Infrastructure - https://lifehacker.com BeaverCheck Audit

B

URL Variants

www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS

REVIEW

www/non-www, trailing slash, HTTP→HTTPS

www/non-www redirect configured correctly (preferred: non-www)

HTTP version does not redirect to HTTPS

Got: HTTP 200 Expected: 301 redirect to HTTPS

www / non-www

301https://www.lifehacker.com/

200https://lifehacker.com/

Preferred variant: non-www

HTTP → HTTPS

200http://lifehacker.com/

HTTP version does not redirect to HTTPS

B

TLS Certificate Expiry & Recommendations

60 days until leaf cert expires — 3 issues to address

REVIEW

Certificate validity

60

days left

0d 30d 60d 90d+

Recommended actions

Add the preload directive and submit to hstspreload.org once max-age + includeSubDomains are in place
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

2 A records, 5 ms lookup

PASS

2 A records, 5 ms lookup

Resolves to 2 IPv4 address(es)

Got: 104.18.34.146, 172.64.153.110

Has 2 IPv6 (AAAA) record(s)

Got: 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2292, 2606:4700:4405::ac40:996e

2 nameserver(s) configured

Got: aria.ns.cloudflare.com, owen.ns.cloudflare.com

5 mail exchanger(s) configured

CAA records not checked

CAA record lookup requires a specialized DNS resolver. This check will be available in a future update.

SPF record present in TXT

DNS resolution time: 5 ms

Got: 5 ms

A	104.18.34.146, 172.64.153.110
AAAA	2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2292, 2606:4700:4405::ac40:996e
CNAME	—
NS	aria.ns.cloudflare.com, owen.ns.cloudflare.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	_globalsign-domain-verification=63GY7DdhmEwU6Yc6mPqIRV6Tlu3atl9B6izj643Qy2 docusign=98fb1fe5-0c2f-4d46-8a16-d26f42ce6628 figma-domain-verification=4f7cdfa45ca39f617dd7ba7b165e1bfd5e9b5e1ec18b849c6098df... google-site-verification=1PrZ4hixugKDZCeBh7I-2ThKU_llLGdh_Optmlr77uI google-site-verification=3DLUukA4-5eOiZ71hPqAcv2gN-5Dw7pF1T4UtabDr6k google-site-verification=GgOdzhtK93paB6luM-25so6z5U9ndsLcqOAIM8CRYh0 google-site-verification=pI4-xVT5VS5ZbgMFxXhUBmm8q_PO3q9nsClEuGUMVJI onetrust-domain-verification=cea86b2c01e84a158a1b440879c93f7b tollbit-domain-verification=8b5157c69c2d7498cb3604b2fb66d3b1a6bd013cee508660f56f... SPF v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.emailcampaigns.net -all
CAA	Lookup not available with standard resolver

Resolved in 5 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

No redirects — direct access

PASS

No redirects — direct access

Got: https://lifehacker.com

https://lifehacker.com

46 ms · HTTP/1.1 FINAL

#	URL	Status	Time	Protocol	Server
1	https://lifehacker.com	200	46 ms	HTTP/1.1	cloudflare

A+

IPv6 Readiness

IPv6 reachable (1 ms)

PASS

IPv6 reachable (1 ms)

IPv6 is configured and reachable at 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2292, 2606:4700:4405::ac40:996e

Got: 1 ms connect

IPv6 Ready

AAAA Records 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2292, 2606:4700:4405::ac40:996e Connection Reachable (1 ms)

A+

Crawlability

robots.txt present, sitemap with 88 URLs

PASS

robots.txt present, sitemap with 88 URLs

robots.txt is present

Got: 7869 bytes

sitemap.xml is present

sitemap.xml is valid XML

sitemap.xml contains 88 entries

Sitemap index with 88 child sitemaps

robots.txt references sitemap

robots.txt 200 OK

Size 7869 B Sitemaps referenced 2 User-agents Big Sur AI, GPTBot, meta-webindexer, Diffbot, ICC-Crawler, Kangaroo Bot, laion-huggingface-processor, LinkupBot, LINER Bot, MistralAI-User, QualifiedBot, Bravebot, ChatGLM-Spider, Claude-SearchBot, Echobot Bot, Factset_spyderbot, LCC, AmazonBuyForMe, ClaudeBot, Cotoyogi, SeekrBot, Offline Explorer, Amazonbot, atlassian-bot, DeepSeekBot, Perplexity-User, Spider, Velen Crawler, VelenPublicWebCrawler, ZanistaBot, AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, AwarioSmartBot, iAsk, Novellum AI Crawl, SBIntuitionsBot, Timpibot, Claude-Web, meta-externalagent, PanguBot, PeopleInc-DCipher-Scraper/1.1.0, Scrapy, Anchor Browser, AutoRAG, Crawl4AI, iaskspider, mistral.ai, NovaAct, SemrushBot-OCOB, Nutch, imageSpider, PetalBot, SemrushBotSwa, Applebot-extended, Manus-User, Webzio-Extended, *, "008", HTTrack, ChatGPT-User, FacebookBot, meta-externalfetcher, TwinAgent, AddSearchBot, anthropic-ai, Brandwatch, cohere-ai, ImageSiftBot, Kunato, LinerBot, netEstate Imprint Crawler, cohere-training-data-crawler, Datenbank Crawler, Devin, Direqt Anomura, ICC Crawler, Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval, Applebot, Channel3Bot, Claude-User, Poggio-Citations, Wrtn, DDM-DCipher/1.0.7, bigsur.ai, DuckAssistBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ShapBot, Bytespider, CCBot, KlaviyoAIBot, omgili, TavilyBot, YouBot Blocking No — crawling allowed

# Ziff Davis content is made available for your non-commercial use subject to our
# Terms of Use here: https://www.ziffdavis.com/terms-of-use
# Use of any robot, crawler, or other tool to scrape, harvest, extract, or retrieve any content on
# this website using automated means is prohibited without written permission from Ziff Davis.
# Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single
# Market;
# (2) development or operation of artificial intelligence or machine learning software or
# databases, including by training, fine-tuning, embedding, and retrieval-augmented generation;
# (3) creating data sets containing our content or sharing it with others; and
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact licensing@ziffdavis.com for assistance.

