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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 Singapore, Singapore
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.haaretz.com/
200https://haaretz.com/

Inconsistent — duplicate content risk

HTTP → HTTPS

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

Consistent

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

Certificate validity

183
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
4 A records, 79 ms lookup
PASS
4 A records, 79 ms lookup
Info::
Resolves to 4 IPv4 address(es)
Got: 151.101.2.217, 151.101.130.217, 151.101.66.217, 151.101.194.217
Info::
No IPv6 (AAAA) records
Info::
4 nameserver(s) configured
Got: ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com
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: 79 ms
Got: 79 ms
A151.101.2.217, 151.101.130.217, 151.101.66.217, 151.101.194.217
AAAA—
CNAME—
NSns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com
MX
5 activetrail.haaretz.com
50 sendmail.haaretz.com
TXT
_globalsign-domain-verification=35ZRSeiG5b6pUaE2bZixFmI2klqCL7g1EeCkLoQosd
godaddy-domain-verification=isiqash05rpi75t484hnid70io
_globalsign-domain-verification=xfkrv3yRwA5GGm0E4l5RlcNKTqVD8KAYsYdCYTBMF0
SPF v=spf1 a mx include:mymarketing.co.il include:activetrail.com ip4:35.210.93.228/...
facebook-domain-verification=tfa8s1odd5skpw6v1j03a5d5c2jl2h
CAALookup not available with standard resolver
Resolved in 79 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), 20 ms total
PASS
1 redirect(s), 20 ms total
Info::
Single redirect
Got: https://haaretz.com → https://www.haaretz.com/ (301)
Info::
WWW normalization redirect

https://haaretz.com

11 ms · HTTP/1.1

301

https://www.haaretz.com/

9 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#URLStatusTimeProtocolServer
1https://haaretz.com30111 msHTTP/1.1Varnish
2https://www.haaretz.com/2009 msHTTP/1.1istio-envoy

See the visual redirect chain in the HTTP Probe tab →

A+
Crawlability
robots.txt present, sitemap with 287 URLs
PASS
robots.txt present, sitemap with 287 URLs
Info::
robots.txt is present
Got: 3679 bytes
Info::
sitemap.xml is present
Info::
sitemap.xml is valid XML
Info::
sitemap.xml contains 287 entries
Info::
Sitemap index with 287 child sitemaps
Info::
robots.txt references sitemap
robots.txt 200 OK
Size 3679 B Sitemaps referenced 3 User-agents MyCentralAIScraperBot, NewsNow, Amazonbot, Claude-User, Quora-Bot, cohere-ai, Googlebot-News, AliyunSecBot, Arquivo-web-crawler, OAI-SearchBot, YouBot, FacebookBot, Google-CloudVertexBot, Meta-ExternalFetcher, MoodleBot, peer39_crawler/1.0, AudigentAdBot, JenkersBot, coccocbot-web, omgilibot, Bytespider, ChatGPT-User, Claude-Web, SeznamBot, *, ImagesiftBot, Mojeek, yacybot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, EchoboxBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, news-please, PerplexityBot, SentiOne, AwarioSmartBot, BLEXBot, DataForSeoBot, SeekrBot, TurnitinBot, Scrapy, YandexAdditional, Claude-SearchBot, TaraGroup Intelligent Bot, ViennaTinyBot, anthropic-ai, GPTBot, omgili, PetalBot, Timpibot, peer39_crawler, ClaudeBot, Diffbot, Google-Extended, Perplexity-User, Poseidon Research Crawler, SeznamHomepageCrawler, YandexAdditionalBot, AwarioRssBot, FriendlyCrawler, IfatSearch Blocking No — crawling allowed
User-agent: *
Disallow: */mypromotions
Disallow: */misc/sitemap-page
Disallow: */misc/article-print-page/*
Disallow: */misc/iphone-blog-article/*
Disallow: */misc/comment-page/*
Disallow: */hasen/*
Disallow: */captain/*
Disallow: */9401/*
Disallow: */nyt/*
Disallow: */mobile/*
Disallow: */news/international/*
Disallow: /9039763/*
Disallow: */misc/comment-page/*
Disallow: */misc/adxtest1/*
Disallow: */misc/search-results/*
Disallow: */search-results*
Disallow: */misc/all-today-s-headlines/*
Disallow: */json/cmlink/*
Disallow: */smadar*
Disallow: /*2.12984*
Disallow: /*2.169*
Disallow: */papi*
Disallow: *1.5460918*
Disallow: */wires*
Disallow: *1.7362185*
Disallow: */polopoly_fs*
Disallow: *cmlink/*
Disallow: *dailybrief*
Disallow: *mobileApp/*
Disallow: /*misc/tabletapp*
Disallow: */misc/haaretzcomsmartphoneapp* 
Disallow: */misc/iphone-article/* 
Disallow: */outbrain*
Disallow: */fckeditor*
Disallow: /api/proxy
Disallow: /_track*

Disallow: /*ipAcl*
Disallow: /api-gateway/*
Disallow: *?*sa-*
Disallow: /*?cache=
Disallow: /*ads/*

Disallow: /*?expand=true
Disallow: /gql/bs?operationName=*

Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.js
Allow: /.well-known/amphtml/apikey.pub

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.haaretz.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.haaretz.com/news-sitemap-content.xml
Sitemap: https://www.haaretz.com/news-sitemap-latest.xml

# Disallow Rules

User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: AudigentAdBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: IfatSearch
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: JenkersBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mojeek
Disallow: /

User-agent: MoodleBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SentiOne
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamBot
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: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: coccocbot-web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: yacybot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /labels
Disallow: /nyt*
sitemap.xml 200 OK
Type Sitemap Index URLs 287 entries Valid XML Yes
Child Sitemaps:
A+
Domain Intelligence
haaretz.com — via Moniker Online Services LLC, 29 years, 1 months old, hosted on Fastly
PASS
haaretz.com — via Moniker Online Services LLC, 29 years, 1 months old, hosted on Fastly
Info::
Domain registered until Aug 19, 2028 (2 years, 4 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: Moniker Online Services LLC
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

795 days

August 19, 2028

SSL certificate

183 days

Issued by GlobalSign nv-sa

Domain age

29 years, 1 months

Registered August 20, 1997

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Fastly

ASN AS54113

151.101.194.217

Registrar

Moniker Online Services LLC

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 Moniker Online Services LLC
Created August 20, 1997 (29 years, 1 months ago)
Expires August 19, 2028 (2 years, 4 months)
Last Updated November 25, 2025
Name Servers ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com
DNSSEC Not enabled
Hosting
IP Address 151.101.194.217
ASN AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US)
Provider Fastly
Data source: rdap (1.0s)

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 11 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown
PASS
DNS Lookup DNS Lookup — time to resolve the domain name to an IP address.
5 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.
5 ms
Time to First Byte Time to First Byte — how long the server takes to respond with the first byte of data.
12 ms
Total Time Total request time from DNS lookup through full response.
12 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 5 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 5 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-sin-wsat1880034-SIN
Info::
CDN cache status: HIT
CDN Detected: Fastly
Provider Fastly Cache Status HIT Evidence x-served-by: cache-sin-wsat1880034-SIN
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