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· 9 checks — DNS, redirects, IPv6, crawlability, URL variants, and domain intelligence rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
88
GRADE
B
FIX
0
REVIEW
4
PASS
5
INFO
0
Probed from Madrid, Spain
301 Moved Permanently
Checks
9
5 PASS 4 REVIEW
B
Crawlability
robots.txt present, no sitemap
REVIEW
robots.txt present, no sitemap
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 3056 bytes
Info::
No sitemap.xml found
A sitemap helps search engines discover and index your pages more efficiently.
Info::
robots.txt does not reference a sitemap
Add a 'Sitemap:' directive to robots.txt so search engines can discover your sitemap.

A sitemap helps search engines discover and index your pages more efficiently.

Why this matters

No sitemap.xml — Google relies on crawl-graph discovery alone, slowing indexing of deep or fresh URLs.

Learn more

A sitemap accelerates Google's discovery of new and updated content. Most CMSes auto-generate one; static-site frameworks need a build-step plugin. Reference it from robots.txt and submit in Search Console to confirm Google can fetch it.

Source: sitemaps.org / Google Search Central

Add a 'Sitemap:' directive to robots.txt so search engines can discover your sitemap.

Why this matters

robots.txt omits Sitemap: directive — crawlers must fetch /sitemap.xml by convention; reliable but missing the explicit hint.

Source: sitemaps.org

robots.txt 200 OK
Size 3056 B Sitemaps referenced 0 User-agents * 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: *

Crawl-delay: 5
# CSS, JS, Images

Allow: /core/*.css$

Allow: /core/*.css?

Allow: /core/*.js$

Allow: /core/*.js?

Allow: /core/*.gif

Allow: /core/*.jpg

Allow: /core/*.jpeg

Allow: /core/*.png

Allow: /core/*.svg

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: /profiles/*.svg

# Directories

Disallow: /core/

Disallow: /profiles/

# Files

Disallow: /README.txt

Disallow: /web.config

# 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: /index.php/admin/

Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/

Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips

Disallow: /index.php/node/add/

Disallow: /index.php/search/

Disallow: /index.php/user/password

Disallow: /index.php/user/register

Disallow: /index.php/user/login

Disallow: /index.php/user/logout


# For link-checking site crawlers.

Disallow: /es/node/*

Disallow: /*?combine=

Disallow: /*?*combine=*

Disallow: /*?items_per_page=

Disallow: /*?*items_per_page=*

Disallow: /*/comment/*

Disallow: /*/comment/reply/*

Disallow: /news-events/events-calendar/2018/03/ninth-annual-african-consumer-protection-dialogue-conference

Disallow: /news-events/events-calendar/2018/03/ninth-annual-african-consumer-protection-dialogue-conference/RSVP

Disallow: /news-events/events-calendar/2019/05/tenth-annual-african-consumer-protection-dialogue-conference

Disallow: /sites/default/files/documents/public_statements/joint-fda/ftc-warning-letter-concerning-product-labeling-human-chrorionic-gonadotropin-hcg-drugs/ucm282052.htm

Disallow: /sites/default/files/documents/videos/final-ftc-privacy-report-press-conference/privacyframework.shtm

Disallow: /sites/default/files/documents/public_statements/statement-ftc-chairman-jon-leibowitz-senate-judiciary-committees-passage-preserve-access-affordable.369/pfdvote.shtm

Disallow: /sites/default/files/documents/public_statements/statement-ftc-chairman-jon-leibowitz-regarding-announcement-arthur-d.levinson-has-resigned-googles-board/google.shtm

Disallow: /sites/default/files/documents/public_statements/statement-ftc-chairman-jon-leibowitz-passage-h.r.3126-consumer-financial-protection-act-2009-house-energy-and-commerce-committee/cfpa.shtm


sitemap.xml No sitemap found

No sitemap found

Adding a sitemap helps search engines discover your pages.

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.ftc.gov/
200https://ftc.gov/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

301http://ftc.gov/ https://www.ftc.gov/

Consistent

B
TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations
293 days until leaf cert expires — 2 issues to address
REVIEW

