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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
86
GRADE
B
FIX
1
REVIEW
3
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
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.fasthosts.co.uk/
200https://fasthosts.co.uk/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://fasthosts.co.uk/ https://fasthosts.co.uk/

Consistent

B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
45 days until leaf cert expires — 4 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

45
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Prefer TLS 1.3 — TLS 1.2 is acceptable but TLS 1.3 removes RSA key exchange and improves latency
  • 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, 36 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 36 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 213.171.195.48
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
4 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns-fh.ui-dns.co.uk, ns-fh.ui-dns.org, ns-fh.ui-dns.com, ns-fh.ui-dns.biz
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: 36 ms
Got: 36 ms
A213.171.195.48
AAAA
CNAME
NSns-fh.ui-dns.co.uk, ns-fh.ui-dns.org, ns-fh.ui-dns.com, ns-fh.ui-dns.biz
MX
5 mxint01.1and1.com
5 mxint02.1and1.com
TXT
google-site-verification=F4yJWtpnuFpvLcuJAubbcUFZDc0bIPoAzZVlAe5xdno
Bc+upypkROiDLZOAFS2JODpB2JA2gnawaVvdkyQ8pzuXMANG9kNt0gHWFWxROkHmUVH+/P5aiZPK+M9p...
q9r9911gzs1xjyjn0j1b2ycdvqgctbfb
vbs08ks35p66vp7hwl9crrvtlb3ls5g7
pardot1056043=ea39a1c1204cf114dc5cefc97c35abf7b45b969b4d51efba599be2a384a48ea7
SPF v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:rnmk.com include:sparkpostmail.com ip4:21...
have-i-been-pwned-verification=b2a3297d613256f3de1f84bed8007c76
h1mf8chh283xbxgltsd00243fb8rxxbm
KUZYvvU9gAYjgf2yQOPhoMqbRrilaHMy9GZ4kCK9wCg/X1tDJWnNIkJINNge981RdTxQQX9ix6MNhErc...
_mxs407nzuwrjfpmlrmk9omd4ld0w163
_6uzptbb4w7y981vqyx7y18np8eo47tz
v79dvpb28f7dn4xpmy9pr6s9qhvg9r3j
google-site-verification=t7GUD-X_CxOaYRVp4wFB1Vte9CuF1SigjmoWUHa0-6Y
_hchbi8t4m5itikkkh6bd8b2tonm9b90
yahoo-verification-key=KsJQt+lOFrq3/MrHJBcmhk+apbCcJk1d049HeptUx6g=
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 36 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
Redirect Chain
1 redirect(s), 357 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 357 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://fasthosts.co.uk → https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://fasthosts.co.uk

139 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/

218 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://fasthosts.co.uk301139 msHTTP/1.1
2https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/200218 msHTTP/1.1Apache/2.4.62 (Rocky Linux)

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 500 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 500 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 2855 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 500 entries
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 2855 B Sitemaps referenced 2 User-agents AdsBot-Google, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, * Blocking No — crawling allowed
#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /misc/*.css$
Allow: /misc/*.css?
Allow: /misc/*.js$
Allow: /misc/*.js?
Allow: /misc/*.gif
Allow: /misc/*.jpg
Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
Allow: /misc/*.png
Allow: /modules/*.css$
Allow: /modules/*.css?
Allow: /modules/*.js$
Allow: /modules/*.js?
Allow: /modules/*.gif
Allow: /modules/*.jpg
Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
Allow: /modules/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /themes/*.css$
Allow: /themes/*.css?
Allow: /themes/*.js$
Allow: /themes/*.js?
Allow: /themes/*.gif
Allow: /themes/*.jpg
Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
Allow: /themes/*.png

# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
Disallow: /sites/
Disallow: /ppc/
Disallow: /partnerships/

# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/

# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/
Disallow: /ddosproxy-check
Disallow: /domain-names/search/

Allow: /contact

Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /configure/*
Disallow: /checkout/*
Disallow: /auth/*
Disallow: /_nuxt/*
Disallow: /dev/*
Disallow: /*.ico?v=*
Disallow: */?p=*page/*page/*page/*
Disallow: */?p*page/*page/*page/*
Disallow: /blog/?s=*
Disallow: */?ref=fasthosts-blogpage/*page/*
Disallow: */?ref=fasthosts.co.uk*/*page/*

Sitemap: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/blog/sitemap.xml

A+
Domain Intelligence
fasthosts.co.uk — via InterNetx GmbH, 27 years, 7 months old, hosted on IONOS
PASS
fasthosts.co.uk — via InterNetx GmbH, 27 years, 7 months old, hosted on IONOS
Info::
Domain registered until Jan 23, 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: InterNetx GmbH
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: IONOS
Got: AS8560
Domain expiry

189 days

January 23, 2027

SSL certificate

45 days

Issued by Sectigo Limited

Domain age

27 years, 7 months

Registered January 23, 1999

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

IONOS

ASN AS8560

213.171.195.48

Registrar

InterNetx GmbH

Unlocked 4 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 InterNetx GmbH
Created January 23, 1999 (27 years, 7 months ago)
Expires January 23, 2027 (9 months)
Last Updated July 7, 2025
Name Servers ns-fh.ui-dns.biz., ns-fh.ui-dns.co.uk., ns-fh.ui-dns.com., ns-fh.ui-dns.org.
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 213.171.195.48
ASN AS8560 (IONOS-AS This is the joint network for IONOS, Fasthosts, Arsys, 1&1 Mail and Media and 1&1 Telecom. Formerly known as 1&1 Internet SE., DE)
Provider IONOS
Data source: rdap (0.4s)

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

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 36 ms TCP Connect 26 ms TLS Handshake 70 ms Server Processing 61 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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