# Bot Disallows
# Block AI and other unwanted bots

User-agent: AddSearchBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Anchor Browser
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-extended
User-agent: atlassian-bot
User-agent: AutoRAG
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: Big Sur AI
User-agent: bigsur.ai
User-agent: Brandwatch
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Channel3Bot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawl4AI
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Direqt Anomura
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Echobot Bot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: iAsk
User-agent: iaskspider
User-agent: ICC Crawler
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImageSiftBot
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
User-agent: Kunato
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: LinkupBot
User-agent: LINER Bot
User-agent: Manus-User
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: mistral.ai
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: Novellum AI Crawl
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PeopleInc-DCipher-Scraper/1.1.0
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: SeekrBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBotSwa
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: TavilyBot
User-agent: TwinAgent
User-agent: Velen Crawler
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: Wrtn
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: ZanistaBot
Disallow: /

# END Ziff Managed/Shared content

# Ziff Davis content is made available for your non-commercial use subject to our
# Terms of Use here: https://www.ziffdavis.com/terms-of-use
# Use of any robot, crawler, or other tool to scrape, harvest, extract, or retrieve any content on
# this website using automated means is prohibited without written permission from Ziff Davis.
# Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single
# Market;
# (2) development or operation of artificial intelligence or machine learning software or
# databases, including by training, fine-tuning, embedding, and retrieval-augmented generation;
# (3) creating data sets containing our content or sharing it with others; and
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact licensing@ziffdavis.com for assistance.

# Bot Disallows
# Block AI and other unwanted bots

User-agent: AddSearchBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Anchor Browser
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-extended
User-agent: atlassian-bot
User-agent: AutoRAG
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: Big Sur AI
User-agent: bigsur.ai
User-agent: Brandwatch
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Channel3Bot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawl4AI
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Direqt Anomura
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Echobot Bot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: iAsk
User-agent: iaskspider
User-agent: ICC Crawler
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImageSiftBot
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
User-agent: Kunato
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: LinkupBot
User-agent: LINER Bot
User-agent: Manus-User
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: mistral.ai
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: Novellum AI Crawl
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PeopleInc-DCipher-Scraper/1.1.0
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: SeekrBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBotSwa
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: TavilyBot
User-agent: TwinAgent
User-agent: Velen Crawler
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: Wrtn
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: ZanistaBot
Disallow: /

# END Ziff Managed/Shared content

# Ziff Davis content is made available for your non-commercial use subject to our
# Terms of Use here: https://www.ziffdavis.com/terms-of-use
# Use of any robot, crawler, or other tool to scrape, harvest, extract, or retrieve any content on
# this website using automated means is prohibited without written permission from Ziff Davis.
# Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single
# Market;
# (2) development or operation of artificial intelligence or machine learning software or
# databases, including by training, fine-tuning, embedding, and retrieval-augmented generation;
# (3) creating data sets containing our content or sharing it with others; and
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact licensing@ziffdavis.com for assistance.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.xml
Allow: /

User-agent: "008"
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: DDM-DCipher/1.0.7
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: HTTrack
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://lifehacker.com/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://lifehacker.com/sitemap-google-news-0.xml

sitemap.xml 200 OK

Type Sitemap Index URLs 88 entries Valid XML Yes

Child Sitemaps:

A+

Domain Intelligence

lifehacker.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 21 years, 11 months old

PASS

lifehacker.com — via CSC Corporate Domains, Inc., 21 years, 11 months old

Domain registered until Sep 8, 2029 (3 years, 5 months remaining)

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.

Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

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

1154 days

September 8, 2029

SSL certificate

60 days

Issued by Google Trust Services

Domain age

21 years, 11 months

Registered September 8, 2004

DNSSEC

Not enabled

Protects against DNS spoofing

Hosting

Unknown

2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2292

Registrar

CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Unlocked 2 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 CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.

Created September 8, 2004 (21 years, 11 months ago)

Expires September 8, 2029 (3 years, 5 months)

Last Updated April 9, 2024

Name Servers aria.ns.cloudflare.com, owen.ns.cloudflare.com

DNSSEC Not enabled

Hosting

IP Address 2a06:98c1:3101::6812:2292

Data source: rdap (0.0s)

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 44 ms — DNS, TCP, TLS, TTFB, content transfer breakdown

PASS

DNS Lookup

6 ms

TCP Connect

1 ms

TLS Handshake

8 ms

Time to First Byte

32 ms

Total Time

45 ms

Connection waterfall

DNS Lookup 6 ms TCP Connect 1 ms TLS Handshake 8 ms Server Processing 18 ms Content Transfer 13 ms

A+

CDN & Delivery

Cloudflare (HIT)

PASS

Cloudflare (HIT)

Site is served via Cloudflare CDN (edge: AMS)

Got: cf-ray: 9efed7f5f828d5a7-AMS

CDN cache status: HIT

CDN Detected: Cloudflare

Provider Cloudflare Cache Status HIT Evidence cf-ray: 9efed7f5f828d5a7-AMS