrons_quote_index_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/finder_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.barrons.com/barrons_advisor_report.xml
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type URL Set URLs 183 entries Valid XML Yes
Sample URLs:
B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
104 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

104
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
AWS CloudFront (LambdaGeneratedResponse from cloudfront)
REVIEW
AWS CloudFront (LambdaGeneratedResponse from cloudfront)
Info::
Site is served via AWS CloudFront CDN (edge: AMS58-P1)
Got: x-amz-cf-id: AyaIdzUVEtkB7HsHv-G02PqG5_ZY_Y8K_X-ZBCNkVu9pfQnbh9Ihsw==
Info::
CDN cache status: LambdaGeneratedResponse from cloudfront
CDN Detected: AWS CloudFront
Provider AWS CloudFront Cache Status LambdaGeneratedResponse from cloudfront Evidence x-amz-cf-id: AyaIdzUVEtkB7HsHv-G02PqG5_ZY_Y8K_X-ZBCNkVu9pfQnbh9Ihsw==
A+
DNS Records
4 A records, 121 ms lookup
PASS
4 A records, 121 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 4 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 18.238.243.27, 18.238.243.110, 18.238.243.66, 18.238.243.6
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
4 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns-1291.awsdns-33.org, ns-1588.awsdns-06.co.uk, ns-450.awsdns-56.com, ns-705.awsdns-24.net
Info::
2 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: 121 ms
Got: 121 ms
A18.238.243.27, 18.238.243.110, 18.238.243.66, 18.238.243.6
AAAA—
CNAME—
NSns-1291.awsdns-33.org, ns-1588.awsdns-06.co.uk, ns-450.awsdns-56.com, ns-705.awsdns-24.net
MX
10 mxb-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.com
10 mxa-00596a01.gslb.pphosted.com
TXT
mongodb-site-verification=7oFjTCQyNYwLnW7o1At8qNbYxR5hLyi0
ValidationTokenValue=76804ce2-d656-497a-88b3-4fb1f1178ad49
brave-ledger-verification=20632f0ee3ef36e2d72cf2b5b23cd14dea88fd08f69bb6e4e16221...
knowbe4-site-verification=0694ce74005828dc4bb8b7299bfb6f61
google-site-verification=svTvJCmrH22N2mnBgPCgVLVz7ysbIUOGcpvJMz-TW8A
google-site-verification=inkaUOw4HtU90IYaP6j8GUW7Rt1HXRCzf05h9_71JDI
yahoo-verification-key=07w3YDtD1ugU9A3gM2IzQWWT+F0PbuLKxec8h7LdmbE=
datadome-domain-verify=mBXJ0OcsBIxmEYtkepO9rBwdPNmfTk5Q
sending_domain858843=1f98502f174243444f325ccc6045167bf02f2bcd4afd56bc8563b7b4aae...
google-site-verification=tplRq9sHwKeb8n0nSf6Of2ewooDGJ7q_wq8L1U2_EEI
miro-verification=fc4f542b1bf4fc981e2f11e463246349bde0a8d0
facebook-domain-verification=r6gvfunzbkdwzzhxp102y02twc8ozt
atlassian-domain-verification=uNoIhBXurxzVlQa0FvK2t9Yld5byfvXbFRQaMToGvrieKjBdyl...
adobe-idp-site-verification=7ef638bb68822798685f96e436bfc87a6f79319dd86369e447b8...
pardot1011511=b5c49419631eabaa4c3cb1de15053afa6bc486252500398e5f83fd6ca9c08b49
docker-verification=e814b8ca-4a92-4bf5-913a-a0c25661d8e5
SPF v=spf1 ip4:68.232.128.0/19 ip4:205.203.96.0/19 ip4:205.203.128.0/19 ip4:63.240.1...
mongodb-site-verification=QxVbQ5yhwUKqSXtszGpWjrhDjVRTtwvL
traction-guest=e4337250-04c9-4060-87ac-df29271721ca
figma-domain-verification=b411f1d2852c2c7e057a2d6d70fb22896f37ccc1412d1e1bb4f9da...
google-site-verification=XkZ6c2efqONK1ZTiCneeZ3UssTPhY1I5UhfxK1P1ZIA
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 121 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), 321 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 321 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://barrons.com → https://www.barrons.com (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://barrons.com

132 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.barrons.com

189 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://barrons.com301132 msHTTP/1.1CloudFront
2https://www.barrons.com401189 msHTTP/1.1CloudFront

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
URL Variants
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
PASS
www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS
Info::
HTTP correctly 301-redirects to HTTPS

www / non-www

401https://www.barrons.com/
200https://barrons.com/

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

A+
Domain Intelligence
barrons.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 31 years, 2 months old, hosted on AWS
PASS
barrons.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 31 years, 2 months old, hosted on AWS
Info::
Domain registered until Jul 31, 2026 (3 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: CSC Corporate Domains, 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: AWS
Got: AS16509
Domain expiry

14 days

July 31, 2026

SSL certificate

104 days

Issued by Amazon

Domain age

31 years, 2 months

Registered August 1, 1995

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

AWS

ASN AS16509

18.238.243.6

Registrar

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Unlocked 4 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 August 1, 1995 (31 years, 2 months ago)
Expires July 31, 2026 (3 months)
Last Updated July 27, 2025
Name Servers ns-1291.awsdns-33.org, ns-1588.awsdns-06.co.uk, ns-450.awsdns-56.com, ns-705.awsdns-24.net
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 18.238.243.6
ASN AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US)
Provider AWS
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 167 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
40 ms
TCP Connect TCP Connect — time to establish a TCP connection to the server.
30 ms
TLS Handshake TLS Handshake — time to complete the HTTPS encryption handshake.
36 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
167 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
168 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 40 ms TCP Connect 30 ms TLS Handshake 36 ms Server Processing 61 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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