Certificate validity

293
days left
0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

  • Add includeSubDomains to the HSTS directive
  • Enable OCSP stapling on your TLS server to remove a CA roundtrip and protect user privacy
B
CDN & Delivery
Akamai
REVIEW
Akamai
Info::
Site is served via Akamai CDN
Got: server header
CDN Detected: Akamai
Provider Akamai Evidence server header
A+
DNS Records
1 A records, 49 ms lookup
PASS
1 A records, 49 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 1 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 2.22.14.109
Info::
Single A record — no DNS redundancy
Multiple A records provide failover if one server goes down.
Info::
Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)
Got: 2a02:26f0:5d00:1b5::2031, 2a02:26f0:5d00:1a0::2031
Info::
6 nameserver(s) configured
Got: a24-67.akam.net, a7-67.akam.net, a6-66.akam.net, a26-64.akam.net, a3-65.akam.net, a1-252.akam.net
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
Info::
DNS resolution time: 49 ms
Got: 49 ms
A2.22.14.109
AAAA2a02:26f0:5d00:1b5::2031, 2a02:26f0:5d00:1a0::2031
CNAME
NSa24-67.akam.net, a7-67.akam.net, a6-66.akam.net, a26-64.akam.net, a3-65.akam.net, a1-252.akam.net
MX
0 ftc-gov.mail.protection.outlook.com
TXT
identrust_validate=AW6O5chGVEhxWmmFGKoMLN8DZRwEsR4bmAtOrkHPfkc9
adobe-sign-verification=6aef5f85dec2584b6bd8bc23abb2418c2fd5746c6b72586f884b9830...
google-site-verification=VemqQV9Hiv6MzI1B0hzhRq4mlC2mVvs5qUUog19MRso
apple-domain-verification=yDCeSJ81y3pXRCi0
MS=ms26536772
NzWLUncbdZVFeNNXMttXmWGCtTfPC610lVN0DG4twtsHL/fF6nVZ55r7BqRBAwnrzb076GaeoI+KR/D6...
identrust_validate=ba+DUU6G9a65f8A1q6tau3K4bx5bi/29LZlwh82DrgPG
dwgyAlEH+VVQ4N58bmeEgHt3HhajTjhhUm+VEY/orFKBEvH2dcjCEBgIw9usDqvfE4etnbgRlB9RalHv...
ab+sBVXiIC82wNktOPIy6RX8agj5Evkxyo85mpdxHboRO0smOB8QUksAASKBEFW1yz9vbMdeFb6kz3Gk...
hpe-greenlake-domain-verification=6f677033714443654164395339726174365a7544727047...
facebook-domain-verification=i064e2y03lievnt3ubarreperwg6mf
cisco-ci-domain-verification=25cadc1688da051ffa2539c464e864ec4aaefd22a584a0251e9...
_1uh7vlyjwgxcx9s3ta4wt22y61atfjq
adobe-idp-site-verification=a832eee07863ffdf3f5fdfc757918cff06c414cc6426d443d893...
MS=ms80119051
SPF v=spf1 mx include:spf1.ftc.gov include:spf2.ftc.gov -all
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 49 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), 387 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 387 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://ftc.gov → https://www.ftc.gov/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://ftc.gov

95 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.ftc.gov/

292 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://ftc.gov30195 msHTTP/1.1AkamaiGHost
2https://www.ftc.gov/200292 msHTTP/1.1

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
IPv6 Readiness
IPv6 reachable (25 ms)
PASS
IPv6 reachable (25 ms)
Info::
IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2a02:26f0:5d00:1b5::2031, 2a02:26f0:5d00:1a0::2031
Got: 25 ms connect
IPv6 Ready
AAAA Records 2a02:26f0:5d00:1b5::2031, 2a02:26f0:5d00:1a0::2031 Connection Reachable (25 ms)
A
Domain Intelligence
ftc.gov — via get.gov, 28 years, 11 months old
PASS
ftc.gov — via get.gov, 28 years, 11 months old
Warning::
Domain expires in 76 days
Consider enabling auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiration.
Got: Expires Jul 7, 2026
Info::
DNSSEC is enabled
Info::
Registrar: get.gov
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.
Domain expiry

EXPIRED

July 7, 2026

SSL certificate

293 days

Issued by DigiCert Inc

Domain age

28 years, 11 months

Registered October 2, 1997

DNSSEC

Enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Unknown

2a02:26f0:5d00:1b5::2031

Registrar

get.gov

Unlocked 6 NS records
Expiry timeline
Today
+1 year
Domain expiry SSL expiry Danger zone (≤30 days)
Recommended actions
  • Domain has EXPIRED — renew immediately to avoid total site outage
  • Enable registrar lock (clientTransferProhibited) to block unauthorized domain transfers
Registrar get.gov
Created October 2, 1997 (28 years, 11 months ago)
Expires July 7, 2026 (2 months)
Last Updated February 12, 2026
Name Servers a1-252.akam.net, a24-67.akam.net, a26-64.akam.net, a3-65.akam.net, a6-66.akam.net, a7-67.akam.net
DNSSEC Enabled
Registrant REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Hosting
IP Address 2a02:26f0:5d00:1b5::2031
Data source: rdap (0.4s)

Consider enabling auto-renewal to prevent accidental expiration.

Why this matters

Domain expiry approaching — renew immediately and ensure auto-renew + alerting are configured.

Source: ICANN renewal policy

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 138 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
54 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.
28 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
138 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
138 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 54 ms TCP Connect 26 ms TLS Handshake 28 ms Server Processing 31 ms Content Transfer 0 ms
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